Hi,
I registered here because i need some help.
This turtle have been here for 10 days. So far it have been eating "Hikari Sinking Cichlid Excel", banana, and pear. Three days ago i noticed something that to me looks like patches/shreds of tissue on its shell. The turtle have been eating and swimming around alot, sleeping now and then. Seems to me like it has been thriving.
But today it is a bitt less active.
I have searched the internet and read a lot, looked at so many pictures, and spesificly tried to find pictures of other fly river turtles with simular looking problem (if it is a problem). Going through tons of info, but i am having a hard time figuring out what to do exactly, since im not sure what it is.
I have set the temperature to about 28 celsius (82-83 fahrenheit). The pH is at 7,2 - 7,5. No ammonia or nitrite (been checking it two times daily for these last three days). The water is pretty soft here, so i have added crushed limestone and bit of crushed corall in a "air canister", and a larger piece of limestone. The turtle get about 4 hours of sunlight every day (goes through a window, and in addition though the aquarium glass (good enough?)). It have a good and pretty dark hiding spot behind the main filter (a pretty big piece of swamp with a power head on it, with a air diffusor). I have also added an extra airstone recently.
Today i have added a total of 4 tablespoons of salt (topped) for this 115 liter (about 30 gallons) aquarium. Also added a bit of Aqua Safe. I have used this method for stingrays and other species of fish countless times earlier, to kill off fungus. Is there a chanse that this would work for a fly river turtle?
See the picture of the whole setup further down here.
I am very scared of the feedback i will get (if i get any), because I am very scared of loosing the turtle.
I really hope that it is just a normal cycle of skin-shedding..?
Take a look at the pictures:
In the first picture you can see a large white/gray spot on the shell, a bit to the left of the tail. It is not actually on the shell, it is just something stuck on the aquarium glass.
Focus on the top of the shell. There you can see these patches/shreds.
Picture of the aquarium where the turtle is kept. In case anyone wonder: the thing in the center of the aquarium is a piece of banana attached to a stainless fork. The black wire leads to a temperature gauge.
I registered here because i need some help.
This turtle have been here for 10 days. So far it have been eating "Hikari Sinking Cichlid Excel", banana, and pear. Three days ago i noticed something that to me looks like patches/shreds of tissue on its shell. The turtle have been eating and swimming around alot, sleeping now and then. Seems to me like it has been thriving.
But today it is a bitt less active.
I have searched the internet and read a lot, looked at so many pictures, and spesificly tried to find pictures of other fly river turtles with simular looking problem (if it is a problem). Going through tons of info, but i am having a hard time figuring out what to do exactly, since im not sure what it is.
I have set the temperature to about 28 celsius (82-83 fahrenheit). The pH is at 7,2 - 7,5. No ammonia or nitrite (been checking it two times daily for these last three days). The water is pretty soft here, so i have added crushed limestone and bit of crushed corall in a "air canister", and a larger piece of limestone. The turtle get about 4 hours of sunlight every day (goes through a window, and in addition though the aquarium glass (good enough?)). It have a good and pretty dark hiding spot behind the main filter (a pretty big piece of swamp with a power head on it, with a air diffusor). I have also added an extra airstone recently.
Today i have added a total of 4 tablespoons of salt (topped) for this 115 liter (about 30 gallons) aquarium. Also added a bit of Aqua Safe. I have used this method for stingrays and other species of fish countless times earlier, to kill off fungus. Is there a chanse that this would work for a fly river turtle?
See the picture of the whole setup further down here.
I am very scared of the feedback i will get (if i get any), because I am very scared of loosing the turtle.
I really hope that it is just a normal cycle of skin-shedding..?
Take a look at the pictures:
In the first picture you can see a large white/gray spot on the shell, a bit to the left of the tail. It is not actually on the shell, it is just something stuck on the aquarium glass.
Focus on the top of the shell. There you can see these patches/shreds.
Picture of the aquarium where the turtle is kept. In case anyone wonder: the thing in the center of the aquarium is a piece of banana attached to a stainless fork. The black wire leads to a temperature gauge.
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