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Not the best pics but I tried. I'll have the wife take some better 1's. Now..What a miserable day!!!!Woke up early to a rainy day, so figure I'll do some tank cleaning.I had an empty 55gal in the garage with 2 brand new 4ft reptisuns sticking out of the top.(still in the bag.)So I empty the spotted tank completely,hence the foggy water in the pics, and decide to take it out to the garage to spray it out and give everything a good wiping down.All goes fine,that 1 goes back down stairs and gets all set up again.So why not do the other 55 i have set up for a cpl RES I'm watching for the summer.Out to the garage and SMASHHHH, I drop the SOB on top of the empty 1 and new lights.@ tanks in millions of pieces,new lights will never light, top of 1 of them,shattered,and for good measure I step on a damn heater!That has to be the most expensive damn cleaning I've ever done.My 3 painted where looking at me like there wondering *hey, gonna clean us too*..NOOOOO. Ahhh, well hope ya all had a good 4th!

OH, man. Sorry to hear about your cleaning mishap. We've all been there. I cleaned fish tanks for six years when I was in college and my worst mishap had to be, I was driving with a 45-gallon trash barrel loaded with expensive fake coral that I was bringing back to the shop to bleach, when I hit a bump in the road, the tailgate of my truck flew open, and the whole barrel flew out of the back of the truck into the intersection I was driving through. Every single piece shattered. The cheapest piece was probably $50 retail and their were probably 20-25 pieces.

Thanks for the pics. Very pretty turtles!