Help, does my grass turtle have a skin disease?

It's best to look at the picture above, without which it is difficult to know what the situation is.

I think I have rot disease.

Causes of rotting skin disease: Late skin ulceration disease caused by pet water turtles** due to poor water quality by pathogenic bacteria such as Aeromonas hydrophila, Pseudomonas, and Chromobacterium.

Symptoms of putrid disease: **whitening, ulceration, ulceration and even oozing blood, tissue necrosis, swollen edges. Severe decay can lead to the death of diseased turtles.

Solution: Generally, at this time, take it out for dry raising, apply it with chlortetracycline ointment or other anti-inflammatory drugs, avoid contact with water, and dry sen pants will be raised for a few days. Pure matter.

Turtle rot is the most common problem, and there are many causes of rot skin.

The first reason is the problem of water quality, the water is easy to rot, it needs to be emphasized that the water is dirty, not the water is turbid, in fact, most turtles do not have high requirements for water quality, and the water that can raise fish is excellent for turtles and turtles.

There are two types of muddy water, one is muddy water, or green water. These two types of water are suitable for turtle farming. The other is that the water is too dirty, generally the water body is small, there are many turtles, the feeding is more greasy, frequent, and the number of water changes is less.

In addition, if you can't get sunlight or don't have a land area, it's easy to spoil. Therefore, if it is not muddy water turtle farming, it is recommended to add a filtration system to improve the stability of water quality. Because it is not filtered, if the water is changed frequently, the labor intensity is high, and even if the quality of the water goes up, it is unstable and easy to cause rot.

The second reason is the rotten skin caused by the temperature difference, and the sudden change in temperature will not only cause the turtle to catch a cold and pneumonia, but also cause the rotten skin, especially the turtle that has not been raised, or the seedlings. Therefore, it is important to control the temperature of turtles, especially the seedlings.

The third reason is the stress response caused by the turtle's insecurity, which can also cause rotten skin.

If the water is too clear and there is no evasion, it will also cause turtle rot. In particular, the turtle that has just been bought home is not familiar with the new environment, and it is very easy to cause the turtle's stress response because it is not familiar with the new environment, and it is insecure to run around in the tank. Therefore, if the water is too clear, it is recommended to add an avoidance to slow down the turtle's overreaction.

Longan leaves, olive leaves, duckweed, and water hyacinth can all be used to avoid turtles, and can also improve water quality, killing two birds with one stone. If the turtle is relatively large, the real aquatic plants are easy to rot, you can buy a fake aquatic plants, or a rockery. It can do the same thing.

The fourth is congenital, some turtles are indeed prone to decay.

Different species of turtles also have differences in rotten skin, the same living environment, some turtles live very moist, and some turtles are difficult to adapt to, turning over and over the rotten skin.

Generally, the Brazilian face is a more durable turtle, and the chance of rotting skin is small, and even if there is rotten skin, it will be cured without medicine. Our common turtles, grass turtles, and flower turtles are all turtles that love rotten skin. In particular, the flower turtle has the title of the king of rotten skin.

The snapping turtle is also a turtle that is not afraid of water dirt, and the razor and rotten eggs inside the egg turtle are relatively easy to raise, and the turtle rarely has rotten skin.

Another reason is that most of the national turtles are turtles with long tails, and when they are young, their tails are easy to break, and they are easy to be chased and bitten by their peers, causing mental tension. And Brazil, Flame, Map, Razor, Musk, these turtles that are generally easier to raise have a common feature is that they have a short tail and are not easy to get hurt. Snapping turtles are born with long tails, but they are thick and not easy to break.

As long as the turtle has a slight rot skin, as long as the water quality is good, add a dodge, and bask in the sun more, it can generally be good. If it is serious, you can apply some medicine, and if the rotten skin is too serious, it will also endanger the life of the turtle. Prevention is more important than **.

The key is to maintain the stability and quality of water quality. in order to make their turtles live a better life.

Compare and see.

Sabotom [**]: Caused by bacterial infection.

In the dense breeding environment, turtles and turtles bite each other, and after the invasion of germs, it causes necrosis of the injured tissue; In addition, water pollution can also cause turtle diseases.

Diagnosis]: The affected part of the diseased turtle can be seen to be ulcerated, and the epidermis is whitish.

**]: First remove the lesion from the affected area and apply it with chlortetracycline ointment, 1 time a day. or adding chlortetracycline powder to food; If the turtle has stopped eating, chlortetracycline can be applied and the sick turtle can be fed in isolation.

Do not release water to feed, so as not to aggravate the condition, and wait for the turtle to recover before entering the pond to feed.

General trauma. **]: In the process of catching and feeding, the carapace, limbs, mouth and other parts of the turtle are prone to abrasions, injuries and crushes.

Diagnosis]: local redness and swelling, tissue necrosis, pus.

**]: For new wounds, the bleeding should be stopped first, compressed with gauze, and then the wound should be cleaned, and then scrubbed with disinfectants (93 hydrogen peroxide, 0 5 potassium permanganate) to prevent infection, and the turtle should be coated with betadine for 30 minutes and then put it back in the water, once in the morning and once in the evening. In severe cases, apply Yunnan Baiyao.

If it is on the shell.

Rotten shell disease[**]: Ulceration of the carapace due to bacterial invasion due to the carapace being worn or crushed.

Diagnosis]: The dorsal or ventral carapace of the turtle initially appears white spots, slowly forming red spots, and blood oozing out when squeezed hard, and has a rancid odor. In severe cases, the surface of the carapace will ulcerate into holes, and the armpits and crotch will bulge. Sick turtles stop eating and move less, and there is a phenomenon of head shrinkage.

1. Maintain water quality.

2. Disinfect the turtle pond regularly.

3. Disinfection of the turtle's body surface, regularly soak the turtle body with 25% salt water for 15 20 minutes, or soak the turtle body with 15 20 ppm potassium permanganate solution for 20 30 minutes. Allow the water to dry and put it back.

**]: 1. Pick the shield piece, squeeze out the blood water, remove the lesion, scrub the affected area with hydrogen peroxide, and then apply it directly with potassium permanganate crystal powder or betadine.

2. Take vitamin E, take 60 90 mg per kilogram of turtle body per day, and take it internally for 10-15 days.

3. Intramuscular injection of kanamycin, 240,000 IU per kilogram of turtle body, and 200,000 IU per day. This method also has a significant effect on rotten skin and red neck disease.

Red neck disease. ** The disease is a first-class infectious disease, which mostly occurs during the mildew rainy season, and is caused by bacterial invasion.

Symptoms Swelling of the throat and neck, muscle edema, unresponsiveness, slowness of movement, loss of appetite.

Prevention and control 1) The disease is very contagious, the mortality rate is high, once the turtle is found to be suffering from this disease, it should be immediately isolated**, and the breeding pond and the environment should be disinfected.

2) Antibiotics such as chloramphenicol and oxytetracycline can be used for sick turtles.

3) Intramuscular injection with chloramphenicol injection, 100,000 IU per 500 grams of turtles

Change the water frequently, and if it's tap water, it's best to use it in the sun for two days. The breed is not known.

Tap water must be exposed to the sun before it can be used!

Corrosion is caused by the chemicals of tap water.

I don't know if my tortoise and yours are suffering from a disease. My family is a young turtle, also an abdominal carapace, with a relatively large white circle, and the shell around it is ...... peelingWell......It's transparent and can be torn off. Later, the white hole widened again, and I felt that something was wrong, so I groped for the surface of the white hole (because this hole is close to the boundary between the abdominal carapace and the abdominal carapace, so the epidermis of the abdominal carapace can be easily removed.)

The surface of the ventral carapace was picked open, and a large piece of decay was picked out with tweezers, which should be carapace, white. Then the place became a hollow, but there was still a layer of skin on the surface of the transparent carapace. You can see it**.

At first, I dissolved oxytetracycline into a sludge and stuffed it into a cavity, but it didn't work, so I switched to oxytetracycline, and now the wound has begun to heal and the hole has started to get smaller.

The ** disease of the turtle is called rotten skin, and the reasons are:

The feeding environment is poor or sensitive to water quality or traumatized, and the turtle cannot resist the invasion of pathogenic microorganisms, resulting in white, grayish, and ulcerated epidermis, and in severe cases, it cracks, revealing bright red subcutaneous tissue.

Cleaning and disinfection of feeding containers.

It is recommended to dry nourish, bathe 2-3 times a day, 10-15 minutes each time. Or dry and water alternately raised, seedlings can be dried for 4 hours, water for 1 hour. The dry rearing time of highly aquatic turtles should be as long as possible after application.

When dry-raising, use 5% povidone-iodine solution to coat the affected area, wipe off the liquid after 1-2 minutes and then apply erythromycin ointment, 3 times a day, when water-raised, you can use 5% povidone-iodine solution: water 1 ml: (500-1000) ml of the ratio of the liquid to soak the sick turtle (let the turtle drink enough water before bathing).

Turtles with severe skin decay or refusal to eat due to skin decay can be combined with oral antibiotics**, and cephalosporins can be selected as drugs.

It is likely that the turtle is loose or the water is not clean. In the initial stage, the water source can be directly replaced, but when the tap water is replaced, it should be noted that the tap water is left for more than two hours before being used for teasing the turtle, mainly because there are certain disinfectants in the tap water. Then observe that if there is still floating debris after the water change, it is necessary to consider that the turtle is sick and can be sent to the hospital for examination.

1. It may be peeling, the reason may be caused by the direct use of tap water without chlorine removal, or it may be due to the growth of the body;

2. It may be because the turtle has pneumonia and secretes germs from the mouth and nose;

3. It may be that the skin of the baby turtle is shed by the normal physiological metabolism of the turtle, and the turtle will have normal physiological metabolism and peel off from time to time;

4. There are white finger-colored floats in the water, which are generally food residues or oil residues left over from meat such as pork, and the white floats are likely to be turtle excrement, and such excrement is generally caused by turtle enteritis, which is caused by rapid temperature changes and abnormal feeding.