Hello, I really need your help, I bought 5 Red-eared sliders about 4 months ago,
they're very small, all of a sudden, one of them start showing weird symptoms,
puffy eyes, no appetite, I've searched google to figure out the cause of such symptoms,
all results were pointing at poor water quality or vitamin A decrease,
there were only one vet in my city, and it's not specialized in reptiles and I don't trust them,
he gave my turtle a vitamin injection and antibiotic injection multiple times on the span of 3 weeks,
and he told me to add antibiotic drops on top of the food, the turtle didn't get any better,
eventually, the turtle died.
A few days later, I noticed that 3 of my turtle are showing the same symptoms,
I isolated these turtles, each one in a separate plastic container filled with water with a rock to stand on,
one of them was making a sound when I hold it up in my hand,
a week later 2 of them died, I'm left with only 3 turtles, each of them are in its own container,
2 are sick and 1 is doing fine.
They all are getting +10 hours of sun,
with water being changed every day, I'm even washing the rocks.
But they are going on the same path as the previous turtles, they are not eating,
it has been over a week without any food, I tried to force-feed them, but I couldn't because the turtles are very small.
They are active when I hold them up in my hand,
of course their eyes are swollen, and they won't eat anything at all,
but I believe I still got hope to save them.
About 1 week without eating and the eyes are fully closed.
What can I do? Can I offer them any medication? Injections?
Unfortunately I live very far away, a lot of money but so little products.
Things that are designed especially for reptiles are not available where I live,
Any human medication is available here, of course, if I can use one in such case.
I'll be moving in the next few months to Belgium, where a lot of vets are available.,
but until then, I really don't know what to do.
Conditions:
water type:
previously, from the water tap,
currently, from a water bottle" like the ones you buy from store"
Full water change every day.
Light source:
No bulb, direct sunlight for +10 hours a day.
Food:
Aquatic Turtle pellets
YouTube Video:
Sidenote,
there was something weird with the pigeons in the last few weeks,
their eyes look like half-eaten, they look like zombies, and a lot of them are dying,
I remembered that some pigeon might have drunk from the water,
that might be the core of the infection " I might be wrong" but anyway I've started
to put a cage on top of the turtles' container to prevent the pigeons in the area
from drinking from the water in the container.
they're very small, all of a sudden, one of them start showing weird symptoms,
puffy eyes, no appetite, I've searched google to figure out the cause of such symptoms,
all results were pointing at poor water quality or vitamin A decrease,
there were only one vet in my city, and it's not specialized in reptiles and I don't trust them,
he gave my turtle a vitamin injection and antibiotic injection multiple times on the span of 3 weeks,
and he told me to add antibiotic drops on top of the food, the turtle didn't get any better,
eventually, the turtle died.
A few days later, I noticed that 3 of my turtle are showing the same symptoms,
I isolated these turtles, each one in a separate plastic container filled with water with a rock to stand on,
one of them was making a sound when I hold it up in my hand,
a week later 2 of them died, I'm left with only 3 turtles, each of them are in its own container,
2 are sick and 1 is doing fine.
They all are getting +10 hours of sun,
with water being changed every day, I'm even washing the rocks.
But they are going on the same path as the previous turtles, they are not eating,
it has been over a week without any food, I tried to force-feed them, but I couldn't because the turtles are very small.
They are active when I hold them up in my hand,
of course their eyes are swollen, and they won't eat anything at all,
but I believe I still got hope to save them.
About 1 week without eating and the eyes are fully closed.
What can I do? Can I offer them any medication? Injections?
Unfortunately I live very far away, a lot of money but so little products.
Things that are designed especially for reptiles are not available where I live,
Any human medication is available here, of course, if I can use one in such case.
I'll be moving in the next few months to Belgium, where a lot of vets are available.,
but until then, I really don't know what to do.
Conditions:
water type:
previously, from the water tap,
currently, from a water bottle" like the ones you buy from store"
Full water change every day.
Light source:
No bulb, direct sunlight for +10 hours a day.
Food:
Aquatic Turtle pellets
YouTube Video:
Sidenote,
there was something weird with the pigeons in the last few weeks,
their eyes look like half-eaten, they look like zombies, and a lot of them are dying,
I remembered that some pigeon might have drunk from the water,
that might be the core of the infection " I might be wrong" but anyway I've started
to put a cage on top of the turtles' container to prevent the pigeons in the area
from drinking from the water in the container.