Zoo Med Floating Turtle Log

When I first saw this in the store, it shocked me at how perfect it looked for my turtle pond. I bought it for far more than i paid for my second one here, but it was still worth it. I saw the turtles spending most of their time hiding in it. I have: Red-Ear Slider - Kespacho Western Painted Map - Atlas Reeves - Christopher Reeves African Side Neck - Sophie the Sophie and Reeves spend most of their time in the logs while Kespacho and Atlas roam around. My biggest concern was that it would not hold a 3-5LB turtle, but I was very wrong I would creep up to the pond and catch them over and over with Multiple turtle on a single log. I have never to date seen them crawl up there, so I am not sure how they do it. The point is they can and do. My only modification I have made to mine was to create an anchor point using a small Anchor stone and some fishing wire which I have now changed to cotton thread. Even though Ill have to change the thread more often the Turtles can see it better so they wont get tangled. The Detail on the outside when new is very good to excellent. It is very durable product wise having had mine in an outdoor pond now for about 4 months. I would state that the paint coloring has dulled a bit but the tint of algae has crept in so it doesnt affect it much. Its weighted perfectly so it floats very well for them to come up to it. If you have a turtle in the mid range which may get stuck in the opening I would recommend removing it till they have put on another 1/2 inch. Overall a 5 star product especially for the price.

My Mississippi Map Turt loves this in our outdoor water garden pond

I have a 20 something year old red ear slider turtle. She has a 75 gallon tank. I bought this as an experiment as to whether she would use it or not. She loves it. While she spend a lot of time swimming around the tank, she also enjoys climbing up to get dry under the UVB and heat lights. I would buy this again and again if need be.

The log sat in the tank for a few days, my turtles didnt seem to pay attention to it. Then today I saw one of my turtles halfway inside, except he was barely moving. I noticed he was stuck, underwater! When I lifted the log out of the water, I could literally hear him gasping for air. I then had to dislodge him from the log, and that further confirmed my suspicion that he was indeed stuck, when it even took me some time to get me out of the log. DO NOT PURCHASE! I AM LUCKY I NOTICED MY TURTLE OR HE WOULD HAVE DROWNED.

It did come with a lot of styrofoam pieces that were easily washed off and a VERY sharp spike area coming out of the edge of a hole that was easily broken off to make it safe. Manufacturing flaw on this particular one I’m sure. It is floating just fine in our 600 gallon pond. Looks like it would fit one adult yellow belly and two if they like each other that much!

good thing is it does float, bad thing is my turtles has never once climb on it at all. However, the fishes love it as they gather underneath it a lot, its not entirely useless, so I guess it still works out for me.

We have a pond but no turtles. I bought this for the frogs to sit on and they love it.

The turtles love it!

Worked great as expected. It takes up a lot of space of our 40 gallon breeder tank. Our two must turtles love it however think I would buy the medium size if I were to do it again.

My turtle loves getting on it when he gets tired of being in the water. However, the log does not in fact float.