I want a reptile and have a 10x10x12 setup but nothing is/has lived in it and want to get something small, is there anything I can keep in it?

Hello reptile keepers!

I'm a high school student that is looking to start a "wildlife and exotic animal care club" at school.

I would like to ask for advice and tips from experienced keepers.

Basically, a dream of mine has been to start an organization that educates people on wildlife and exotic animal care, inspires, and has an impact.

Since I started volunteering at a local exotic animal rescue, my life has been completely changed. I would like to share this same passion with other people, hence why I'm creating this club.

My school teaches animal science, but unfortunately the "animal science", it teaches is about agriculture and meat production. We used to have a previous animal science teacher that quit at the end of last year, and used to keep plenty of animals.

The teacher in question left a whole storage room full of shelves with animal supplies (one picture provided). That warehouse also contains other supplies such as five to ten glass tanks (5-15 gallons), and one large tank that is the size of a whole table (large enough to house a big python or a snapping turtle). Some of the tanks have leftover expanding foam from a background that was removed. The supply room also had a bunch of plastic bins, feed, equipment, toys, egg crates. I have the permission to use the supplies in that room for the club.

The teacher also left a broken aquarium on a table of her classroom. The aquarium is filled with water, full of algae (very swampy), and the lid needed to be covered, because it released a putrid smell. It also had a wall filter that hasn't been tested whether it works (can it be reused?) Any advice on how I can clean the tank? The tank was supposed to be taken away and cleaned up at the beginning of the year, but the people who were supposed to do it kept laying it off for later. It's a decently sized aquarium tank (tall, compared to other tanks, but smaller than the large tank), but the water is in a very bad, swampy condition with black stuff forming on the water.

We wanted to get ambassador animals for the club, and the plan was to adopt a rescue or potentially buy from an ethical breeder. We would like to know which animals (i'd love for the animals to be unique, not something like a bearded dragon, corn snake or milk snake, because other teachers already keep them, and they're guest speakers of the club) would be a great idea to get for the club. We're located in NC, and local regulations shouldn't be a problem, unless it's a native animal, endangered or considered "dangerous". I'll be financing everything, including potential vet visits, but may open a gofundme, just in case. My goal is to provide the animals with the greatest care possible, and replicate their natural habitats. The animals will be in my care, and will have a place to go during holidays or other times. Animals will be receiving the necessary diet, temperature, supplements, and everything else they might need to thrive (and will thoroughly be researched!)

I was going to start a dubia roach breeding bin to supply potential insectivores that we may be getting, but the teacher left a ton of cricket food.

PS. I did a bad job taking the pictures of the supplies + Reddit was acting odd, so I'm only able to upload a single picture (there are also other supplements, other random equipment like auto-feeders, fish nets, water heaters, water conditioners, bottom feeder fish food, unpackaged lamps/lamps from other brands like reptisun, etc.), because I was in a rush, and unfortunately don't have any pics of the tanks, but the estimations of the size should be correct.

I'd love to hear y'all's thoughts, and maybe y'all's stories about how you started in the reptile keeping hobby, and maybe mistakes you did, that could've been avoided.

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