[Nick 95 6sp]

I have one res ...he was almost 3" when I got it and most of its life lived in a 20gal Long tank. I just held up a plastic ruler to it and it's shell is over 10" long. I keep 6" to 8" of water depth for it in a 120 gal. tank that I just got recently, tank is 48"L X 24"W X 24"D. I collected a bunch of rocks from a nearby creek to make a sunning spot for it at one end where the overhead light gives it some heat; I set up the rocks so that dirt doesn't easily collect under the rocks, so the water spray bar I have pretty much washes away any dirt laying around for a short while. I also have large roundish gravel over most of the bottom, but just one layer so it doesn't collect dirt. I have a pretty aggressive filter on it since turtles make a lot of dirt, but it stays real clean with this filtration, no smells and sparkling clean water all the time. It pays to invest in aggressive filtration or it will get dirty and smelly. My filter is a large Penn-Plax Cascade canister filter which came with shutoff valves to make it easy to turn off and clean without loosing the suction prime for the pumps, so it's real easy to restart after cleaning. I turn the filter flow to very low while he eats since otherwise it sucks up too much of the food; after a few minutes of eating and it's all gone, I turn it back on high flow. Mine grew very well and was always healthy just feeding it dry prepared turtle foods; I give it Tetra ReptoMin, plus ZooMed Natural Aquatic Turtle Food (which comes in various sized pellets, so now mine is eating the big pellets), plus I add some Hikari Cichlid Gold fish food which he always liked from when he was little and I had cichlids, so I keep giving it to him; I give roughly one third of each; we also catch earthworms for it and it gobbles those down right away; if they're out I catch large cicadas and drop them into the tank when they're still buzzing around and he attacks it and rips it apart and eats it ...these turtles are more aggressive than I realized ...this one is not a member of the Slowsky family seen on Comcast commercials. When he got over 6" I started giving him some romaine lettuce once in a while since the lady at the pet store said he'd like it ...he eats that right up too. I'm convinced that if I fell into the tank, he'd try to eat me too.