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I put the finishing touches on the new 180 gallon plywood aquarium today. We moved to Albuquerque a month or two ago and bought a house, so I got to put a nice big aquarium right near the front door. Its 3/4" plywood sealed on the inside with pond armor and silicone and decorated/reinforced with walnut hardwood trim. The tank is 6' x 2' x 2' and has LED lightning and an MVB UV/heat source on a 12 hour timer. The topper is extruded aluminum with acrylic windows and the basking platform is some scrap cherry hardwood. Eventually the 2x4 frame on the bottom will get a walnut/maple wrap to make it all look nice and clean.
This is a close up of the basking platform and cross bracing. The black PVC on the left are the two intakes for the twin canister pumps.
Three of the four year and half old map turtles were hiding because of all the activity with getting the backing platform in, but this guy was out exploring.
I'm a little concerned about the rock stack being too close to the surface to the right of the basking platform. The map turtles dive for cover really quickly when they're out and someone/something moves. I've seen them with smaller dives into the water hit the front of their shells or their head on plants/rocks/glass, but it seems like this is a bigger jump and so I ought to move the rocks. Any opinions on the matter?
Thanks for looking!
This is a close up of the basking platform and cross bracing. The black PVC on the left are the two intakes for the twin canister pumps.
Three of the four year and half old map turtles were hiding because of all the activity with getting the backing platform in, but this guy was out exploring.
I'm a little concerned about the rock stack being too close to the surface to the right of the basking platform. The map turtles dive for cover really quickly when they're out and someone/something moves. I've seen them with smaller dives into the water hit the front of their shells or their head on plants/rocks/glass, but it seems like this is a bigger jump and so I ought to move the rocks. Any opinions on the matter?
Thanks for looking!