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#1959340
Miss Vicky
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Best Filter for FBT 
I have five FBTs in a 29 gallon tank that is about 50/50 land/water. The land portion was created by stacking large rocks to form a sort of retaining wall, then creating a ramp and land are from very coarse aquarium gravel and river rocks (don’t worry, the rocks are too big to be ingested) on one side of the tank. I keep roughly six gallons of water in the tank and do at least partial changes every 2-4 days and complete water changes and gravel rinsing every 1-3 weeks (depending on how much time I have). I also clean the filter sponges at least once a week and change them and the carbon every few weeks.
I’ve been using two ZooMed TurtleClean filters (either the 316 or 318 model, can’t recall which), but I can’t seem to keep the water clean. It very quickly develops a nasty looking opaque film on top, that sometimes appears as soon as the next day. Is there a better brand of filter to use or is my cleaning schedule just not adequate?
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02/25/09 11:58pm
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#1978373
Luv our Uro!
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Message To: Miss Vicky In reference to Message Id: 1959340
Best Filter for FBT
What type of water are you using in the tank?? We have a 10 gallon, 50/50 with river rock in the bottom and a turtle/rock huge rockwaterfall in the corner which houses the carbon filters. We do an 80% water change every month and add water, about 1/2 gallon at a time once a week. I only use spring water. We have had them for almost a year! Also, we have lots of pothos and some treated drift wood floating free in their because they like to play in and on it all. When we clean the tank completely, we spray down the white crusty stuff along the water line with vinegar and water and rinse well. Also, I do not let any dead crickets that they do not eat decompose in the tank?? If I miss one, I notice the water gets dirty quickly and smells funny. Hope any of this helps. If you have any questions, email me. I mostly am on the Uromastyx forum because the toads are so easy!
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04/01/09 10:14am
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#1978633
Firebellyboy
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Message To: Luv our Uro! In reference to Message Id: 1978373
Best Filter for FBT
I dont know what kind, all I know is that my old filter killed my toad because somehow, he swam 8 inches underwater, and got stuck underneath it, and drowned...
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04/01/09 07:06pm
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#1978924
Luv our Uro!
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Message To: Firebellyboy In reference to Message Id: 1978633
Best Filter for FBT
If you use a larger heavy filter, like the Terra Fauna reptofilter waterfall rock, and you place it in the tank first before and gravel so it is flat to all corners and the bottom I do not see how that could happen. The rock fills with water immediately and it is heavy. That said, FBT are curious little guys and they do check out everything in the tank!
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04/02/09 10:19am
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#1979390
Miss Vicky
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Message To: Luv our Uro! In reference to Message Id: 1978924
Best Filter for FBT
I use tap water treated with ReptiSafe and scoop out any dead crickets that I find when I have the time. I use a scraper to remove mineral deposits from the glass. I heat the tank in the winter and maintain a water temperature of about 73-75 degrees.
I’ve been keeping FBTs for about six years (and still have my first one) and they seem to be doing well and even bred recently, but I just can’t seem to keep the water clean. In retrospect, I really should have installed a divider in the 29 gallon before I upgraded my initial pair of FBTs from their old 10 gallon. It’s too late now but it sure would have made water changes easier.
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04/03/09 09:35am
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#1989701
Sallen
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Message To: Miss Vicky In reference to Message Id: 1959340
Best Filter for FBT
I use an under gravel filter plate to manage the physical debris and a Tetra 10i submersible filter for the chem and bio filtration. The Tetra is about $16 at petco and works in as little as 2in of water. Stay away fron the reptile version as it is $8 more and is exactly the same except for the cover plate on the top. With the water coming out of the top there is little chance the toads will ever get in there as it is usually about 4 inches above the water line. It makes a nice waterfall too which my toads love to sit under. Change the filter every 2 weeks and not every month as they recommend....I have Tetras in my tank and they are very happy with this setup.
Steve.
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04/20/09 10:47pm
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#1996305
Fly68
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Message To: Miss Vicky In reference to Message Id: 1959340
 Best Filter for FBT
Hello there, my name is Jon and I have a 55 gallon acrylic tank. The first 16 inches is land with live moss, tropical plants, and a carnivorous pitcher plant in it’s own container- a great way to get rid of dead crickets. The water side has lots of aquatic plants, big flat rocks, a water fall in the far right corner, and lots of fish- three clown loaches, a red tailed shark, three barbs, six fish with glowing red eyes, a long finned yellow plocostomus, a regular plocostomus, and guppies that are reproducing at an exponential rate. Oh, I also have ten fire bellies. OK, now for my filtration system. I have two filters- one pumps the waterfall and the other just moves water.I took two tupperware containers 8"x 8"x 6", drilled holes in the sides and tops, put a water pump in each and packed filter floss around the pumps and ran tubes from the pumps out into the tank- so the water has to go through the filter floss into the pumps and then out through the pumps exhaust. It took a few days for the water to clear up, but considering the biological load- I probably have 10 gallons of water- the filters are working great
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05/01/09 12:44pm
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#1996507
Bellle_foudre
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Message To: Fly68 In reference to Message Id: 1996305
Best Filter for FBT
WOW Thats alot of Bioload for such a small amount of water. I know from keeping my fish that you can never have too much filtration. All you can have is too much current, and there are easy ways to break up a strong current. I have a tetra whisper filter for a 20 gallon tank. And about 6 gallons of water in my tank. I break up the current with a small rock waterfall. I have 3 toads and they have an extremly large bioload themselves seeing as how I feed them quite often. I will be adding another filter soon so I can have more bio media for the benificial bateria to live on. My water stays pretty clean but I do do weekly water changes when I do all of my other tanks, so that might add to the clean water.
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05/01/09 07:10pm
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