Red Ear Slider Turtle Pond. This guy built a huge pond in his backyard and its quit the elaborate design.
Archive for the ‘Slider Turtles’ Category
125 Gallon Slider Turtle Tank
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on July 13th, 2010
This is a video of my 125 Gallon Slider Turtle Tank. It shows my Red Ear Slider Turtle, my Yellow Belly Slider Turtle, Angel fish, Danios, Pleco, Bala Shark, Iridescent shark, Rainbow sharks and more.
Yellow Belly Slider Turtle
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on July 12th, 2010
I went to Mr.Pets tonight to pickup a bottle of cycle the good beneficial bacteria for my 125 gallon tank. While walking by some fish tanks I spotted a cute little yellow belly slider turtle in the tank. Check him out he’s so cute.
Firemouth Cichlid, Large Angelfish Lips and Calcium Blocks
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on May 7th, 2009
I have not posted any articles here for a while as I’ve been busy with other projects and blogs but since I have some new pictures I thought I would post them up. My large angelfish in the 45 gallon tank has had large swollen lips for a few weeks now so I did some [...]
Posted in Fish and Dwarf Frogs, Slider Turtles 
Tags: Calcium Blocks, Firemouth Cichlids 
No Comments »Do The Research Before Buying Slider Turtles
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on February 17th, 2009
Today at lunch after eating my friend and I were driving around and spotted a small pet shop that we haven’t been in before. We decided to stop and walk in to check it out. We went inside and asked the clerk where the fish were held. The pleasant clerk pointed us to the back [...]
New Ceramic Heat Lamp, Algae Wafers, and Shrimp Pellets
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on February 13th, 2009
I stopped by Pet land after work today and picked up a 100watt heat lamp to replace the heat bulb they broke last night. This ceramic one should have a longer life span and also not burst when cold water hits it as I suspect that’s what happened to my other bulb by one of [...]
Posted in Setup & Maintenance, Slider Turtles Tags: Algae Waffers, Heat Lamp, Shrimp Pellets No Comments »Oh My, Broken Heat Bulb?
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on February 12th, 2009
OH MY! I was just about to go to sleep when I noticed some funny looking things on the bottom of my turtle tank. I looked closer and I was like what the heck, there are pieces of glass in the tank. I looked around and was confused, how did pieces of glass get into [...]
The Python NO SPILL is A Good Aquarium Tool
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on November 23rd, 2008
I changed the water in all my aquariums yesterday and used the Python NO SPILL which made it a breeze. The Python NO SPILL is a 25 foot hose with an adapter at one end that attaches to your sink faucet. The adapter allows you to add and drain water from your aquarium with no [...]
Ammonia is down and My Turtles Have Duckweed To Eat
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on November 19th, 2008
My ammonia is down and my turtles have duckweed to eat now. I added Zeolite Ammonia Remover to my XP3 filter and now 6 days later my ammonia level has dropped to a good rating. As you can see from the image to the left, the vile on the right is yellow which is today’s reading where as the one [...]
Fish Tank Water Changes, Filter Cleanings, and New Lyre Tail Platy
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on October 29th, 2008
I’ve done some maintenance on my fish tanks and filters the last few weeks so everything seems to be going good. The only filter that still needs cleaning is the auxiliary filter in my turtle tank. The main purpose of this filter is to remove any large particles of dirt and poop from the turtles. [...]
Posted in Setup & Maintenance, Slider Turtles Tags: Fish Tanks Water changes, water testing 1 Comment »Running Two XP4 Filters on My Turtle Tank
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on August 24th, 2008
I like having my water in my tanks really clean so Ichanged the water in my turtle tank 2 days ago but noticed that there was till some small bits of debris floating around. Now usually this was not anything to big to worry about but since I did get an extra XP4 filter a [...]
New Slider Turtle Basking Light Bulbs
Posted by Bart Piotrowski on August 20th, 2008
My slider turtle basking light bulbs both burned out yesterday so I stopped by the pet store on the way home and picked up a new set. I’ve had my slider turtles for over a year and and half now so I’ve gone thru a few of these already but this is normal I believe. [...]
