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Hello everyone. I realized the other day that I havn't posted anything in a long time. Lots has changed! My wife and I moved to Bay Area, California and have gone through a couple of aquarium changes as well.
I've just started a pair of 125 gallon outdoor aquariums from acrylic. Its the closest I'm willing to come to an outdoor pond in a rent house. So far only slim has moved outdoors, but in the next couple of weeks I'm hoping I'll have both southern painted turtles and both razorback musk turtles outside (1 of each in each aquarium).
For the first couple of years the 2 SPTs lived together and the 2 RMTs lived together, but I started having a bit of aggression between the razorbacks last year and so separated them. Granny got moved into a 29 gallon aquarium where she is currently and Blackbeard stayed with the SPTs in the 120 gallon tank. Granny mostly hangs out in one of the hideouts.
I've never had outdoor water turtles before, but its been really nice so far watching them swim around while we're outdoor eating or sitting. I know its quite a lot smaller than a typical outdoor pond at a total ~240 gallons at 2' depth, does anyone know how reasonable it is for everyone to stay out there as we get towards winter (which feels like it is forever away, but time seems to fly these days)?
Thanks for looking! Its good to be poking around the forums again.
I've just started a pair of 125 gallon outdoor aquariums from acrylic. Its the closest I'm willing to come to an outdoor pond in a rent house. So far only slim has moved outdoors, but in the next couple of weeks I'm hoping I'll have both southern painted turtles and both razorback musk turtles outside (1 of each in each aquarium).
For the first couple of years the 2 SPTs lived together and the 2 RMTs lived together, but I started having a bit of aggression between the razorbacks last year and so separated them. Granny got moved into a 29 gallon aquarium where she is currently and Blackbeard stayed with the SPTs in the 120 gallon tank. Granny mostly hangs out in one of the hideouts.
I've never had outdoor water turtles before, but its been really nice so far watching them swim around while we're outdoor eating or sitting. I know its quite a lot smaller than a typical outdoor pond at a total ~240 gallons at 2' depth, does anyone know how reasonable it is for everyone to stay out there as we get towards winter (which feels like it is forever away, but time seems to fly these days)?
Thanks for looking! Its good to be poking around the forums again.
