04-23-2008, 05:12 PM
emysemys@pacbell.net Wrote:As for keeping rescued water turtles, I use large water troughs that I bought at a feed store. I have one for the females and one for the males. I like to use the rubber troughs because I'm not sure if the poisons they use to weld the aluminum ones would leach toxins into the water. I put a clean cinder block in the middle and add water until it reaches the top of the cinder block. This leaves about 8" to the top of the trough and the turtles can't climb out. I only have them in there for a week or two, and if the water gets dirty, you just siphon it out and add clean.
Yvonne
If you use use rubber ones have you thought of putting a drain in the trough that way you could pull the drain and not have to worry about siphoning it. You just need to dig a little hole underneath the drain, so the water goes out. I was told they work well.