Although I am content enough with the current set up for my juvenile mud turtle (Jacques), I have bigger plans. In another year or so when he's reached adult size, I plan to move him to a bigger tank that will be beautiful. It'll be more nicely landscaped and will have live plants in addition to the plastic ones. There will be ghost shrimp and a few fish. I'm hoping between lots of plants and a bigger tank, some of the shrimp and fish will be able to hide from him and survive. But even if he eats them, that's OK: they're all just bit players- the turtle is really the STAR of the tank.
I have been trying out different things in his current tank, but I don't think he shares my dreams. He typically digs up the plastic plants and moves them around, so that they are bunched together in a mess. At PetCo I recently found a plastic plant arranged like a mat and had a grid that could be pushed into the sand. I bought it, brought it home, rinsed it off and installed it, figuring he couldn't uproot it. The next morning, this is what I found:![IMG_8617.jpg IMG_8617.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/147/147431-c53ef4f816e58ab9f7fa4cb264b39f3a.jpg)
But WHO could be mad at that face????
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I have been trying out different things in his current tank, but I don't think he shares my dreams. He typically digs up the plastic plants and moves them around, so that they are bunched together in a mess. At PetCo I recently found a plastic plant arranged like a mat and had a grid that could be pushed into the sand. I bought it, brought it home, rinsed it off and installed it, figuring he couldn't uproot it. The next morning, this is what I found:
![IMG_8617.jpg IMG_8617.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/147/147431-c53ef4f816e58ab9f7fa4cb264b39f3a.jpg)
But WHO could be mad at that face????
![IMG_8617.jpg IMG_8617.jpg](https://data.www.tortoiseforum.org/attachments/147/147431-c53ef4f816e58ab9f7fa4cb264b39f3a.jpg)
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