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This is what you said:

We assumed bugs and the really little stuff could live on floating debris.

The vast majority of "bugs" were "upon the face of the ground".

The dimensions of the ark in Genesis 6:15 would add up to the space of 52 modern boxcars, enough space for every "kind" of animals on the planet.

How can you possibly get to the conclusion that "52 boxcars" are enough to hold every "kind" of animal? Even excluding acquatic animals.

Where did they put all the food? How did they manage to clean out the TONS of excrement those animals would produce every day?

Look, I really don't want to argue interpretation with you. The Hebrew word for the things that crawl on the face of the ground refers to specific classes of animals, like skinks and mice.

As for that second quote, I don't know where you got it. Its not mine. Still, I'd say that would be adequate space for the 11,000 species, or more likely, 5-6000, that my student and I researched. The average size of those critters would be about the size of a chicken. Not including subspecies, there really are only a few hundred really large types of terristiral animals.

The food for the mammals and birds would be a problem, and also the excrement. Reptiles only need a meal every six months or so, when they are inactive. If there were 6,000 kinds, including 2,000 reptiles, that leaves 4,000 kinds that are "high maintenance". That is a lot, but many from that group have the active or latent ability to hibernate or estivate.

I am not sure how many are left, but even if they took 7 of each of the 4,000 high maintenance types that is 28,000 chicken sized (on average) animals.

We have lots of chicken houses around here that hold 28,000 chickens, worked by ONE COUPLE, and they are nowhere near the size of 52 box cars.

Look, maybe the flood account is fiction, maybe its history- but you can't prove it is fiction by doing the math on the ark. I know because I have done it more than once in my life.