Tilford's 100 Gallon Stock Tank Indoor Enclosure
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100 Gallon Rubbermaid Stock Tank 'sunk into' a substructure Tilford built with materials from Home Depot & Lowe's.
Filtration: Laguna 1400 Pressurized Filter with 11 watt internal UV-sterilizer & a 900 GPH submersible pump.
Lighting: 125 watt compact fluorescent 'grow light' in an overhead suspended lamp. There's also a 100 watt UV-B mercury vapor bulb in a clamp lamp (note the white ceramic socket on the clamp lamp) hung from a ZooMed Repti Lamp Stand over a larger bamboo root. There's an additional 15 watt 'grow light' for plants.
300 watt submersible heater.
Substrate: Crushed Coral (Note: appropriate for Diamondback Terrapins, but not all turtles).
Inhabitants: 1 male Concentric Diamondback Terrapin , 3 African Cichlids (? type) & an 'algae eating fish' (? Pleco.?).
Photo: Tilford.
Filtration: Laguna 1400 Pressurized Filter with 11 watt internal UV-sterilizer & a 900 GPH submersible pump.
Lighting: 125 watt compact fluorescent 'grow light' in an overhead suspended lamp. There's also a 100 watt UV-B mercury vapor bulb in a clamp lamp (note the white ceramic socket on the clamp lamp) hung from a ZooMed Repti Lamp Stand over a larger bamboo root. There's an additional 15 watt 'grow light' for plants.
300 watt submersible heater.
Substrate: Crushed Coral (Note: appropriate for Diamondback Terrapins, but not all turtles).
Inhabitants: 1 male Concentric Diamondback Terrapin , 3 African Cichlids (? type) & an 'algae eating fish' (? Pleco.?).
Photo: Tilford.
