How to judge whether the tortoise is sick? What are the manifestations of different diseases? How to treat it?

Although the turtle is small, its life is a matter of heaven!

In the process of raising turtles, I often meet or communicate with other turtle friends: My turtle looks abnormal, is it sick? Many turtle friends won't watch or don't know how to delay treatment, which leads to turtles going to turtle planet. So how to judge whether the tortoise is sick and how to treat it if it is sick? Let me tell you many years in Master Roshi!

Because there are many diseases of turtles, here are some common diseases for your reference.

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1. Rotten skin

Speaking of rotten skin, I believe everyone in Master Roshi has encountered it, especially the turtle, commonly known as the "king of rotten skin", which soon rotted away and became a masked superman.

Judgment method:

The naked eye can see that the turtle's skin is white with slight ulceration. In severe cases, the wound is deep and even the bones can be seen.

Treatment:

1) isolate sick turtles. If the skin is slightly rotten, it can be properly dried and basked in the sun. The container for raising turtles is diluted with potassium permanganate and soaked for 24 hours for disinfection. ?

2) Severe soft-shelled turtle can disinfect the wound with iodine first, and then apply chlortetracycline eye ointment (erythromycin eye ointment) to the wound for dry culture twice a day.

3) During the recovery of rotten skin, it can be seen that the wound of soft-shelled turtle began to recover, and the festering area did not expand and scabs formed. At this time, don't hurry to remove the scab, let the turtle fall off naturally, and you can see the new skin after falling off.

Note: Young turtle seedlings can't keep dry for a long time, so they can be put into a sterilized jar after 30 minutes of application and replaced with cold boiled water.

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2. Rotten nails and rotten nails

This is also a common disease of turtles, mainly because the water quality is not clean and bacteria invade the turtle shell.

Judgment method:

White spots began to appear at first, and there were some slag-like substances.

Slowly form red spots, squeeze hard and there is blood oozing, and some have the smell of decay. Severe crustaceans will rot into a hole on the surface, and the armpit and buttock fossa will swell. At first, the sick turtle couldn't eat or move, and seemed to have little strength, and it also shrank. Don't wait until it's so serious to treat it. There's nothing you can do.

Treatment:

1) isolate sick turtles, and it is best to dry them in the early stage. Mix and disinfect the container with potassium permanganate and water for 24 hours, and feed more calcium-containing shrimp skin and small fish.

2) Remove the epidermis from the rotten part of the turtle with a knife, clean the loose cuticle inside, clean and disinfect it with hydrogen peroxide, and smear it with povidone iodine or diluted purple liquid at least 1 to 2 times a day. Get more sunshine.

3) Appropriate amount of antibiotics (cephalosporins, etc.) can be added to the turtle food for serious turtles. If turtles stop eating because of bad nails, they can be taken directly to different pet hospitals for antibiotics injection.

4) As long as the rotten nail is not further enlarged and has no rancid smell, the dug rotten place is scarred and hardened, which proves that the treatment is effective. You can stop the treatment, pay attention to changing the water regularly and disinfect the turtle container.

Note: Young turtle seedlings are also not suitable for dry farming. After 30 minutes of dry culture, chlortetracycline can be applied to the affected area to isolate sleep and improve the durability of the drug.

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3. Gastroenteritis

This is mainly the pot in Master Roshi, which is mainly caused by feeding stale food or poor water quality.

Judgment method:

At first, the turtle showed general malaise, decreased activity, a small amount of mucus or soft stool in the stool, yellow, green or dark green, and was not active in eating.

If the turtle becomes serious, the poop is a jet of water, blood red or dark brown, and the turtle begins to stop eating at this time.

Treatment:

1) Mild turtles can be added with antibiotics (cephalosporins, etc. ), lactic acid bacteria tablets, furazolidone for diarrhea, and soaking soft-shelled turtle with Mommy every day.

2) If the serious soft-shelled turtle does not eat directly, antibiotics or 20mg/kg oxytetracycline and furazolidone tablets can be given.

Attention: Don't feed the turtle with rotten food, keep the turtle water clean, feed the turtle in small quantities when the weather temperature is low, and don't feed the turtle for half a month before hibernation.

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4. Scabies

This disease is caused by bacterial infection, so we must pay attention to it. Infectious thieves are very strong. If there are many turtles, all the other turtles should be caught together and soaked separately, just in case, and the fishbowl should be disinfected to avoid infection.

Judgment method:

There are white ulcerated spots and lumps as big as mung beans or soybeans on the limbs and neck.

Treatment:

1) Once a sick turtle is found, isolate it immediately and disinfect the container.

2) Dry-raise sick turtles, pick scabies with tools, and squeeze out pus-like and bean dregs-like objects by hand. Disinfect with povidone iodine or iodophor after extrusion, and apply erythromycin ointment.

I summarized the above four turtle diseases. I hope everyone's turtles can live a long and healthy life!