I've been meaning to post but never got around to it. So here goes. We initially started with a 3000 gal turtle pond with no filtration and various turtles, primarily RES. Fast forward 25+ years and we now have 6 ponds with around 80 turtles. We have 2 -300 gal cattle trough ponds with DIY retrofit BDs to malatal mats filter to shower filters, an 800 gal blue P.E. pond with retrofit DIY BD to static K1 prefilter to shower filter; a 500 gal blue cattle trough with BD to static K1 prefilter to anoxic filter, and a 5000 gal PE liner pond with 2 bds ad skimmer to a Zac built rdf, anoxic filter to tpr and waterfalls. We also have a 1700 gal epdm lined pond with bd and skimmer that feeds a settlement tank to broken blue eco to anoxic filter to waterfall. We're working on replacing the blue eco with a Filtreau rdf. We pulled the blue eco today and set up a by pass to work on installing th new rdf. will post as we go.
Our goal was to have separate ponds for the male and female RES, have a pond for the painted turtles, the maps, and juveniles, and a large pond for the yellow and red bellied sliders. We destroy the eggs as we don't want any more turtles, and now with the RES separated, we're doing much better with controlling egg production. Here's our original pond anda picture of the 6 current ponds. I'll attempt to post more picures.