How often do you manually clean their shells?

[ShellyTurtlesCats]

I have two diamondback terrapins. Their shells were awful looking due to buildup until recently. I took a toothbrush with salt paste and cleaned their shells well.

How often do you clean their shells and with what?

 

[Gerards]

I have two diamondback terrapins. Their shells were awful looking due to buildup until recently. I took a toothbrush with salt paste and cleaned their shells well.

How often do you clean their shells and with what?

I never clean their shells, it's a natural thing to have eagle growth in between sheds. It will all come off each time they shed and will look brand new again. You could add a UV sterilizer to help keep it from happening. Talk to the guys at the turtle room, they're masters of filtration.

 

[ShellyTurtlesCats]

The turtle room? Another forum or on here?

 

[Saleama]

The turtle room? Another forum or on here?

They do info videos and stuff. Very neat. Google them, you won't regret it.

 

[ShellyTurtlesCats]

Thank you!

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[Anthony P]

Thank you guys! You're the best!!

As far as filtration, the most knowledgeable person I have ever come across was gracious enough to write an article for our site a few months back.

Here is his great article: http://theturtleroom.com/blog/2012/11/16/the-complete-balanced-filtration-system/

And if you aren't sure if you want to read, check out his impressive bio:

Pete has been retired for 15 yrs, following a career in Engineering for a utility company which involved him with the design, operation and maintenance of industrial size dry-type filters and filter liquid separators for nearly 30 yrs. He has a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. Pete presently has a 66 lb common snapping turtle. After testing different types of media and aquarium filters, Pete has developed a complete balanced filtering system that requires very little maintenance, making filtering a large snapper very easy.

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And his Common Snapping Turtle is now 73 pounds, and it's a female!! He must know what he is doing to keep that water so crystal clear