Recent content by Alg8er

Just put a piece of white PVC with some holes over the heater.

My terrapin on his easy chair chillaxin.

Just use a magnetic glass cleaner.

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I still keep turtles. A pair of southern map, a painted, and a diamondback terrapin. My first turtles were red ear sliders. Had them in the 180 with a pair of 10 year old oscars. Mine were mellow, and the oscars would bite the edge of their shell and push them around the tank till they dropped...

That was 1988. The gator is long gone. Yes he outgrew the tank, was put in an indoor pond till he was about 5', then traded to a gator farm in Florida for another baby. Did that 2 times over the years. The farm got Gators used to being handled for their shows, so they were happy. I got tired of...

Only thing I'd disagree with is potential size. 8" is the common Max if raised properly. I've seen a lot bigger.

Thanks! Yeah, tons of work. The stingray was the easiest fish I had! Toss some shrimp or fish in every 2-3 days. He was in a 220, but needed bigger. The reef was an hour and a half every couple days, the octopus would only eat live crabs or shrimp, the moray had to be fed with a stick. Every day...

King of the tank today.

There was a huge serpent star too. He was about 18"

Unfortunately, my video and other pics got ruined over the years.

Meanwhile, across the room....

Unfortunately I couldn't deal with the constant red algae, so I went freshwater. 1988

the city secretly put additive in water to coat pipes because of lead. It was a phosphate and since this was before ro, it killed my reef. This was my next try.

180 gal reef tank in 1979