Good luck. I'd give you my 40 breeder except it doesn't hold water anymore (would have to have silicone ripped out and redone on the inside) and I doubt you'd like the shipping cost halfway across the country LOL...assuming it survived being shipped ROFL.



Not too long ago we got an eastern mud in from a rehabber. The turtle had been run over... shell is crushed - about 40% of it. He definitely can't go back to the wild. There was some bad nerve/spinal damage. He mostly drags himself around with his front legs...very rarely does he use the back legs. So this weekend I've been refurbishing a 55 gallon tank for him (& he'll have a stinkpot for company). I siliconed a piece of plexi in place to divide the land and water areas. In deference to the mud turtle's problem, it's only gonna have a water depth of no more than 4 inches. I will be using a few paving bricks (the kind that are half the height of a normal brick) for easy stepping stones in the water area so the mud can get to the surface easy for air. I also created a handicap ramp out of another piece of plexi. I then got creative with the ramp... I smeared silicone all over the one side and then used a plastic spoon to smack the silicone to create rough 'peaks' all over it. Then I covered it in sand so that there is (or should be) a permenant textured surface. Even if the sand doesn't stick in the long run, the peaks in the silicon should create a surface that is easy to grip that the turtle should be able to pull himself up it onto land using just his front legs. Tomorrow I'm gonna check the seals to make sure the water doesn't seep into the land side, then I'll fill in the land area. Still gotta get a small under water filter for the water area.
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