Turtle stuff

[silver_chipmunk]

Started out the day by going to my meeting. Stopped at the bagel place for a bacon, egg, and cheese on a roll, and coffee. The meeting was very good.

After the meeting Oldest Brother picked me up and we came back to my place, stopping at Rite Aid for my prescriptions on the way.

When we got here we puttered on line for awhile. The Kid called, the opal that she ordered on-line came and she sent pictures of it.

Then we motivated ourselves to do turtle tasks. We emptied the water from the tank, and then I moved the rocks and discovered just how mucky it was underneath them. No wonder the water wouldn't stay clear, it was constantly being contaminated by the gunk. So I took the rocks out, washed them off, and scooped out as much of the icky stuff as I could.

Then I cleaned the filter, and reassembled the tank, ie rebuilt the rock platform. Then we refilled the tank. Alas, the gunk that I couldn't scoop out left the water so murky it's worse than it was before I cleaned it. If the filter doesn't take care of it by Monday I'm going to have to drain the water again and replace it, all by myself. Yuck.

Anyway, we took a rest after that, and Oldest Brother took a brief nap. After that I organized my recycling, and we took it, plus the bag of gunk I scooped from the turtle tank to the place where the garbage goes. I still have some cardboard to take out, maybe I'll do it tomorrow.

We did some brief shopping. First we went to Petco for turtle food. And while I was there I spotted something else to get her, a box of two cuttlebones packaged for turtles as a calcium supplement, so i picked that up too. Then we went to BJ's, where I got yogurt and orange juice.

After that we went to Applebee's and used the gift card that mashfanficchick and her mother gave us for Christmas. So that was nice.

And then we came back home and I gave Christie her cuttlebone. She hasn't eaten any of it yet though, which is disappointing. The last time she had one, which was years ago, she almost immediately started chomping it down. But it's in there when she decides to give it a try.

Oldest Brother took another nap, and then went home, and that's pretty much the day. I didn't have time to Skype the FWiB, but we e-mailed.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Oldest Brother.

3. My turtle.

4. My meetings and the people at them.

5. Friends.

6. Three day weekend just beginning.

Comments

[8hyenas]

I'm not sure if turtle gunk and fish gunk are the same, but do you have a little gravel vacuum thing? I mean, it may work better for fish aquarium simply because their poo is smaller... but for me it works to get all the old food etc out from under the decor.

https://www.amazon.com/Genuine-TERA-PUMP-Aquarium-Controller/dp/B011DDJZ9Y/ref=sxin_3_ac_d_pm?ac_md=2-0-VW5kZXIgJDI1-ac_d_pm&crid=1ISFBQM6UPVHQ&cv_ct_cx=aquarium+vacuum&keywords=aquarium+vacuum&pd_rd_i=B011DDJZ9Y&pd_rd_r=18c2ae83-1aec-42f5-9f50-833cedda0095&pd_rd_w=rFAQ1&pd_rd_wg=h2QmF&pf_rd_p=516e6e17-ed95-417b-b7a4-ad2c7b9cbae3&pf_rd_r=A1H41E9RXQP9E4MVSNNA&psc=1&qid=1581854247&sprefix=aquairum+vac%2Caps%2C798&sr=1-1-22d05c05-1231-4126-b7c4-3e7a9c0027d0


This one is my favorite.

[silver_chipmunk]

I do have a siphon that I use to drain the water, but it doesn't have enough suction to have cleaned the muck I had to deal with. Thanks though, I'm always looking for new turtle-care products.