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Alright, this may be a stupid question, but it has always been buggin me. For my herps I am limited to using tanks as I'm 16 and my mom is female dog, lol.

What I always believed to be ten gallon tanks look to small to hold ten gallons of water, so I have the dimensions:

L 20
H 10
W 12

And my main quesiton, my so called 50 gallon hexagonal tank. I don't think its really a 50 gallon, so maybe you guys can help:

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0.0.1 Eastern Painted Turtle
0.0.1 Indonesian Blue Tongue Skink
0.2.0 Leopard Geckos
0.0.1 Northern Water Snake

np
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0.0.1 Eastern Painted Turtle
0.0.1 Indonesian Blue Tongue Skink
0.2.0 Leopard Geckos
0.0.1 Northern Water Snake

If you go to repticzone.com they have that info you put in your dementions and you have the equal to tank size, they also have F*&C* converstions and other helpful things.
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My roomates are2 boas, 4 corns,Rotti,3cats and snake food AKA the food chain.

12" by 20" by 10"high = 10gal.
The other is a 20gal.
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rbichler

231 cubic inches per gallon is all you need to know.

>>What I always believed to be ten gallon tanks look to small to hold ten gallons of water, so I have the dimensions:

>>L 20
>>H 10
>>W 12

20" x 10" x 12" = 2400 cubic inches

2400 divided by 231 = 10.39 gallons.

Now you probably provided the outside dimensions so the tank probably holds slightly less than 10.39 gallons.

>>And my main quesiton, my so called 50 gallon hexagonal tank. I don't think its really a 50 gallon, so maybe you guys can help:

I'm not going to write out all the math here.

But if all sides are indeed equal to 10 inches then the tank has a volume of 6235 cubic inches.

That's equal to about 27 gallons.

I don't think the tank calculators previously mentioned include hexagon tanks so I did the math by hand.

Hope this helps.
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Current snakes:

1.1 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Silver/Yellow)

3.4 Gonyosoma oxycephala - (Green)

2.1 Gonyosoma janseni - (Black)

i dont know what this board would do without ya chris