new stream in outdoor enclosure - Page 3

Chris Ralph · 29-07-2009, 08:33 PM

Wow. What a lovely place for them to live. Fantastic idea adding a stream and your tort seems to love it.
Chris

wolverine · 29-07-2009, 10:50 PM

Wow thats really nice,looks like there out in nature

Lolly8 · 29-07-2009, 11:11 PM

Brilliant!It's really beautiful!Lucky torts!

Terryo · 30-07-2009, 04:24 AM

Thank you for the nice compliments...My son did it for me. He put a rubber liner starting from the top where the water fall is all the way down to the little pond. Then he put stuck the waterfall rocks with black cement that he used to make the long stream. When it was dry he just put some river rocks from the dollar store, in the stream. Everything costs about 15 dollars. Berfore the cement dried, he put a hole in the pond section, and put a little pump in there with a long tube going around the back of the enclosure to the water fall. He covered the hole with a piece of slate. The pump was only 30dollars. So the whole thing cost me about 50 dollars.

Pussygalore · 30-07-2009, 08:03 AM

can I ask if the pump is also a filter or do you have to keep changing the water? in an ideal world I'd run a stream across the tort garden but I think it would be to costly

anna m · 30-07-2009, 11:03 PM

That is a brillant enclosure and a beautiful tortoise

Terryo · 01-08-2009, 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pussygalore

can I ask if the pump is also a filter or do you have to keep changing the water? in an ideal world I'd run a stream across the tort garden but I think it would be to costly

It is a little pump with a filter attached to it. I just take it out and clean the pad. I haven't done it yet and it seems to be still clean. The whole thing only costs about 50 to make with the filter too.

hevngus · 03-08-2009, 10:11 AM

that is fantasic!!!

lucky lucky torts

Cathers · 03-08-2009, 07:50 PM

wow thats amazing, what a fantastic idea and enclosure

kellybibby · 03-08-2009, 11:40 PM

looks really good!

29-07-2009, 11:11 PM	#23
Lolly8 Senior Member Adult Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Stoke on Trent Posts: 5,276	Brilliant!It's really beautiful!Lucky torts! __________________

30-07-2009, 04:24 AM	#24
Terryo Junior Member Egg Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 22	Thank you for the nice compliments...My son did it for me. He put a rubber liner starting from the top where the water fall is all the way down to the little pond. Then he put stuck the waterfall rocks with black cement that he used to make the long stream. When it was dry he just put some river rocks from the dollar store, in the stream. Everything costs about 15 dollars. Berfore the cement dried, he put a hole in the pond section, and put a little pump in there with a long tube going around the back of the enclosure to the water fall. He covered the hole with a piece of slate. The pump was only 30dollars. So the whole thing cost me about 50 dollars. __________________ 7 box turtles, 2 Chihuahua's, 1 Yorkie, 2 Cherry Head RF's. my son: http://grapefulminds.com/ Terry

03-08-2009, 07:50 PM	#29
Cathers Member Hatched Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Wiltshire Posts: 336	wow thats amazing, what a fantastic idea and enclosure __________________

03-08-2009, 11:40 PM	#30
kellybibby Member Incubating Join Date: May 2009 Location: Wigan Posts: 187	looks really good! __________________ 1.0.0 Testudo Hermanni Hermanni, Percy 0.1.0 Testudo Hermanni boettgeri, Thomas 0.1.0 Horsefield, Henry 0.2.0 Yellow Bellied Slider Turtles, Alvin and Simon 0.0.1 African Grey, Jack

29-07-2009, 08:33 PM	#21
Chris Ralph Member Hatched Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 326	Wow. What a lovely place for them to live. Fantastic idea adding a stream and your tort seems to love it. Chris

29-07-2009, 10:50 PM	#22
wolverine Junior Member Egg Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Franklin P.A. Posts: 36	Wow thats really nice,looks like there out in nature

30-07-2009, 08:03 AM	#25
Pussygalore Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Cambridge Posts: 6,479	can I ask if the pump is also a filter or do you have to keep changing the water? in an ideal world I'd run a stream across the tort garden but I think it would be to costly

30-07-2009, 11:03 PM	#26
anna m Senior Member Adult Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Hertfordshire Posts: 4,091	That is a brillant enclosure and a beautiful tortoise

03-08-2009, 10:11 AM	#28
hevngus Member Egg Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: west yorkshire Posts: 79	that is fantasic!!! lucky lucky torts

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