Help please! Is this normal?

[adamlikesbananas]

My quarter sized RES's butt looks swollen and has a little poop on it. Should I be worried? Is he constipated? What do i do? Sorry for the low quality pics. I've looked at my other turtle and his butt isn't swollen like that.

 

[wellington]

The pics are too blurry to really see good. Maybe someone will be able to help. Try to get better pics too if you can.

 

[JoesMum]

In the meantime, some good long soaks (30 mins plus) will help with any constipation... although RES should be getting plenty of water anyway shouldn't they?

 

[adamlikesbananas]

In the meantime, some good long soaks (30 mins plus) will help with any constipation... although RES should be getting plenty of water anyway shouldn't they?

Yes I just took him out of his tank so i could take pictures.

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The pics are too blurry to really see good. Maybe someone will be able to help. Try to get better pics too if you can.

Yeah I'll try to get better pics but he is smaller than a quarter and I'm using an iPod touch 4.

 

[lkwagner]

I really can't see the pics, but are you sure its poop and not a prolapse? What are you feeding it? Is there gravel in the bottom of the tank?

 

[adamlikesbananas]

I really can't see the pics, but are you sure its poop and not a prolapse? What are you feeding it? Is there gravel in the bottom of the tank?

I don't know what a prolapse is but I've been feeding him reptomin hatchling diet and I've been breaking it in half so he can eat it better. Yes there is gravel in the tank but its far to big for him to eat.

 

[lkwagner]

Are you sure its "poop", google images of "turtle with prolapse" and see if that's what it is. We can't really help you much more without different pics but google that and see

 

[adamlikesbananas]

Are you sure its "poop", google images of "turtle with prolapse" and see if that's what it is. We can't really help you much more without different pics but google that and see

Yeah it's definetly not a prolapse, I think he just pooped a little. I will get better pics ASAP if i can

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There, these are the best pics i can get.
Also I'm currently researching all turtle diseases to see what it is

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Btw all the pics are of his butt if you can't already tell.

 

[Yvonne G]

I can't tell by the pictures, but it could be that he has swallowed some rocks/pebbles and is having a hard time passing them.

 

[adamlikesbananas]

I can't tell by the pictures, but it could be that he has swallowed some rocks/pebbles and is having a hard time passing them.

I don't have any rocks he could eat. What can I do to help him if he has swallowed something?

 

[sibi]

Perhaps there was a small pebble in the gravel that he ate. If it was, and he ate it, he's trying to poop it out. You can wait and see if he poops it out himself, or you can use a small eye dropper with only mineral oil and try to get some squirted up his butt. He's really too small...just a hatchling, so, you'd want to do it right. If you feel uncomfortable with it, and he hasn't pooped it out in a couple of days, I'd see a vet and let him do it. Is there any way you can take your thumb and index finger and get a hold of this lump and apply slight pressure so as to squeeze it out? I would first try that before anything else. He's so small...I hope you can do this. Btw, when i mentioned mineral oil, I mean just mineral oil; no other oil, no mix of mineral oil with something else. Just plain mineral oil.

 

[adamlikesbananas]

Perhaps there was a small pebble in the gravel that he ate. If it was, and he ate it, he's trying to poop it out. You can wait and see if he poops it out himself, or you can use a small eye dropper with only mineral oil and try to get some squirted up his butt. He's really too small...just a hatchling, so, you'd want to do it right. If you feel uncomfortable with it, and he hasn't pooped it out in a couple of days, I'd see a vet and let him do it. Is there any way you can take your thumb and index finger and get a hold of this lump and apply slight pressure so as to squeeze it out? I would first try that before anything else. He's so small...I hope you can do this. Btw, when i mentioned mineral oil, I mean just mineral oil; no other oil, no mix of mineral oil with something else. Just plain mineral oil.

Thank you! The lump is a little too big to be a pebble, being that it is too large for him to have fit in his mouth.
Also, the "lump" has gone away! He has started eating and has become more friendly and has completely changed from the shy sickly turtle that didnt want to eat anything!

 

[lkwagner]

That's great news!

 

[adamlikesbananas]

That's great news!

 

[lizbeth490]

Glad to her the little one is doing better, from what I could see in the pics it didnt look like anything to be too worried about :]