please help!

Go buy a large rubbermaid tub (40+ Gallons) from Wally-World. They're like 8 or 9 bucks. Fill the tub about 2/3 full and add some flat rocks that come with in a few inches from the surface. Now you have 2 choices on filtration. Buy a cheap filter and do a 25-50% water change a day or buy a really good expensive canister filter and have less water changes to do. Get a submersible heater and keep the water around 78 degrees. For food feed it Reptimin, freeze-dried shrimp, shrimp pellets, crickets, small snails, frozen shrimp, fish fillets and earthworms. Don't bother feeding it live fish. If I lived closer I'd take the snapper off your hands.
 
i bought a tub from the dollarstore down the street...and honestly, i dont even have enough money right now to buy a cheap filter... :headshake2:

luckily, i had an extra heater and plenty of rocks.
i have an internal 3i whisper filter..i guess that would be better than nothing.

ive already cleaned the tub twice today.
the tank he was in before was soo dirty..gravel and dirt have just been coming off of him all day..where is it all coming from?


despite all of this, he is pretty fun to watch..the way he moves in the water and how curious and aware he is..

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Not bad, but I wouldn't keep him in something like that for long. He looks healthy. These guys can live in some seriously disgusting water and are very hardy for the most part. I would take the plant and rocks out to give him a little more space to swim. Maybe even add some more water. To keep the tub a bit cleaner, suck out the poo with a syphon as soon as you see it.
 
took out the rocks and plant and found an old HOB whisper 10...used some plastic and duct tape and now the snapper has a filter...
 
Sounds good. You're going to need it. Turtles are very messy animals.
 
I'm pretty sure thats a common, from the pics, and you said it was wild caught. I see you're from the Northeast, so thats the only snapper species native to up here.
 
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