Tiger oscar and red eared slider riparium setup update 3

I just moved my tiger oscar to my upper 55 gallon tank, he has more space there and the koi that is shown in the video is already sold and will be rehomed in a couple of days, for now the oscar doesn't seem to mind the koi. The oscar is abour 8 months old and is close to 8 inches long. He eats shrimp, pellets, fish fillet and sometimes scallops. the turtle eats mostly veggies and calcium powder covered turtle pellets. the turtle has a 40 watt basking heat lamp right over the basking platform thats made of silicone covered cork. there are two repti-glo 5.0 lightbulbs to provide UVA/UVB rays for the turtle, plus additional 5500k compact fluorescent lightbulbs to help the plants grow.

the plants are mostly red mangroves that I have had for a year, a few lucky bamboo shoots, a few pothos vines recently planted in the planter, along with an arrowhead plant. I am hoping to have more plants in the next update.

the filtration is done by an odyssea cfs 500 canister filter which has the flow rate of 500 gallons per hour, giving a nice current to water surface. It is connected to an underground filter tray with a 4 point pvc adaptor that I put together myself. Clean-up is easy, I do minimal scrubbing because most of the light is absorbed by the plants. I just do a weekly water change of about %30-40 of the water.

I'm hoping to have a few new tankmates in the future but for now they're growing out in other tanks.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• tiger
• oscar
• red
• eared
• slider
• turtle
• riparium
• koi
• diy
• mangroves
• mangrove
• freshwater
• fish
• tank
• aquarium
• pothos
• vines
• arrow
• arrowhead
• plant
• light
• hood
• lucky
• bamboo

[daniellebr8777]

Wow these plants are beautiful! I have two RES and and Oscar as well, and the three of them DESTROY every plant i've ever tried having. We've invested nearly 100 bucks in all sorts of plants and these mischievous creatures tear them up within one week!

[m1ste2tea]

@daniellebr8777 yeah I quickly learned that submerged plants will not last. check out my updates for the oscar/turtle riparium, this tank has changed a lot.

[Tibialmario]

did you buy these rocks? or are they from outdoors?

[m1ste2tea]

@Tibialmario bought then at home depot

[colecoco13]

how long have you had him?

[m1ste2tea]

@colecoco13 he is about a year and 2 months now.

[cebosound1]

cool setup. i like the way you have the roots managed.

[daniellebr8777]

@daniellebr8777 OH I didn't mention our Crawfish! He is bad too, lol!

[greenfiend42000]

wow thats one healthy oscar. has alot of vibrant colors . what food do you feed them ? i feed mine hikari chichlid gold but his colos havent come out yet. hes only 5 inches tho.

[CrAzYdUdE2151]

haha i have the same background ;p

[jgballer003]

Check my last video out . It's pretty legit