gotta get me them shrampies

Had a questionably dead mystery snail so I put him in a cup yesterday. Went to check today and spilled it all over me. Judging from the smell its definitely dead.

So I guess I'm getting a painted turtle soon. A friend is looking to rehome a painted, a softshell, and two snappers. I don't want to deal with big mean animals so we said we'd take the painted. I have several tanks sitting around and one I got from a yard sale was full of brand new stuff they were going to use to set up a turtle tank but then they got pregnant and never did it. And it's coming with its own tank and supplies so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I pretty much dont have to buy anything. I've been looking at tank set ups for a few hours now and I'm very excited. I'm going to go as natural as possible. The yard sale stuff came with this huge rock waterfall filter so I'm going to base everything around that. Probably order some large river stones that can't be eaten and some drift wood. It also came with those turtle shelves that I'll use for now but eventually I want to set it up where its completely dry area on top with holes that lead to the full tank at the bottom. Honestly setting up the enclosure is my favroite part of keeping animals. I'm very excited. This will be my first water and land animal.

The more snails I find in my tank the more my anxiety is kicking in because I was not prepared for this many snails and they are all my children now and I must Care for them...