how often do you guys hav to clean out your terrapins tank? i have 2 baby terrapins, a yellow belly and a map turtle and there tank gets so dirty within 2 weeks, is this normal?? i use a filter and i also use biological aquarium supplement, water conditioner and water freshener.it just seems crazy how quickly it gets filthy!

Hi Hun, sounds like you need to get a better filter to me.

yea thats what i was thinking but my boyfriend has terrapins of same age and has the same filter and his causing no problem? im going to get new as soon as possible anyway, mine's probably faulty???

I have 4 YBS in a alrge tank with 2 filters going

I have to clean the filter sponges every week and a bit as it gets messy inside...if you want to make sure its crystal clean water then get an external filter, try get one thats made for cleaning a larger tank than yours, for example a 150ltr tank will be cleaned better with a filter for a 250ltr tank

Turtles are very messy creatures! My 4 make the filters I have go absolutely disgusting! But thats the joys of having them and I wouldnt change them for the world! They even eat out of my hands...Just the male 1 doesnt like my other half's brother, the only person he tried to bite haha!

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hello i clean my turtles out once a month as the filter i got is realy good pluss the water does not smell and i have 2 adults and a baby in there. pluss i go round with the net for any unwanted food or poo left floating around

Hi there it sounds like u need a bigger filter. I change my turtles tank once a month sometimes longer x

You need an external canister filter on a turtle tank, rated for at least 3 x the volume of water you actually have in the tank. e.g. if you have 100 litres of water, you want a filter rated to deal with 300+ litres.

Internal filters cannot hold the amount of bio-media required to cope with turtle waste.

Get a canister filter and fill it full of bio-media, I find Alfagrog to be the best.

Maps and YBS are strong swimmers so even as youngsters should have as much water as possible (deep) to utilise.