I’ve been thinking 10-11” high for my T5 uvb light but just looked up this chart from Reptisun and it actually seems like it’s saying somewhere between 6 to 8 inches high? Could this be true? Including a picture of the bulb that I bought.
I need to find risers that put it at the right height — something I have been wrestling with for literally a year and a half now. It’s ridiculous how few options there are for appropriate adjustable lampstands for these.
If you’re considering buying an LG appliance, please know that we spent hundreds of dollars on a new microwave and it has literally never reliably worked. It failed repeatedly since soon after we bought it. They sent technicians out repeatedly, the technicians they sent out no-showed repeatedly, and then they fixed it for tiny bits of time and it would fail again. The techs that did come told us horror stories about LG appliances having constant issues. I’ve spent hours of my life messaging them.
I was sure that eventually we would check all their boxes and they would just replace the unit, since it was obviously faulty (right???). I thought the months of my life without a microwave was just an annoying high cost to finally getting a functional unit. However, quiet fears began creeping up because of the run around. Those fears were unfortunately confirmed: they were just running out the clock on our warranty. Our microwave died again recently and they let me know they no longer had to fix it! The same microwave that has never worked reliably and has experienced the exact same problem repeatedly since we bought it.
Now we’re just out hundreds of dollars and have spent months and months since we bought it last year without a working microwave.
Stay away from LG Global! Also taking reliable microwave recs. Have literally never even had microwave trouble before this so I feel like I could buy a $20 one from Walmart and fare better.
I’m running into the weirdest problem. I have a standard tank: it’s a 60“ x 24“ tank, but it’s a rimmed tank, so that actually means that the length with the rim is 60.5 inches and the depth with the rim is 24.5 inches.
The problem I’m running into is that every stand I can find is exactly 60 x 24 inches long – this means it is half an inch too short and half an inch too narrow for my rimmed tank. I don’t understand how this can be the case given that this is a standard tank. I know this sounds crazy, but I really think because people call this a 60 x 24 inch tank – because they use the glass dimensions and not the dimensions with the rim – stand companies took that really literally and made stands that would only work for rimless tanks. However, even in the (probably AI or at least photoshop, let’s be real) pictures these stands use, the tanks are rimmed.
I feel like I’m going crazy. Why can I not find a stand that is appropriate for this standard tank? I called a custom stand company and the guy said he would be shocked if their standard stands did not fit this tank, but of course can’t guarantee it. So I could pay $3000 to get it shipped out here and potentially find out it’s a half inch too narrow. I could also pay thousands of dollars to get a custom stand made, but again, I just feel like that is crazy. How can there not be stands available that support all four corners of this rimmed tank??
Right now I have an acrylic basking spot that hangs over the side of my rimmed glass aquarium and it’s worked really well for us. I haven’t found an over-the-tank basking spot that works with the various lids and such that my aquariums have had. I’m looking at this aquarium online, but I can’t figure out how a basking spot will work for it.
Does anybody have a eurobraced aquarium similar to this and can show me how you made the basking spot work?
Does anyone have their turtle in a rimless glass tank? I’m considering getting one, but I usually use egg crate over top of my rimmed glass aquarium and so I’m having trouble figuring out what sort of lid I could put on a rimless glass aquarium to make sure he can’t escape. Just wondering what other people do.
I have a lot of egg crate but I’m not sure if it would just sit on top or what. In my rimmed tank it sort of fits down into the rim.
Does anyone have their turtle in a rimless glass tank? I’m considering getting one, but I usually use egg crate over top of my rimmed glass aquarium and so I’m having trouble figuring out what sort of lid I could put on a rimless glass aquarium to make sure he can’t escape. Just wondering what other people do.
I have a lot of egg crate but I’m not sure if it would just sit on top or what. In my rimmed tank it sort of fits down into the rim.
We took in a dog from a friend (a 3 year old pomapoo) because she wasn’t receiving the best care.
She is not spayed, but I’m worried about getting her spayed because I think she has a collapsing trachea. We took her to the vet and they did some tests but they were not conclusive. She could have asthma, allergies, or a classic intermittent collapsing trachea.
I’m not going to take anything anyone says as veterinary advice, and I will continue working with my vet about this. But I know it would make me feel better if I could hear some stories of dogs with collapsing tracheas getting spayed successfully. Does anyone have a situation that’s similar and it went well and can tell me about it?
Would also accept stories of times when people decided spaying was not advisable due to this or other issues. Basically I feel like a bad owner rn because she’s not spayed yet but I’m just worried.
ETA: Posting this to get some positive stories to help with my anxiety, so hopefully this is obvious but please no scare tactics or catastrophizing because I do spiral. Thanks
I’ve used turkey baster with the tip cut off and also fine mesh fishnets, but I’ve never found anything I just love for getting deep into an aquarium to grab turtle poop.
I find that even with two Fluval FX4s on my 130 gallon, my cycle is struggling to keep up with how messy my turtle is, so I’m going to start making sure I remove the poop as soon as I see it.
Anybody have tools that makes this easier?
We just put a turtle brush into my turtle’s tank for the first time and I’m shocked by how much he loves it. He has been playing with it constantly and scratching his booty since he got it.
The only problem is that once he pushes it up, he can’t get good leverage anymore to get a good scratch. Does anyone have recommendations for a brush that has stays put better, or maybe some advice on positioning so that he can’t push it up quite so easily, but doesn’t get trapped under it?
ETA: video of booty scritches in comments:)
If your cat has feline asthma, I would love to know what signs you notice and what made you take them into the vet. I would also love to know what test the vet did to diagnose.
What about if your cat has ever had a respiratory infection?
Note: I have a lot of anxiety about my pets, so please try to keep it more factual than terrifying or I will spiral in an unproductive way. We already have a vet appointment and whatever is happening seems relatively mild. Thank you!
If your cat has feline asthma, I would love to know what signs you notice and what made you take them into the vet. I would also love to know what test the vet did to diagnose.
Note: I have a lot of anxiety about my pets, so please try to keep it more factual than terrifying or I will spiral in an unproductive way. Thank you!
I bought this light fixture, but it turns out it’s for rimless tanks and every similar one of them I can find is for a rimless tank. I’ve been trying forever to find a way to hang my T5 rod UVB and having the hardest stupid time. Does anybody know of a fixture like this that is for rimmed aquariums? Or still open to any other solutions.
I started a fishless (turtleless in my case) cycle and it seems to be stuck on ammonia. Right now my ammonia is between 1 and 2 ppm and it’s day 20 of trying to cycle it. The temperature is about 75, but I can put a heater in it to raise it. I’ve got two Fluval FX 4 canister filters running on it and have dosed it with Seachem stability for over 10 days.
I do think I made a mistake and I started with a handful of turtle food for my ammonia source, which I’ve now learned I should’ve started with dosing it with pure ammonia, but at this point, I don’t think that is the issue. Is there any way to get the cycle moving?
I’m running a fishless cycle in a 130 gallon aquarium, and just found snails. I’m really confused and don’t know where they could’ve come from, but I guess plants. We bought duckweed and water lettuce off Amazon and I assume they came in on those.
I’m kind of freaking out because the Internet says that wild cots nails can pass on pathogens and parasites, but I don’t think these count as wild caught if they came on the plants I bought right?
I just wanna make sure they are the type of snail that is safe for my red eared slider to eat and that it’s OK for them to stay in the aquarium. They’re very small, can anyone tell from these pictures what they are?
I’ve seen other posts about this here but they all seem to focus on whether it’s safe for filtration to turn the air pump off each night but I’m not worried about that (I have over 3x canister filtration on my tank bc I have a turtle). I’m worried about the air pump somehow flooding or something.
I plan to set up the air tubing with check valves — given this, is it safe to have the air pump click off each night and back on each morning? The reason I’d like to do this is to make sure my turtle isn’t bothered by noise while he’s sleeping.
Thank you:)
I’m doing a fishless (or really I guess turtleless for me) cycle in my new 130 gallon tank getting it ready for my turtle, and I’m noticing there’s an area where the water isn’t circulating as well, so debris is collecting there.
What would you recommend to keep the water moving in an area like this? I thought about putting a bubble wand, but I feel like the bubbles would go up and not across the bottom of the tank. Is there something designed to circulate the water in an area like this? I mean, once my turtle is in there he will also help:)
I’ve been really appreciating San Diego chicken pie shop Cobb salads. They’re filled to the brim, full of really crisp iceberg, lettuce, a ton of bacon and avocado and chicken. They also give you a bigger amount of salad dressing that I’m used to from other restaurants, and it’s homemade. I always get their blue cheese dressing. It comes with a roll and butter, and I usually get a side of chicken gravy to also dip the roll into. I love the chicken pie shop for so many reasons, but just wanted to shout out their salad.
I have this 3d printed stand I purchased from Etsy for the T5 bulb, but will putting it here (shown in picture) allow my turtle to have enough of his tank away from the UV source? Is there a way to shade the other side? Just ignore the hanging lamps — that’s what I’m using until I figure the t5 out.
Also, how far should the bulb be from my turtle? I have one chart saved in my photos that seems to say like 7 inches, but this chart I’ve included here says more like 10 to 11 inches.
My sister is moving here from Switzerland and I want her first dinner here to give her all the best San Diego vibes — I’m thinking amazing Mexican food somewhere by the ocean?
Can anyone recommend a great Mexican spot close to the ocean with the ability to sit down? Maybe with nice dessert spots walkable? But feel free to go off script from that if you have other ideas. Basically, help me plan my itinerary. Thank you!