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I gave up on the 30 gallon that I bought for Scooter because he was miserable in it.
I started teaching the lab animal class again for the fall semester & one day last week my plans for lab fell through so I decided ok, let's talk about what's wrong or right with pet stores & books sold in them, then we went to one for a field trip.
Before we left I mentioned the one pet store in the neighboring town where the woman tried sooo hard to get a 40g breeder tank for me but could not.
One student asked about it, I described it, she said "I have one like that! I don't use it because I bought it a long time ago for crabs, the crabs died so I put it up in the attic."
I said "wanna sell it?"
She said as a matter of fact she's been planning to have a garage sale & was planning to sell that tank. She said it's like brand new she just has no use for it.
I said bring it in I'll buy it. Well she hasn't yet because she has to get someone to get it down from the attic for her (she might weigh 90lbs soaking wet) so I have to wait but yeah I'll take it.
Scooter still may get what I've wanted for him after all.
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PHRatz

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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PHWyvern

>>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.
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I wouldn't count on it surviving cross country. LOL
Thanks but since it could still be useful to you for I dunno say a small lizard, a frog, crab, something.. you may need it one day.

>>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.

That sounds really creative. Better than what I did. I bought Scooter a... shoot can't remember the brand name..Kordon??
anway it's a clear plastic ramp with green tread on it ramp goes one way the basking area kind of another.
Well the way it's built is too narrow for his wider body & so it didn't work at all. I stuck it in the painted's 55g under the water surface, he LOVES that thing b/c he can sleep on it while underwater but he only has to move his little head to get a drink of air LOL!

Do you have pictures of the poor injured mud? You know I always want pics.
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PHRatz