How to treat tortoise rot beetle disease, how to treat tortoise rot carapace

1. Mild rotten armor (superficial rotten armor) 1. The superficial rotten armor that has just been formed is recommended to be dried raised, and the turtle has the ability to adjust itself. Some common topical anti-inflammatory creams can be used to apply to the affected area. 2. The surface is a floating dead nail, and there is a slag sample under the dead nail, and a new nail layer has been formed under the slag sample.

Treatment: Use a toothpick or razor blade to gently pick off floating dead nails and slag, wash and disinfect with 5% povidone-iodine solution, and then apply erythromycin ointment or chlortetracycline ointment. Feeding:

Dry rearing for two weeks, soak in water two to three times a day, feed in the bath, after leaving the water, dry the body of the turtle, wash and disinfect with 5% povidone-iodine solution, and apply erythromycin eye ointment or chlortetracycline eye ointment. Tortoises are better to serve. 2. Diagnosis of moderate and severe rot nails:

Some of the dorsal or abdominal carapaces of turtles have a large number of small needle holes, some of the affected areas are soft, some of the affected areas are erosive, and in severe cases, they will emit a strong rancid smell, and they will ulcerate into holes and perforations. In general, if there is a fishy smell or a light rancid odor, the infection is already severe. (The rotting armor of Huang Yuan is not easy to detect in the early stage, and when there is a rancid smell, it is very serious.)

For moderate rotten nails, personal experience and feedback from some turtle friends, external drugs plus oral drugs, in most cases, treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and it is difficult to do it repeatedly. **: It is recommended to use antibiotics for injection for moderate and severe nail decay**, the course of treatment is 7 10 days, and the more severe cases are extended to 14 days, and the second course of treatment is required in special circumstances.

Advice: Don't make a big deal about the parts of the bone plate that are soft due to bacterial infection, and the brutal excavation will undoubtedly make it worse.

How can I cure the tortoise's rotting nail?

1 The ** of the rotting armor, the rotting armor is a more serious and thorny disease in the decay of the turtle's body, the early rotting armor of the turtle can maintain good water quality, get a drying platform, the kind that the turtle can climb up, and then place it on the balcony to receive the sun, the turtle with the rotting nail disease will climb the stone to bask in the sun, the sun can dry the turtle's back carapace, enhance the calcium, more strong, and the rotten nail will heal naturally after a few months.

2. For moderate and severe rotten nails, use tweezers to clip out the rotten flesh of the rotten nails, and clean up all the rotten flesh in the injured area, pay attention; When clipping, pay attention to the soft layer of the turtle's dorsal carapace, the part that looks yellow and is relatively healthy, that is the part of the turtle that is growing well and is not infected, just remove the black-brown pus decaying place, in case the tortoise carapace is injured and infected.

3. After the rotten area is removed, it is disinfected with hydrogen peroxide, and the wound is smeared with chlortetracycline or Yunnan Baiyao, and placed in dry nourishment, with water for up to one hour a day, and then put it in clean water for one star to expect the wound to heal.

Maintain water quality and water temperature to prevent turtles from getting sick.