Hello everyone, I hope you all are doing great,
I'm new here, this is my first post,
I hope if you can help me save my little friend,
I bought this aquatic turtle 2 months ago,
I believe it's a Red-eared slider,
everything was fine until 2 days ago,
I noticed something strange in his leg, white fungus maybe?
Anyway I've got 6 baby turtles, as soon as I noticed, I took him out and I separated him from the rest of the turtles,
Usually, I change their water twice a day,
I even stopped using any lamps, and I bought 2 aquariums, one in the balcony +10 hours a day,
and the other inside my room for sleeping time,
and i move the turtles every day between the 2,
the water is super clean all the time, so my turtles gets the light straight from the sun, with about 5 cm of water
in each of my aquarium,
At first, I thought his leg might have been bitten by another turtle because they usually do that to each other, but after a closer look I don't think it's a bite, now he is alone in his aquarium, with a large rock for basking area,
what should I do now?
To me, it seems like it's getting worse, i don't want to lose him.
I heard that there is a powder that I need to put in the water to kill all the bacteria, but i have no clue about that,
things to know
no vets nearby would accept anything other than cats and dogs.
I tried and I had no luck.
I live outside the US, some medcines might not be available where I live
What i'm looking for:
things like, change the water every 2 hours, add salt to kill the Bactria or something, keep water temperature above that, feed him something like this etc...,
things like that, which I can do by myself.
I still remember a few years ago I had an iridescent shark in my aquarium which had a swim-bladder,
I took him to 10 vets with no luck,
I spent 15 days changing his water 10 times a day, keeping water hot, adding salt, hand feeding, and eventually I got my shark back, and I'm ready for this fight,
please help me guys,
and all what I'm hoping for now is to share his video after he gets better and thank every single one of you for that.
Thanks.
Here is a video of the issue
Update #1
the white thing seems to be vanished after my turtle was out of water for a few hours,
after putting him back in the water, that white thing is visible again.
I'm new here, this is my first post,
I hope if you can help me save my little friend,
I bought this aquatic turtle 2 months ago,
I believe it's a Red-eared slider,
everything was fine until 2 days ago,
I noticed something strange in his leg, white fungus maybe?
Anyway I've got 6 baby turtles, as soon as I noticed, I took him out and I separated him from the rest of the turtles,
Usually, I change their water twice a day,
I even stopped using any lamps, and I bought 2 aquariums, one in the balcony +10 hours a day,
and the other inside my room for sleeping time,
and i move the turtles every day between the 2,
the water is super clean all the time, so my turtles gets the light straight from the sun, with about 5 cm of water
in each of my aquarium,
At first, I thought his leg might have been bitten by another turtle because they usually do that to each other, but after a closer look I don't think it's a bite, now he is alone in his aquarium, with a large rock for basking area,
what should I do now?
To me, it seems like it's getting worse, i don't want to lose him.
I heard that there is a powder that I need to put in the water to kill all the bacteria, but i have no clue about that,
things to know
no vets nearby would accept anything other than cats and dogs.
I tried and I had no luck.
I live outside the US, some medcines might not be available where I live
What i'm looking for:
things like, change the water every 2 hours, add salt to kill the Bactria or something, keep water temperature above that, feed him something like this etc...,
things like that, which I can do by myself.
I still remember a few years ago I had an iridescent shark in my aquarium which had a swim-bladder,
I took him to 10 vets with no luck,
I spent 15 days changing his water 10 times a day, keeping water hot, adding salt, hand feeding, and eventually I got my shark back, and I'm ready for this fight,
please help me guys,
and all what I'm hoping for now is to share his video after he gets better and thank every single one of you for that.
Thanks.
Here is a video of the issue
Update #1
the white thing seems to be vanished after my turtle was out of water for a few hours,
after putting him back in the water, that white thing is visible again.
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