Everglades Cypress Marsh Biome for Tiny Turtles 

How incredible are these tiny turtles? I loved seeing them swim and explore their new home. I’ve received videos of them nearly every day since and they really seem to enjoy it. What do you think? Let me know and have a great weekend SerpaSquad!

A genuinely excellent installation! Your serious attempts to create natural environments is deeply appreciated.

I love seeing the process, but I love hearing Tanner’s commentary about his thought process throughout. The attention to detail and care for animals that aren’t even his is truly astounding.

i’m sorry but i think it’s super funny that tanner just invented a project for himself while on vacation. but i have to it’s a beautiful piece and the turtles seem to enjoy it immensely.

I really appreciate how you don't over talk or use filler words. I just watched another Tuber where I knew what they were going to say most of the video

As someone that has lived in Florida for the majority of their lives, you NAILED IT. This is by far my favorite set up ever

I got teary eyed, (with joy) when I saw the title. I just want to point out a couple things. That Everglades are actually wetlands, meaning, they also experience regular periods of drought. I don't know how you would create that, but I challenge you. The most diverse and densely populated ecosystems are wetlands, and I love you are going in this direction. Using terms like biome, marsh, and ecosystem, then showing them how to recreate that; helps people realize that the natural world is the healthiest area for these animals and it teaches how delicate the balance is. That it is far more expensive and difficult to create, but that it's far easier and more affordable to maintain, far better for your companions, and so much more beautiful than what is would be without it. There is a huge movement in this direction and I truly believe you are one of the pioneers. Amazing, I love it, I love what you do.

Cypress knees are a fun subject. The structure is an example of a pneumatophore aka an air hole. While the photosyntically active parts to the plants (aka the green bits) produce their own oxygen, other areas get energy via cellular respiration. As gases don't readily dissolve into water at high concentrations, plants have evolved to compensate. Lily pads have stems with air tubes, and cypress and mangrove trees have evolved pneumatophores to poke through the water and act as oxygen conduits to the roots.

Aww, I'm so glad that little injured female was lucky enough to find Charlie and is now enjoying this beautiful scape. Charlie has an incredible place and does fabulous work with his organization.

Whenever a video drops my day is instantly better. Thank you Tanner!

I love their freakishly long necks. Spengleris might be my favorite species of all though.

What a delightful design... very simple, not overloaded, but looks great. I do appreciate the addition of duckweed as it is a fantastic water purifier... And keeping it in check is simply a matter of dragging a net across the surface periodically to reduce excess (and these turtles, like most, are omnivorous, so they will probably enjoy snacking on it too)...

I really love these nature inspired scapes with lots of botanicals and plants. They always look like a real and small biotope at home. Great job 😊

Haha....I love that little side trip when you noticed all the turtles staring at you while you worked....lol....😄 Those are really cool turtles....beautiful habitat for them too !

Welcome to turtle town!

The turtles swimming around are so cute!

As a native floridian, the knees and limestone is a nice touch.

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Just discovered you this week and subscribed immediately! I saw your video covering your whole display room, very cool. Only thing missing was turtles. Then I saw your snapping turtle video. Very good! Your monologue is so interesting and your voice is clear as a bell. Thank you! I saw your 10 year overview. How wonderful that you are doing what you love. I really appreciate your design esthetic. You’re the best. I’m not watching your videos in order so there’s always a surprise around every corner. When The Pond Guys worked with you, what a build! Jo

I don't make aquariums or plan on ever having lizards or fish....and I love watching your builds. I stay for the passion you have for small creatures and eye for landscaping

Charlie Moorecroft has the most amazing collection of Chelonians. He has uncommon species like Black-Breasted Leaf Turtles, Mini Herman’s Tortoises, Florida Box Turtles, N A Spotted Turtles, Albino Snappers, etc.. Kenan (Kamp Kenan) has several videos interviewing Moorecroft and showing his entire collection.

I would love to see more carnivorous bog setups! Charlie’s looks awesome! 9:30

Wow! Really loving the design here, I love your way of speaking!

So well done, and a VERY under-appreciated species! Great job as per usual Tanner!

I'm so excited you did this!!! I have a little rescue eastern mud turtle who was run over years ago and is blind. His name is My Cousin Vincent Petite Feet (Vinnie.) He has some unique challenges and requirements for his set up, but I want to make it as natural as possible. This is great inspiration! What perfect little cuties they are

Shoutout to Mrs. Tanner for letting you do this in vaca! 🙂

I really love the native setups for region specific animals and you always do such a great job. Keep up the passion!

It’s beautiful! Those are lucky turtles! I also appreciate your innovative rework when the bucket leaked. Even you still encounter issues despite your best plans and experience. I’m pretty happy with my paladarium for my box turtle babies but I had a ton of issues that made me frustrated. Water wicking from pond into land areas was driving me crazy! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. It helps a lot.

MCF x SerpaDesign collabs hit different because you can really see how Tanner is passionate about the animals and their care both as individuals and as wild species living in containment. He goes above and beyond to make the best decisions for the lives he's housing and shares his mistakes so that we all might learn from them and improve our husbandry as a community. Truly my favorite RU-vidr for years now and I hope I get to keep witnessing his artistry and passion for years to come

You make such great 'scapes and tanks. Your passion is infectious.

Idk if that light you have for basking is only UV, but make sure it can produce UVB as well! Most turtles as they grow need it in order to grow their shells properly. If their shells start looking brittle, start kinda looking spiky at the top, or if the edges curl then they might need a UVB bulb. Idk if all turtle species need them but anytime i ever kept turtles they needed it.

Oh my gosh, I love cypress swamps, this is such a cool build, I'm going to have to try to build something like this.

The double bucket fix was a great idea!

I love when you do reptile/amphibian ecosystem builds!

yay a Serpa video! Those turtles looked so happy in their new space. Hope you had a nice vacation, you have certainly earned it.

Those are some seriously cute turtles and the look right at home in their new home!

The little guys look so happy in their new home

Tanner, you're such an inspiration. Not only for making your own environments and caring for animals, but because of your commitment to something you have so much fun with. My passions aren't as creative or productive, but I hope I'm able to stay as passionate and have as much fun as possible like you. Awesome build, thanks for the content!

Love it! Nice build Tanner.

This was my favorite project from your whole channel, the idea of Everglades is awesome for turtles, i bet they loved it, i wish i can do my own one day.

As much as I love the creativity, I love the lingo… it’s like a whole language.

This was a great video. Would love to see you revisit a scape similar to the temperate forest river from a few years ago. Perhaps an even longer one this time that's also taller and works as a paludarium, starts as a waterfall, goes into a winding stream, and ends with a "lake". Perhaps under the river, connected to the "lake" is an underground cave with little white fish. You could even have an opening in the ground near the "river", like a pond, where light can shine down into it? I dunno. Either way -- keep up the good work. My son and I really love watching your videos and has been very helpful in keeping our spiders (bold jumping and pink toe). :)

So cute. I love those little guys. I wish large paludariums were more available as standard tanks. I can't build this stuff or afford custom made.

Amazing. I’m in awe of projects that are designed to highlight Creations own genius.

Serpa is such an amazing inspiration. I wanna try doing similar things but I don’t know how to keep plants alive. Lol

Love these naturalscapes

Just the build I needed to get the ideas flowing!!!

Very beautiful. Can't ever have too many floating plants IMHO.

One of my dream pets. My only thing preventing me from these guys is my lack of space in my current house.

The Salamanders would love to hang out there!

Love the way that you include your errors….reminds us that we are human…even professionals make mistakes

I'm always amazed how talented you are. Good stuff

I would love to have turtles like that one day, they are so curious and so cute.

mg those vietnamese turtles with their gigantic eyes... i love them

This was amazing! Well done indeed!

I love your visions, wilding the aquariums and teaching us how to make our own. Kudos!

Loved seeing how curious the turtles looked exploring the botanicals in the clips towards the end. Your setup really made them feel like they were in their natural habitat!

I think the use of the bucket for a land area is a great idea. Another great video

Thar is an Amazing set up, they are sooooo cute!!! They look like very happy turtles indeed ❤❤

Turtles are my favourite pet but I can't keep them where I live now. So these turtle-arium setup videos make me happy. Thanks, Tanner and Charlie! I love duckweed in my aquariums too!

Those little turtles sure seem happy in their new home! That was quick thinking with the bucket workaround. I'm glad you got to hang out a bit in the Everglades, it's an awesome place.

These videos are so relaxing to me, I love watching them before bed. Thanks for the hard work you do to make these.

i dont know why, but this set up would be my favourite one youve made so far! i love the turtles and how they use the space you made, the small vegetation details in the water for them to slip through is awesome!

Always a pleasure seeing your process and you get to work. Love these little guys ❤ incredible work yet again!

Thanks so much for the upload, Tanner. I needed this today. Well worth the wait too.

I love how natural your setups are. Amazing

I love turtles and these little guys are so cute! I love that you focus on creating an environment similar to their natural one as well as something that looks good

Wonderful setup! In addition, I really enjoyed your editing. That must have been time consuming. Well done!

Outstanding enclosure and biotope design.

Very tempted to get musk turtles now with that kind of set up. I already have turtles but if I ever decide to get more I will consider getting "rescues." Thanks for mentioning that and for contributing positively to the hobby.

This looks great. I love the cypress knees. I have lived in Florida most of my life and I never knew about these turtles they are so cute.

I love turtles/tortoises... and shrimps. 😊

These tiny turtles are beautiful! I'm so happy you were able to make them such a beautiful and amazing home.

Wow, great work and pretty animal.

I love turtles I can’t wait for this build!❤

Having watched all of your content, some of the videos several times, I believe this is my favorite you've made design-wise.

you are such an amazing human and you continue to work with others. i love it

god i love your videos, cant believe i saw this one so early! youre the main inspiration for doing a terrarium for a school project, local uni funds it and i get to keep the left over materials :)

If I only I could have someone like you to help me do something like that for my fish tank😭

Thanks for making the effort to include metrical measures!

Fantastic set up!! I'd love to copy a set up like that and keep those tiny turtles! That is awesome and something I could realistically maintain. Thanks for sharing Tanner. 🐢🐢🐢 Gina Hetlage

I’m a new edition to the Serpa Squad!! I’ve been really enjoying your content for the last month! I used to make terrariums when I was in highschool but it was never anything fancy You’ve gave me the spark to want to repick-up the hobby, and I’m hoping to try to make terrarium with local plants and house a few american toads! Keep up the creativity dude! You’re like the terrarium LEGEND!!❤

this is one of my favorites!! such an amazing job

The bucket is a great idea. I was looking for ideas for sun areas for my Kinosternon cruentatum. Thanks for that! Great Video!

That looks so cool.

This is exactly what I want to build!

Time to watch this and go to work

Those are super cute ! And your turned out amazing👍

I love that tank. I've been thinking of doing the same thing but on a smaller scale. I also didn't know what kind of turtle to get because I want one that stays small. Problem solved.

Très belle installation, merci pour la vidéo!

A fantastic build, very impressive, and I loved how much the turtles really seemed to relax and explore their new home. I hope that you and your wife also managed some relaxation time on holiday too though!!!

The Turtles are adorable

It looks amazing

Wow! This is a very beautiful craft hope you have good luck in the future and continue to make videos like these!

That first turtle going in looked around like "this is for me!"

Dude! I love your videos! Thank you for making awesome content!

I think o e been waiting for this one and didn’t even know it. Wonderful!!!

Your turtle videos are my favorite.

You're a freakin genius dude, that's beautiful as usual 🤙

Thank you for this. Really glad you are tackling turtles. I still would love if you one day made an adult red eared slider enclosure. I know its difficult but its possible. Sadly no one ever really wants to try with these guys except for a giant tub with nothing in it, or just a pond out in the backyard. Or any enclosures that do get made are just meant for them when they are just babies. I know they can be destructive but I still believe a scape could be done for adults in the right way.