How can i build a pond for my baby red ear sliders?

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

Question by Ziyaad K: How can i build a pond for my baby red ear sliders?
I mean a place to live. I have 4 adult RES which live in a bathtub. And two baby RES ( not babies of the adults ) which I bought separately and which live in a bucket!
I want to make a pond for them about 1 or 2 meters by 1 meter.
My budget is around 50 dollars.
Can you please help me build it and is there a website for building RES ponds?
Thanks.

Best answer:

Answer by Michele
Well, what i did was put mine in an aquarium. I put a rock thing in the bottom so they had something to swim in and play around, and then i used tooth picks and corks to build a little raft, they loved it! I didn’t put fake plants, because they eat them sometimes haha. I know the aquarium and rock tunnel and rocks for the bottom will cost definately under $ 50
Make sure if you do this, fill the water only about 3/4 of the way, so they have room at the top, but they can’t get out. And don’t put fish in it, they eat them :)

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4 Responses to How can i build a pond for my baby red ear sliders?

  1. Kay says:
    November 25, 2011 at 4:57 pm

    um for $ 50 all your gonna get is a kiddie pool or a decent sized tank. To build turtle ponds costs about $ 100 to $ 200. Go to home depot or Lowe’s. You might get lucky. they sell plastic ponds.

  2. Nick says:
    November 25, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    you can go on craigslist for your area and type in pond and someone might be selling a thing that you just dig a hole in the ground and put the pond liner in. the get a fence to put around the pond st the RES cant run away

  3. Paul B says:
    November 25, 2011 at 6:17 pm

    Large plastic bins if set up properly can be just as good as an aquarium,
    for the babies a 10 gal. tank would be perfect for the first couple of years, how ever they will also need a tank heater and a basking light

    baby turtles are very hard to keep just due to the fact that they require a lot of care attention
    Google “baby turtle care sheet” and you should find a lot of helpful material

    since your low on funds, see if any of your friends have any extra tanks that they are not using that you can borrow till you can get the proper setup

    im sorry to say that $ 50 just wont cut it for what you want

  4. Peek prays for the U.S.A says:
    November 25, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    I have used hard kiddy pool..$ 13.00

    Hard nursery pond liner..$ 150.00

    A cement slab brick 12X12X1″..and 2 smaller bricks to hold up the slab. That way they can get under the slab for protection or sleep at night. $ 6.00

    Barley keeps the water clearer. $ 8.00 optional.

    A submersable heater $ 15.00 keep temp at 80 to 83 degrees.

    Drop in 50 to 75 goldfish.

    .**and clean every week.
    Drop in 50 to 75 goldfish with some ‘amquel’ so the fish don’t die.
    Turtles need no water condtioners.Tap water is fine. But without amquel the fish would die within an hr.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/29035692@N03/sets/72157620975823702/ my pond now

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/29035692@N03/sets/72157612885877173/…basking areas over the yrs.

    good luck