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If I bought one of those 200 gallon plastic pond tubs to house my croc in for the next few months untill i built his new enclosure and i wanted to make half of the tub dry and the other half water what would you pro's reccomend or use as a divider?? Thanks for all the help.

You can make a platform so that you croc can crawl out onto it. Use cynder blocks or something of that nature to hold it up. Leave it open underneath so the croc can hide under there if needed. Crocs like their privacy as well.

Great Idea i didnt think about bulding a platform, it would give extra water space too the only thing i would probly have to do is build higher side walls were the platform will be at because the tub i would like to purchase is only about 3-4 feet deep hmmmmmm... =-O im excited on starting my project already!! =)

could just do lid set ups like these ... or make it 2 lids so that 1 opens up over the water area and 1 that opens up over the land area.

This makes it easy to set up lights and its nice and secure
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Great Lakes Zoological

opps, sorry here is a pic (i hope) if not the link is http://www.waterlandtubs.com/Media/transparent.gif

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Nice, i didnt know they made those water enclosures that big ive only seen the small and medium ones they should make them a bit wider tho. I hate seeing my baby basking and not beeing able to stretch out completely hes always cramped up with his tail folding to one side lol

The guy said the large ones are at least 8ft long x like 4ft wide

The med ones id say were like 5ft or 6ft x about 2ft wide ... and the small ones were probablt 3ft x 18"

The round ones, the guy had one set up as a fish pond with deck built around it ... the pond it self was probably a 6ft across

Not bad size at all ... I have been thinking about changing my croc set ups and down sizing ... put all the small crocs in tubs on a rack stacked 2 high, tubs like what your thinking .. I considered using the waterlands but shipping is just to expensive on them.

I emailed you a few days ago, did you get it?
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Also .. have you considered using something like a med sized tub just as the water area and building a deck land area around it?

use plywood as top layer around the tub, water seal the plywood, then put some astro turf over the plywood ... I did a set up like this years ago but instead of a tub I used a kiddie pool, it worked out pretty well.

You could do land area on all 4 sides .. on 3 sides or even just on 1 side ... anyway you like.

You could use a canister filter like a fuval fx5 or etheim thermo canister filter and hid the unit under neath the land area, hide all the plumbing under there also.
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Yea that was my idea with building the indoor enclosure i was planning on buying a large tub from a pond store and building a deck with a ramp on the top of the tub to house him in for now since hes still a bit small and in the mean while i was going to hire a framer to build me a large frame and a deck inside a room and use the large tub as his whole water area and make a seperate land area on the side of his tub im thinking of rubber lining the floors and walls inside the room and adding a few pounds of soil all around I wanted to test out laying some large patches of grass for his basking area and see how that works out maybe adding some rocks ontop of the grass under his main heat source that can absorb the heat and he can lay on hopefully if all goes well i should be done with my set up within the next few months.

We did a large enclosure for Dwarf Crocodiles kind of like that. This enclosure has a 3/4 osb floor with visquene over that, and the we built it up with dirt woodchips etc.. The water area was a kiddie type pool.

It can out pretty good but we recently removed the dirt woodchips and some large tree limbs ... we started having a bug problem within the enclosure and then even started growing these huge wild mushrooms. LOL Crazy! Bugs not so cool expecially since its a indoor enclosure. Not sure if the bugs originated from the bagged dirt we used or maybe from the tree limbs.

I probably wouldnt use dirt or tree limbs again unless I cook it all in the over first to make sure there is no bugs or anything like that.
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Hey John, I received your picture a few days ago i've just been busy with work lately I appreciate all the help, I checked out harbor freights the other day i like that store theyve got alot of good stuff I saw those solar panels you told me about also but i was thinking about just using some large ceramic heat lamps for now I've kinda changed my plans and decided to build the enclosure indoors and were i'll be puttin it i wont be getting much sunlight will see what happens tho.

We use waterlands largest tub to house animals up to 4ft. They work very well. We build a platform to fit over the land/nesting area and the rest of course is water that can be an excellent depth.

They have the added benefit of being very easy to drain.

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CDieter
'Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.'

Those are huge! Must have cost a fortune to have delivered!

From what im told the large exo-terra tubs are similar in size to the large waterland tubs, but the exo-terra's dont have the built in ramp and land area.
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Exo-terra makes some stock tanks now that are nice and not to pricey ... small med and large sizes, the labled as Exo-terra laguna I believe and they ran like $59 for the small, around $90 for the med, didnt get a quote on the large yet.

One good thing about them is that pet stores that carry exo-terra products can special order these tubs ... which means you dont have to spend a fortune on shipping like you would have to do on some other tubs like the waterlands, etc..

Yeah, just set it up simple with bricks ... if you really need it sectioned off tho you could try siliconing something into place as a divider, I have done aquariums like that using 1/4" plexi
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Thanks imm going to look into this too

Hey GLZ were u talking about these turtle terrariums? http://exo-terra.com/en/products/turtle_terrarium.php

no, there plastic stock tanks .... there not listed on that website, I kno as I also checked but they do exsist, a local pet store here called great lakes reptile sells them (http://www.greatlakesreptile.com)

The owner of the store told me that the rectangular ones are made in sice small, med and large ... also in a pretty big round size.
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