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smelly cloudy turtle water

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Question
Turtle is 2 yrs old.  about 3 weeks ago, tank was very cloudy and smelly; we changed water, cleaned everything and within days was smelly, cloudy again. i bought a new 2 gal tank and am using 30 gal filter.  still getting cloudy, smelly water withing hours.  what's up??

Answer
2 gallon tank? Hopefully you meant 20 gallon. The problem may be in the filter. Turtles are messy and need BIG filters. You can learn all you need to know about this can be found here: http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Care/waterquality.htm

Good luck!