Is my baby turtle sick?

Two tortoises have died in my family because of this situation, and I would like to give you a few suggestions.

1.Feed live fish, not meat, because there are many bacteria in raw meat that can easily infect turtles or get other diseases.

2.Live fish should be bought and kept in other fish tanks for a few days, because some fish live in polluted water, the fish are very dirty, there are many bacteria, you must buy it back and put it for a few days before feeding.

3.Prepare a small bottle of potassium permanganate (sold in pharmacies, very cheap), potassium permanganate has a bactericidal effect, you can put some in the fish tank.

4.Feed your turtle some anti-inflammatory drugs to see, it must be less, I feel that it is also pneumonia, it has been staged on TV, if you don't want to go in, you can use a syringe (I have used it).

I strongly oppose the release of the Brazilian tortoise, because the Brazilian tortoise is an alien species, and the release will affect the local ecology, because of its strong reproductive ability and vitality, which should be common sense.

There are also people who say that the "turtle protection liquid" knows a little chemistry and knows that it is actually copper sulfate solution, which has the effect of sterilization, and it is very cheap to change the name to become turtle protection liquid, and the effect is not very good.

At first, if you let the small fish go, you may not be able to catch the turtle, but after a few days you can catch it, and it is fun to watch the turtle catch the fish on its own.

That's it, if there's anything else I'm going to add.

I see that you have to add, and I feel like I've got to be detailed, but in the end it's up to you to get the turtle.

Is it just floating on the water? Is it sideways drifting or? There is a breath with the neck stretched. Is there something white coming out of your mouth? There are these things that are pneumonia First of all, it is recommended that you buy a warming rod and add 28 degrees of water

The water should be shallower and feed the live fish.

It is suggested that turtles that are artificially fed and do not eat need to be forced to feed to correct severe nutrient deficiencies. The first feeding should include an electrolyte solution, amino acids, and a simple carbide, followed by a mixture of electrolytes, uncooked eggs, and dog or cat feed. Wait for the turtle's digestive function to improve, and then feed it with solid feed.

There are two ways to fill the turtle in captivity: the first method is to insert a flexible catheter along the esophagus about 1 3 of the body length, and then inject the food puree or solution in the syringe into the turtle's stomach. A small amount should be given to avoid counterflow.

Care should be taken when the cannula is withdrawn and the oral tissue should not be damaged; In the second method, small fish, small insects and other small animals are administered, egg white is coated on the intubation tube, and the tube is inserted into a short length, and the small animal is artificially sent into the stomach. In addition to oral feeding, subcutaneous or intrabody injections, such as dextrose (lactated Ringer's solution), are recommended. In addition, try to improve the living environment of anorexic turtles, such as temperature, light, humidity, etc.

Question addendum: Heating the water is controlled between 25-28 for 1 week.

You don't have much money to buy a turtle, if you save it, it will cost several times the money, and it may not be good to save it, rather than knowing the final result, I also recommend you to release it! One of my previous turtles didn't eat either, so I released it.

(1) White eye disease.

**: Due to the high density during artificial breeding, which causes turtle trauma or deterioration of water quality, the juvenile and juvenile stages of Brazilian turtles are more likely to be infected with white eye disease.

Symptoms: The eye of the sick turtle is inflamed and congested, gradually turning grayish white and swollen, the cornea and its surroundings are eroded due to inflammation, and the outside of the eye is covered by a layer of white discharge. After the onset of the disease, the turtle often rubs the eyes with the forelimbs, can not eat, and in severe cases, the eyes are blind, it is difficult to breathe, and the body is thin and dies.

Prevention and control methods: strengthen feeding management, focusing on disinfection. Strict disinfection of turtles and turtle water bodies and eating utensils; Strengthen the nutrients of turtle feed and enhance turtle disease resistance. Sick turtles were soaked in 40 ppm erythromycin solution for 60 minutes; Apply chlortetracycline eye ointment to the eye area of the diseased turtle.

2) Gastroenteritis.

**: Turtle disease is mostly caused by feed deterioration or contamination of eating utensils and water bodies by E. coli and other pathogens.

Symptoms: Sick turtles have dull eyes, no brilliance, emaciated, do not like to crawl, like to drink water, diarrhea, stool is nasal discharge, this disease mostly occurs in spring, summer and autumn, and it is more prevalent in the summer high temperature season.

Prevention and control methods: improve water quality, keep water fresh, feed fresh feed, and strictly disinfect eating utensils. After soaking the sick turtle with 30 ppm erythromycin solution for 60 minutes, an appropriate amount of oxytetracycline was mixed into the feed and fed to the sick turtle.

3) Nail rot.

**: When the carapace is damaged, bacteria invade the wound and cause the carapace to decay.

Symptoms: decay of the superficial carapace, or formation of burrows or even visible muscles, lack of food, lack of movement.

Prevention and control methods: soak the diseased turtle with 40ppm potassium permanganate solution for 15 minutes, and then gently apply a trace amount of potassium permanganate crystal powder to the lesion of the diseased turtle.

4) Overwintering deaths.

**: Mostly due to lack of nutrition before wintering, the physique is weak and unable to resist the long-term cold invasion and death. A small number of postpartum parent turtles and turtles with chronic diseases die due to overwintering.

Symptoms: Before wintering, the turtle body is emaciated, the muscles are shriveled, and the sick turtle is picked up, and the hand feels very light. It often floats on the surface of the water and does not move.

Prevention and control methods: In the southern region, starting from July to August every year, especially after the brood turtle spawning stops, gradually strengthen the feeding of concentrate feed such as meat, add an appropriate amount of trace elements, so that the turtle physique can be restored, and enough nutrients will be stored for winter. Sick turtle grasps it**; Juvenile turtles should take certain heat preservation measures for winter.

5) Endoscopic and extra-external parasites.

**: Mostly due to long-term habitat in water, resulting in ticks, fleas, trypanosomes and other parasites on the body surface or internal organs of turtles.

Symptoms: Insect body on the surface of the turtle, emaciation.

Prevention and control methods: immediately remove the body surface worms, soak them in copper sulfate solution (milligrams) for 30 minutes, and feed intestinal worms every six months.

It needs to be taken to the pet hospital, so that the doctor can determine that the baby turtle is **uncomfortable through the examination and the owner's description.

After the diagnosis, do not blindly and arbitrarily give some drugs, it is very likely that the effect of ** will not be achieved, and it will even cause other adverse symptoms, which will cause greater harm to the baby turtle.

It may be gastroenteritis, which can be caused by a sudden drop in ambient temperature, or if the bait is not fresh or clean, or if the water quality deteriorates. Turtle feces with mild disease have a small amount of mucus or loose stools that are yellow, green, or dark green, and the turtle eats little. Severely diseased turtle droppings are watery or mucus-like, sauce-colored, blood-red.

The turtle stops eating.

What is wrong with the tortoise, tell me about the symptoms. Because many pet hospitals are now treating cats and dogs, such as turtles, not every hospital treats them, you name it, see if experienced people can help you.

You can give it to the veterinarian to see if there is any problem.

It's nail rot and rot skin disease, have you not changed the water quality much recently? Leave an email, I will send you turtle breeding and your turtle disease tomorrow**.

Mycosis is mostly caused by mold infection after the turtle epidermis is bruised, which is manifested as reddish-white epidermal necrosis and severe visible mildew.

Prevention and control methods: In the process of transportation, stocking, and transfer pool capture, the operation should be careful to avoid injury to the turtle body. If a turtle is injured before entering the pool, apply 1% malachite green ointment or sulfonamide ointment to the affected area.

Once a sick turtle is found, it should be isolated in time and disinfected with 20%-30% lime water; The whole body of the sick turtle is coated with purple potion for 7 days, and a small amount of oxytetracycline powder can also be added to the feed for 3 days.

In this case, the survival rate of young turtles is basically zero. Please take Yacheng's Brazilian turtle to practice in the future.

The innocent court did not indict the first five lines.

Possibly, maybe lonely.