How To- Above Tank Basking Dock
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- čas přidán 21. 09. 2015
- Apologies that this is not a 100% step by step tutorial. I do not have a big sheet of egg crate in order to do that but if you have any questions please feel free to message me and ask away!
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When to Lowes right after watching this video brought the egg crate build one. Left the room came back and my Turtle was already basking on the dock. Just perfect!!! Thank You.
Chris Rangel I thought so too
My turtle loves this, so much. I made it for a three pound 7inch turtle that is a beyond stubborn bask-er. She only ever had a plateform, but she needed a topper. She LOVES deep water because she spends most of her time diving (no joke... she jumps off her basking area and does not use the ramp to dive. The bigger the splash, the more noise she makes to get my attention to praise her lol). Anyway! I made this, and she did not use it. I then added some carpet to it, and now it is her favorite thing ever. Every single time I look in the tank, she is on her basking topper. She will stick her nose against it to get treats, and will even shove the top up (I made a lid) to get attention. I put a plant on it on the outside too to help give her some privacy. I have bought every single topper out there, and made some crazy ones. However, this is the only one she ever used. It is awesome, and a great idea. I cannot believe how sturdy it is, and that I can put my lights right on top! It took me only 3hr to completely made it, measure, and design it.
Thank you so much for posting this video! I went to Lowes today and bought some egg crate. My hubby built it for me. My turtle has been on and off it continuously. She clearly loves it! What a great idea!
Thanks so much for making this video. My turtle loves this basking dock and the tank is much cleaning now! This was a great solution for me!
i made this a week or so ago and i love it!!! took me about an hour or so to make it and its perfect!! So much cheaper than the premade ones. and i think this looks a lot better. thinking of adding some plants in the platform for my turtles to munch on above water. or shade if they dont want to be in the water. so many options!! thanks so much for sharing!!
I love your idea. God bless you. and thank you for making my turtles 100x happier.
Amazing idea. I was wondering for so long to find solution for my turtle. I have small tank but turtle is growing pretty fast. For now i want to keep him this small one.
Now im gonna make this for him. I am absolutely happy.
Thank you again.
Thanks for the video! Douglas loves his new dock
Amazingly simple way to create more swimming space without hitting my wallet too hard. Thank you so much, will be trying this week!
thank you for this video, i bought the eggcrate on amazon cuz lowes didn't have it for some reason. and the ones i got were cut already so i was having a hard time figuring out how to make the basking area, but your video helped me a lot to get an idea
I'm going to make one with 2 entrances and connect 2 tanks
Thats an interesting idea.
You video was just what I needed to see.👍
Thanks for the video. Got an idea from your video on basking area
very clever! thank you so much for this. will go hunt the egg crate now :)
they are climbers! i have two red ear sliders and i had a basking area in the corner and i caught them trying to climb out of the tank! definitely going to try this.
Wow !!! Thanks for posting.
i just made one of these.. thanks for the idea! i posted the video on my channel. credited you in the description
Perfect just what i needed.
Thanks for this. I used it for my 75 gallon bow front tank. All other store bought basking areas won't fit it unless they are floating and my guy is too big for those.
love it! thank you. I will try to build one :)
I really like this idea! What's the best way to attach the lighting to this?
Very nice and simple, cant believe I never thought of that. But I also just find out there were something call "Penn-Plax Turtle Topper Above Tank Basking Platform," gonna try it first, if it fail and your video is very helpful
I just ordered one, should get it tomorrow. How did yours work out, was thinking of making one instead. Was a lil pricey 34$, if they don't use it what's the point.
great idea I was trying to figure out how too attach plexy glass t it I might just do it that way'
Do you need to cover the ramp with any type of terrarium cover? Do they try to eat the plastic? Can you buy screen just for the top
I'm doing one for a 40 gal breeder. It's wider so how many sheets did you use. I bought two just in case. I'm planning on doing it half the tank maybe less. But I wanna do a little hanging platform underneath. I got that Penn plax basking dock they sell online and they love the platform on the bottom to sleep on at night. Problem is the basking house is to small for the tank and they are to big to be on the platform together so they squeeze in on it. So would one sheet be good
How sturdy is the egg crate? We have a cooter who's pretty big (she's 25 years old). Roughly 6-7 inches long.. Also, we have a flat top tank with no lip. Is there a good way to keep the dock from sliding?
Wow how many tanks do u have? Looked like 4.. Must've been a ton load of money, and do you have to clean out the tanks or does the filter completely take care of that?
How do you get your sliders to like going in the deeper water to swim. Mine kinda panics when he can’t touch the bottom.
Thank you
do your turtles eat your fish? I have gold fish in my tank and have had to separate the turtle and the fish
so do your turtles eat the cickletes
Thatss soo interesting.. what's the name of ingredients of this dock? Where we want to buy?
Can you give us a link of where you buy the Crate
doesnt the egg crate melt with the heat lamp?
hello I am from central europe what is best way to get these eggcrates?
Thanks for the video!
I thought that turtles would eat the fish 😮
We have Red ear sliders. Would it be wise to put some fish inside their tank?
Thanks again
andrei parsot R.E.S eat all fishes. I have gold fishes in mine...there still living, just don't buy expensive ones lol
Thank God for you, lol. But I looked on ebay and saw the crates in blue and black
diwali pooja vidhanam gurinchi
What are any types of fish that can be added to a red ear slider tank?
Edible ones..jk😂😂😂😂😂😂has to be fast.
Hi what if you don't have a lip on your tank , mine is just glass
cradleygirl you can make the eggcrate a little bigger and make your own lip with smaller parts of the eggcrate
Can you post your filtration system for the 55-gal.? Also, what substrate and plants are thos?
Marc Mann they are marineland canister filters. The substrate is play sand and all the plants are fake. Only real decoration in it is the driftwood
@@xsarabearx1 Hi, I have some questions about maintaining the cleanliness of an aquatic turtle tank, and yours looks super clean. Could you private message me and discuss please? I have a red eared slider, about 7 years old, and even with an over powered filter, its tank gets dirty within 3 weeks. I'm curious to know what you do, and be able to have those little fishies too. Thank you very much!
I want to build one for my corner aquarium. Did you say you cut it with scissors?
I have a black and decker tool kit and I used to cutting pliers. It was super easy. I just snipped down the row I needed and it was a clean cut. I trimmed and filled the edges because they can bevome sharp.
just curious, would you be interested in taking in 3 red eared sliders?? Im going away to college and Ive been looking for a good home to send them to that will take good care of them. They would come with everything, two tanks (40 g breeder, 75 g), lights and two canister filters
Victoria Chu I would🤔
I can take them.i have the exp to keep them happy.and can provide photos of my other set ups
I could even offer you a rehoming fee
@@abbyq4032 can i have a kiss babe 😘
secretdeath ?🧐
Great video, nice tank. Where did you find so cheap egg crate because at my local home depot it's only sold in $80 5 packs and I only need for one tank.
Home depot should sell it individually. $13 on the HD site if you search for egg crate.
I went to my home depot in hawaii and they don't carry any egg crate );
Tru Alpha808 You could try and do an online order at homedepot website and do an in store pick up. Or double check with home depot to see if you can open the box and just buy one. At home depot a lot of items can be bought in packs or split up just to get the one. Like deck spindles, hanging ceiling tiles, floor tiles, some light bulbs, etc. Just ask.
ebay
Tru Alpha808
I sells for $13.00 per sheet at home depot.
what kind of yellow turtle is it?
How do you keep the tank so clean? Lol, mine clouds up way to quick. I took out the rocks on the bottom. I have a large filter always running. And don't really clean out the food cause they just eat that stuff up faster than I can feed them. Any advice
What filter are you using? A large canister filter or one of those 'large' internal filters? Ull most likely need a decently sized canister or sump if you want non cloudy water.
Feeding them in a seperate tank also keeps the tank water way cleaner. Turtles eating in the tank clouds up the water even more so than their waste.
@@t0x1cd I have a Penn plax 1000 canister
I have a red eared slider that has been eating most of my fish. I have now resorted to buying the cheap feeder goldfish to add life to my tank. Any thoughts on what fish do well with aquatic turtles?
I have African Malawi Cichlids with mine. They are agressive enough to make her back off and even will try to take food out of his mouth.
Thanks Keith! That is very helpful.
Goldfish aren't really all that healthy. I'm sure you can get away with it every once in a while, but never give them too much. Feeder guppies are better. :D
Rudi Engel what is the age of ur turtle I mean its size
if you do can you make a video I have to lovebrid not train and scared
Would this work for bigger turtles. I have 3 red ear sliders and two bigger ones are about 6inch in length if not bigger
Michael Riley
Yeah, my RES is 23 yrs old and around 6-7 inches and I use this same method. I have a 100 gallon tank so I used half of the top as the basking area. If your turtle is super strong and aggressive like mine then you will prob have to replace it once a year because they will beat it up and loosen the zip ties.
damn bro mine is about 5 to 6 years old and he is already 8 inches (and thats only the shell length)
yeah they get pretty big fast
Where do you buy the stuff to make the basking box?
any hardware store should have it.
how is the material called?
do you have brids
what kind of fish do you have with you sliders? I thought you couldn't have fish in the tank with them??
You could. If you don't mind never finding a few of them again. :/
Keeping fish with turtles is always a bit risky; of course it depends what type of fish you house with them. I think cichlids are probably the best to keep with turtles since they're very alert, fast and aggressive. I have 3 so far and my turtle surprisingly has gotten used to them. My blue african cichlid is able to get right in her face, and she just looks at him. But that doesn't mean a turtle won't still attempt to eat a cichlid. So it could potentially happen. But overall I've had a good experience with them; the only fish I wouldn't recommend are slow, lethargic fish like Plecos. In my experience, I had one completely eaten.
Can you put algae eaters in with sliders?
J&M Custom Crafts no. I put one in and mine completely ate it. I wouldn’t
looki in to diy sump filter its great
my sliders , did not eat as they were street bought babies and would not eat untill i found some live brind shrimp then i switched to green petshop pellets and they were hungry all the time and grew maybealmost eight inches in a little more than 1 or 1.5 years. make your own food add cruched calcium rind up in a majick bullit green and any meat like beef or chicken and dont feen in tank feed in little 1' bt 8' to about 5in high wait an hour and hope they did their business and use that water for plants, petco has 3.5 in african side necks and love to bask all day . they are mellow and are not begging for food all the time like sliders, and they can grow depending on feeding 9 in in a 30 gal and in the wild they are big
oh no not hybrid. shouldnt change Malawi or Tanganyika lake ciclids keep them pure. read on how the variations and the how fast they they evolved from tamganica spilling into the newer lake malawi , its great dicovery channel. peice. and you will know all is of evolution and at times it is slow taking millions of years and some like the malawi ciclids was very fast
what is this called that plastic i want to buy where to find it
home depot or lowes has them in the lighting section, they are egg crate light difusers they have chrome ones also but look for the white ones
Built mines 3 days and my redear haven't been in there yet smh
it won't tip over?
Not if it sits snug on top
What it this?
Get rid of that old light hood and buy some LED lighting strips.
James Mclean are you going to pay for it?
lol, no but led light strips are dirt cheap on amazon and you can change the colors too.xsarabearx1
Lola Little
Really? Is this the part where I say duh? Next time look up what a recommendation is before posting.
Lola Little How about no?
James Mclean you know he/she is right tho. ur comment is worded in the form of a demand, not a recommendation