The trachea is truly the most unpretentious animal. However, proper care and hygiene of its content are simply necessary, because the animal is susceptible to various diseases. How to understand that a pet is sick? What diseases of eared turtles are found? Let's try to figure it out.
Red-eared Turtle Disease - eyelid edema
Very often it is eyes that become inflamed in red-eared turtles . Eye swelling indicates many possible diseases, such as rickets, pneumonia, vitamin deficiency, conjunctivitis, fungal diseases.
One or both centuries of a pet can swell. If the edema is partial, then the turtle can slightly open its eyes, if the edema is complete, then the eyes do not open at all. The tortoise eats less than usual, moves strangely, as she sees nothing. As a result, the pet rubs his eyes with his paws, thereby only aggravating the situation.
Red-eared Turtle Disease - Leaking from the nose and mouth
Leakage from the nose and mouth is another symptom often found in turtles. He usually talks about the inflammatory process of the respiratory tract or a viral disease. The appearance of a common cold and a lack of vitamin A is also characteristic.
Swimming roll
Red-eared Turtle Disease with such a symptom may indicate that she ate small stones from the soil of the aquarium. But it can also speak of pneumonia, especially if there is an additional syndrome - swelling of the eyelids and runny nose.
Soft shell
The softness of the shell can also speak of the disease of the red-eared turtles. You can understand this if you lightly press on it with your finger. Most often, rickets are manifested. Young individuals are usually ill with rickets. At first, the pet eats poorly and cannot coordinate its movements. Gradually, the shell deforms, it becomes like a saddle or a dome. The upper jaw of the turtle turns into a beak, sometimes even very large. Gradually, the jaw cracks and bifurcates. The lower jaw softens.
The soft shell in an adult indicates osteomalacia. And the reason in both cases is poor nutrition.
Skin problems
A bacterial or fungal infection is a common disease of the Red-eared Turtle. Symptoms of the disease are peeling of the skin and the appearance of “corroded” places on the shell. Burns from hot water are possible. If burns are regarded as burns of the first and second degree, then the pet can survive, but a severe burn leads to death.
Swelling in the ear area
The ears of a turtle are an area of red stripes. If there is a swelling in this place, then we can talk about a disease such as otitis media. This happens due to hypothermia, less often - due to injury.
Specks under the shell
The spots may be pink or red and indicate kidney problems. Swelling of the legs indicates gout. Such a disease should be treated immediately, otherwise the animal dies rather quickly.
Lethargy and poor appetite
These symptoms may accompany any of these diseases. The best thing in this situation is to immediately show the pet to the veterinarian without waiting for the following symptoms.
Rubella tortoises, diseases and treatment
There is such a profession as a herpetologist. It is he who treats reptiles and amphibians. It’s more correct not to engage in self-healing, but to contact just such a doctor, otherwise it may turn out that it is much more difficult to remove the consequences of self-treatment of the tortoise than the disease itself.