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This is a photo of my new 100 gallon indoor pond formed around a 100 gallon Rubbermaid stock tank. It has a Laguna Pressure Flow 1400 filter with an 11 watt internal UV bulb, a 900 GPH submersible pump. The entire pond area is lighted by a 125 Watt compact florescent grow light in an overhead fixture. The basking area is a large bamboo root. Over it is a 100 watt UVB bulb. The pond is sunk into an external structure that I built.

THAT IS FREAKIN' AWSOME!!! I'm quite impressed. we have indoor ponds but they sure aren't that fancy- congrats!
Beth
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If I were a turtle, I would want to live there.

Very nice.

I planned the project for about a month, and then worked like a banshee for about a week or ten days putting it together. It all started when I decided that my concentric diamond back was going to pretty soon outgrow it's 50 gallon aquarium. I contemplated selling him. Instead I sold some redfoot tortoises I've been keeping for many years, and have sucessfully breed. Used the money and the space freed up by that to do the indoor pond.

I was a little concerned by the "fatty daddy" filter you were using relative to the size of the stock tank. However, you've made the perfect choice for a Diamondback! Well done! You've obviously put a lot of research, labor, and expense into this project. Very inspiring.

Beautiful!!! I am very jealous!

Congrats on the very nice looking pond. I absolutely love those 100 gal rubbermaid agriculture tanks...I have one myself and it is the perfect size for multiple turts. If anyone is thinking about going larger for inside I highly recommend using them. You can get them at Tractor Farm and Feed stores as well as Tractor Supply Co - http://www.tractorsupply.com they run about $55 here in Pennsylvania. These go all the way up to 300 gallons!!! If you would like to find out pricing in your area visit http://tractorsupply.com/detail.asp?pcID=8&paID=1039&sonID=214&page=5&productID=15525 and you can punch in your zipcode and they can tell you the price in your area.

One tip I would suggest is this...all of these come with a drain plug built-in...I have had problems in the past with these stock drain plugs leaking, so what I did was went to Lowes or Home Depot and purchased a replacement METAL pipe end cap plug and then applied waterproof glue and silicon to the threads and treaded it in place. I never use the drain plug to clean my tanks, I just use my Python.

Something I may try next time is to get one of those gate valves, like you use for your hose on the outside of your house. This way you could hook a garden hose up to it and drain the water pretty quickly!

Any how I just love these tanks if you can't tell I do have one question though...do you have any pics of what the wooden enclosure looks like that you have it surrounded in? I would like to build something like this for one of mine.

PATurtsGuy
Chad W.
Rubbermaid Tanks

That's a sweet set-up