okay so today we're going to be going over and setting up a basic turtle aquarium we're gonna be setting it up this is the little guy right here he's a tiny little red eared slider he's a hatchling he's just barely I don't know if you can see here with against my hand he's just an itty bitty thing maybe maybe a little bit bigger than a quarter he was actually a rescue he was stuck to a glue trap for mice and a husband of a co-worker to bring him in and we're actually gonna be giving it away to someone and I'm gonna help him set up there a nice aquarium so this is what we're going to be working with today I have our 10 gallon aquarium for this size turtle it's plenty enough for him he's gonna have plenty of space you'll even have room to grow for a little while they do grow fast so it's not a permanent setup but it would work great for the size that he is right now there for at least a couple months we have our substrate we have grab we'll just regular aquarium gravel ready to go we have a filter which is a 10 gallon filter which is enough to run a 10 gallon but considering we're not gonna have the full thing filled up it's going to be more than enough considering turtles are relatively messy pets so it'll be over filtration which means his water quality will stay nice and clean ensuring that he stays healthy we've got a little place for him to hide nothing crazy we've got a lid to keep less to keep him in but more to keep other animals and pets out and there's got some nice decorations man it's an artificial just to spruce it up a bit and then you can't go wrong without pet food now normally when you set up a pet turtle right eared slider or anything of the sort you normally you have to have proper lighting you have to have a proper heat bulb then you have a prepped of a you have to have a proper UVB bulb which gives them the proper vitamins and minerals and stuff they need that they'd normally get in direct sunlight but the person getting giving this - I've already talked to and they're going to keep him by a window and for at least a while during the warm summer months he'll be more than okay sitting by the window getting all natural sunlight we are brand-new opened up took it out of the cardboard packaging brand-new 10 gallon aquarium I think we're gonna start adding some and as you go over right up to the top now what we're going to do is we're going to go through and we're gonna put in his little half log because I'm something to hide in if he ever feels like he needs to and it's something for him to climb over turtles like to climb and we're also want to put his rock in here because this is a great spot for him to get up and bask on so what I did is first of all I decided I want to rotate this around and put it facing it forward that way I can have a little bit of a steeper slope on down and I put this big rock right here with a nice drop-off because that's where the waters going to be up to right there so he'll be able to sit right there on the edge of the water and the way Turtles do is they'll just go up right down into the water and will swim around and he'll have a blast so now what we got to be before we add the plants we want to make sure we put the filter in first and then we can use the plants to kind of decorate make everything look nice hide the filter of it make it look a little more fancy and cool here we have it we have the filter we put it in the corner back here I think it'll be fine right there I think it yeah substitute suction cups on so it came with this nice little bracket me hanging on the stand here it'll work great we will put our plants [Applause] [Applause] so we got the plants in they came with two big plants that were all one piece the long pieces fell off of this I kind of stuck it in with this piece over here had a little bit more color and then it had some little bitty tiny green ones I'm thinking or gonna stay here they should I think that kind of adds a little bit of unique color to it we've got a little plant up here up on the dry land it looks to be a pretty and nice right here and we had a little bit of trimming we just get it fell off but just kind of shoved it through pull it back here I think it's gonna look really cool alright slap the lid on here to make it look a little bit more finished and pronounced but the last thing to make it really perfect for the turtle we gotta add water as you can hear that's a pump going got some water going I already put my dechlorinator in there make sure every time whether you have fish or aquatic reptiles or anything that has to do with water when you plan on using it from the tap and make sure you get a water conditioner it's used to get rid of the chlorine and the other things that are harmful to your pets though I do believe the water is well cycled now if the the chlorinators been flown through the pumps been running for a couple minutes I think it would be safe to go ahead and introduce him to his new home alright we're going to add them in here [Applause] there we go exploring [Applause] [Applause] all right there we have it we have this pump going we got plenty of decoration plants we got water it's plenty deep enough for his size look at heat I told you he'd like to combat oh there he goes I'll see if he does the thing on his own so you'll see how these Turtles will do they'll actually take their neck and use it as a lever and they'll turn and flip themselves over he's a little tired right now I might have to help him but you can see the idea he'll take his neck and he should just do it on us there he goes see all by himself so if you liked this video comment what you want to see if you have any questions on raising baby turtles this one's already at slaughter if you have any questions in particular I can give you my best input and if you have any advice you feel free to drop it down in the comment section you