So Vinnie has now been climbing onto the basking area every day unassissted. He also know his way back into the water. He's very good for his antibiotic injections (has 3 left...yay!). He has become great to hand feed needing only a little prompting now before opening wide for a bite of...
Yes Maggie, I'm using insulin syringes. He is so small and to have to hold his little leg still and inject sub-Q is just...gah! O.O
But I'm getting goof at it!
He now voraciously tries to eat the pellet when I put it in his mouth lol. He can still only eat a bite of it, but he's trying!
Oh and he gained a full gram since last week :D
Tony - I do soften them a little first, but if I try to cut them while soft they turn to mush. He's getting better at...
My name is Saranna. I know he's so small you can feel him moving through his shell -.- My fiance is scared to hold him for his injections lol. He had 2 "bites" of pellet today...maybe we'll try 3 tomorrow. And he moved from the basking area to the water on his own today! I was very happy to see...
If I break up the pellets smaller, I can't grasp them with the feeding tongs and leave him something to grab.
Hmm...dropper feeding. I may have to try that one.[hr]
Got pictures! In the first one...can you find the Vinnie? ;)
It's the baby ones that are too big lol. He's a tiny tiny thing. I need to get pictures...I'll do that this morning.
This morning I went down and turned on all the lights (really really need to get a timer!), switched the clothes, then got a pellet for him. I was holding it in the water with...
Ok, so we like Reptomin baby! BUT the pellet is still too big for him. I can get 1/4 of it in his mouth, then he swims around until it softens and swallows the 1/4 bit then leaves the rest I've tried softening it first (it just falls apart though), I've tried breaking it into smaller peices but...
Well, I went downstairs to do clothes and Vinnie was...
Out of the water and on the first step of the basking area! I woke him up and we tried eating again. He ate the end of a waxworm :D I got a second piece in his mouth 3 times and he spit it out all three times. I guess he said one was...
He hasn't been eating anything. He's drank during the sweet potato soak a couple times though. His yolk sac scar is now gone...so he should be getting hungry right? I've tried pellets 3 times and he runs from them.
So we think he's going to be blind completely, but will try tetramycin ointment just in case. He's now on Vit C and Amikacin inj (getting Vit A during soaks). When I brought him outside today and he felt the sun he was a different little turtle. He was trying to climb out of the container...
I put him in his soak tonight and off he went swimming around the container before settling down. I put him back into his tub and off he went again. He did flip himself over twice though in the water. The first time I helped him...the second I watched. He swam upside down for a few strokes and...
I put him in a sweet potato soak today and....wait for it...
He took two sips! Now he's actually swimming back and forth across the mini tub! Swelling is down slightly, other side still not bleeding and looks to be closing up. He still has the head tilt to that side so I'm wondering if that's...
Eye is still intact and some of the cloud looks like it's fading. Can't tell if the swelling is going down or not though. I put him on the land area and he took 3 steps! Before he would just sit where ever I set him down. It's the third day for the antibiotic...how long should he be treated for...
I've been doing the Maracyn2 for 2 days now. Eye has stopped bleeding again - other one is still there. I assume triple antibiotic opthalmic ointment will be ok? Mom found him teetering on the "steps" between the land and water so she put him under the heat lamps. When I came home he was dry and...
He seems slightly stronger today He's clinging to things and starting to "crawl" onto them. The other eye is still hanging in there although it's still very swollen. Also, the other one has blood around it again. Could that be the antibiotic drawing stuff out?
Hmm....maybe I should take him to...
I spoke with the woman who gave him to me and she said if he survives (he does seem like a little fighter, weak, but a fighter) we'll build him a covered habitat at the farm. This way he'll be safe, but will get individual attention as well.
I've been moving him to the basking area for an hour...
I got the Maracyn2 and added it to his water today. I found the...erm...eye It was severely clouded and damaged so if they're that mad maybe it's a good thing it happened. If he's meant to survive as a blind turtle, then he shall. I can at least keep him until he's a bit bigger, but unless I...
Maggie: I found my little heat lamp last night and put it on. Of course I had put it back in the box...what was I thinking? *roll eyes* Someone suggested to me to get the Maracyn2 so I can put it right in the water...is that ok? I have terramycin left I think from our chicken when she was a...
So...yea, I really do need to learn to say no -.-
Someone I know called me this morning saying she had a baby turtle about the size of a quarter given to her because the original person "found it" and didn't have time to care for it. They had it two weeks (the original person) and kept it...
As babies I keep bare bottom tanks. When they graduated to the 150 gallon stock tank, I used crushed coral and large river rocks. They seem to like the mix and I actually found Dino hald buried in the coral last night sleeping. Lots of hiding places, plants, driftwood and what not to explore...