The rule of thumb when dealing with PROPERLY housing RES is to allocate ten gallons of water for every one square inch of turtle. Haveing 50 or 60 in a 100 gallon tank is not a good idea. They will get territorial under this kind of stress and start attacking eachother. Even if every turtle is only one inch, the most that should be in there is ten. And when they grow to two inches, only five should be in there.

It would be like putting you in a jail cell with twenty other people and expecting everyone to get along. I don't think they make a filter that can properly handle the poop of 60 turtles. This is just inhumane to keep them under these conditions.

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