My turtle's reservoir have a small black worm any suggestion?
The other day i saw a small black warm, it kinda looked like a mosquito, it was like a couple cm long, it was wiggle on the side of the tank. My turtles are like 1-2 inches long, ive only have them for 3 months. Me and my friend got them from new york and i live in washington... so im on west coast. My turtles look fine, ive just found 1 worm, my turtles look healthy, they eat, they poop, they swim fine, and they look fine. They love to stay in the hose down. Wat should i do? do you guys think anythings wrong?
it probally come out of his poop
iv seen that 2 in my container exept like way shorter and also sometimes turtles poop looks like fish poop
Answers: Turtles (like most animals) can have intestinal worms. Over time, worms can expend a lot of the turtle's punch to feed them. Some worms may be found protruding from the vent of a turtle. Fecal samples can be checked by the caretaker or a vet and a dewormer prescribed.
Botfly, Aquatic turtles can also get them. These show up as immense bumps, usually around the head and legs. If the bump is over the ear, it may be an infected ear drum which needs lance. If the bumps are elsewhere, they are most likely botflies which are larvae of the botfly (a single maggot) under within. The area has to be lanced and crammed with antibiotics by a vet or professional turtle rehabilitator.
Turtles are also prone to regular fly maggots if they have an get underway wound. A female fly will lay eggs in any open wound. The eggs are approaching tiny grains of rice and should be flushed out if seen up to that time hatching. Once hatched, the maggots will eat the live turtle's flesh and own to be flushed and picked out by hand, the wound being packed next to antibiotics. While one or two botflies probably will not kill a turtle, many of them or a single infestation of regular maggots (that is a mass of larvae) can easily execute even a healthy turtle.
some advice...
Remember 10 gallons for every inch of turtle. I have used kiddy pools and plastic pond liner from most nurseries and now a 150 gal pond.
They are the coolest. Not cuddly pets at all. And a life time commitment.
Sliders, cooters , painted, map, pallid bellied all are basically the same and require one and the same basic care.
For their needed protein and calcium drop 20 or so feeder guppies, goldfish or minnows in the container and watch them disappear in a few days! When I got these two 36 yrs ago adjectives we had in back next were goldfish to feed , so after 36 yrs and still going strong. They can eat goldfish!
This road when they swim for their dinner they get exercise also! TOSS in a bird cuttle bone in the dampen for calcium that will promote better shell growth, it will dissolve real slow and if they eat it that’s fine!!
They can own garden worms, meal worms, snails, crickets, flies, crayfish small frogs, slugs, tadpoles dragon flies and anything that moves, but only as a treat.
They need leafy greens Romaine, Butter lettuce. (Iceberg and cabbage are discouraging for them, any other leafy greens will do) for vitamin A that they need at least 3 to 4 times a week.
They love grapes and strawberries and squash..
Did you know that they need to bask lower than a reptile light UVA/UVB for up to 8 hrs a day for the vitamin D that they need to grow. So that scheme getting a turtle dock also.
Leave the heater on 75 to 78 degrees always.
These turtles surrounded by captivity do not hibernate their eating may slow down some but they will not hibernate.
These are not cuddly pets and will bite very very not easy.
Under 4" they carry a disease called 'salmonella'. So you must wash after every handling. These guys can become cannibalistic and will eliminate the smallest turtle if there is not enough room and food.
And my pictures don't fake. All ages and all sizes get along as long as their is allot for swim room and plenty to eat!
Their dampen needs to be clean otherwise they get sick confidently from dirty water cause they poop allot. You need a upright filter system!
Total Body length: 5-8" average for males, up to 12 inches max for females. Life span: 15-25+ years
Males have the longer front nails and are used in mate. And are considered mature at about 5 yrs old. You can’t start sexing till going on for 3” across.
Gravel larger than they can swallow.
They sleep at the bottom of rivers, streams. lakes or ponds or your tank to avoid predators like coyotes, foxes, owls, hawks, possums, raccoons and even some general mouth bass and us humans.
You probably already know that they get sick easily, shell rot, respiratory sickness, lopsided swimming, coughing, blowing bubbles from their nose. Fungus white cotton patch on their skin?
**Swollen cloudy eyes which means lacking in Vitamin A. Which we adjectives need for good eyes. Google ‘vegetables with Vitamin A.
Contact the “www.anapsid.org/societies, for a turtle vet / RESCUE within your city and state. I wish you luck.
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