its recomended you dont use sand or fine pebbles in a turtle tank as they can eat them and get impaction, you want pebbles that are big enough that they wont be eaten
i ahve my filter intake sitting on a rock with another rock covering the aqrea near it so it doesnt suck sand in from the ground.
i've always wondered when people say stuff like 'turtles shouldnt have sand in the tank, or juvie beardies shouldnt have sand cos they may eat it...". in thw wild there's no one to stop them eating it is there? I assume (cos i'm by now means an expert) that young turtles and beardies arnt dying in the thousands because they ate sand.
I'm not trying to flame anyone, I'm just curious about these things and whetehr they're urban legends
Helikaon: thanaks for the reply. I've seen people speak about using astroturf with young lizards, wouldl the same prob with urine and fecal matter soaking into this occur as well, or do you take the astro turf out and wash/clean it?
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