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I've recently rescued a red-eared slider. She stayed in a tiny BUCKET, with next to no water. What's more: the bucket's lid was closed, and held with a rock, so she wouldn't escape. So she saw almost no light at all... This was going on for *AT LEAST* a year! She was fed properly in that time period while the previous "owner" (if you can call him that...) was looking for a new home for her.
I got her a 500 litre (~110 gallons) tank, a filter, heating, basking light, and UV. At first I kept the tank in a pretty dark room, without turning on the UVs, while the turtle was adapting to a little bit of light so I didn't damage her eyes. After a week, I could turn on the UV lights no problem.
I feed her shrimp, mealworms, pellets, carrots, leafy greens, etc. Very rarely (because it contains sugar) I'll give her fruits and berries: grapes (her favourite food!), strawberries, feijoa, mango. She's got a great appetite and will eat anything I'll give her.
I'm not sure how old the turtle is, but I have her for 6 weeks now, and she's grown by 5% at least... She's very active and doesn't behave ill.
I never owned a turtle before, so the only "obvious" problem is her shell. It looks really dry. The skin on her limbs and head is totally fine though. Her shell is really solid too. So is it because she started growing again? This doesn't look like normal peeling to me. Is it shell rot? Or is it some other sort of a disease?
I thought this would normalize after some exposure to UV light, but apparently I was wrong.
PS: The big white spots on her shell is some sort of damage. I don't know how she got them because she already had them when I rescued her.
I've recently rescued a red-eared slider. She stayed in a tiny BUCKET, with next to no water. What's more: the bucket's lid was closed, and held with a rock, so she wouldn't escape. So she saw almost no light at all... This was going on for *AT LEAST* a year! She was fed properly in that time period while the previous "owner" (if you can call him that...) was looking for a new home for her.
I got her a 500 litre (~110 gallons) tank, a filter, heating, basking light, and UV. At first I kept the tank in a pretty dark room, without turning on the UVs, while the turtle was adapting to a little bit of light so I didn't damage her eyes. After a week, I could turn on the UV lights no problem.
I feed her shrimp, mealworms, pellets, carrots, leafy greens, etc. Very rarely (because it contains sugar) I'll give her fruits and berries: grapes (her favourite food!), strawberries, feijoa, mango. She's got a great appetite and will eat anything I'll give her.
I'm not sure how old the turtle is, but I have her for 6 weeks now, and she's grown by 5% at least... She's very active and doesn't behave ill.
I never owned a turtle before, so the only "obvious" problem is her shell. It looks really dry. The skin on her limbs and head is totally fine though. Her shell is really solid too. So is it because she started growing again? This doesn't look like normal peeling to me. Is it shell rot? Or is it some other sort of a disease?
I thought this would normalize after some exposure to UV light, but apparently I was wrong.
PS: The big white spots on her shell is some sort of damage. I don't know how she got them because she already had them when I rescued her.