Hello, it's been awhile since I've been on this forum. I've had an RES for a little more than a year now and he's been in the same enclosure since he was 2" and now he's more than 4". He's in an unheated filtered tank (I live just beside the equator line and the climate here is pretty hot so the...
Hi guys, my turtle threw up while in the midst of feeding, I think he choked and so he threw up what looked like clumps of undigested pellets, which are what I usually feed him. He gagged and vomitted twice and is in discomfort for about 5 minutes, before returning to scavenge for food again...
I have only just discovered one of my RES has this little red spot. You can see it in the picture. I hope this isn't what they call blood poisoning... Any advices on what I should do?
Hi guys. So... its been almost a year since I got my turtle at 2-2.5" and it hasn't grow at all. I mean, it might've grown but it's at a really slow pace.
Hi I know its been a long time. But I have a question. Does anyone know what it is if an RES sheds skin that is pinkish in colour? Is it that they are changing colours soon? Thanks
Hi. I have 2 RES and I got them for about 4-5months, and one has grown from 1.5" to almost 3" now. Her name is Ocean, and she is starving all the time! She gobbles up her food I give once daily, she eats up her own poop when she sees it and just tonight after feeding I put them back into their...
So I just came back from the vet, because Sky is swimming lopsided and Ocean is shedding skin excessively. Sky was given 3 xrays (top, middle and bottom) and is confirmed he has pneumonia. The vet has given him a shot of Baytril and I learned how to give it to Ocean at the clinic, because I was...
Just wanted to throw a question in here, because one of my RES has been shedding skin for quite sometime now. So I wanted to confirm this with the people on the forum before trying it out. If I let him swim in salt water (just slightly salted), will it help him shed his skin properly?
(I'm not...
Sorry that wasn't a very good title but I don't really know how to describe it but to provide a picture. So basically around the edge of the shell are those blackish lines - is that something I need to take note of? Thanks!
Okay so I have 2 RESes, 1.75" & 2.25". I feed both twice a day, the smaller one 3 adult sticks each time, the bigger one 5 each time.
I know they love to beg, but then whenever they see me they would swim up to me and paddle really furiously kinda like they really ARE starving even right after...
One of my turtles is shedding a lot and the water has pieces of skin that floats around. They are also quite big, as big as the pad of my thumb. My other slider is fine. No skin hanging out.
Attached is a picture to show how bad it is, well to me at least because I've never seen it like this...
Attached is a picture showing what I sucked out from my RES tank. There are bits of normal poop (at least to me its normal) but if you can see (sorry for bad picture) there are thread like things in there. Are those worms or is that still normal? Because at the cloaca of my RES there are no...
Hi, I need tips on getting baby RES to eat veggies. I have 2 RES, 1 grew from 1.5" to 2" in a month. The other stayed at 1.5".
So now they're both refusing kale, when they used to love it a lot. I tired spring mix as suggested, but they would take a bite and spit it out. Now they're doing the...
I have 2 RESes for a month now. When I got them, they were 1.5" but now, one of them remained at 1.5" while the other got to 1.75"
So is this rate (for both of them) normal? Also how do you tell their age? Thanks!
My turtles have been yawning a lot on land and in water as well. And just this morning one of them had bubbles out her nose! They were clear and they popped immediately, but I'm worried. Could they have contracted RI?
I don't have a water heater because room temp water for me is already 84-86...
Hi, I find that feeding inside the tank makes the water dirty extremely quickly. So I would like to ask if I can feed them in a separate bowl and would that be better? Thanks!
Okay so just now (this morning) I noticed one of my RES poop out some kind of smoky thing. Sorry I didn't know how to very well describe it but in the water it looked like light brown and white trails, it looks like smoke just underwater. Is that him having diarrhea? And what could have possibly...
Is there anything I can do to help them shed the skin ay their necks, whih seem to hang for a long time. It is shedding, but quite slowly. I've heard soaking them in lukewarm water with a pinch of salt. Will that work? Thanks!