Splendid!

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closing of the eye,s i think is a vitamin A deficiency

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Can you see some white things on his eyes?
Keep the water warm, good luck

One of the best articles on the web - and a pretty good website to look at if you own turts.


ATP Medical - Eyes and Ears

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I care for:

1.0.0 Red Eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)- 10/11 yrs old

0.0.2 Leopard-Spotted Catfish (Synodontis eupterus) -5/6 yrs old

0.0.1 Red Tailed Shark (Epalzeorhynchus bicolor) - 7 yrs old

2.1.0 Moggies - various ages

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured
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- Mahatma Ghandi

By the sounds of things the turtles may have a calcium deficeincy, are their eyes bulging or swollen?
Best advice i can offer is get them checked out by a specialist vet, have some recommendations if you need them. Then give them a well balanced diet, normaly consisiting of shrimp, prawns in shells (shells provide a good source of calcium), gamma fish, white baite etc. they will also eat crickets occasionally and green veg like carrot tops. Hope this helps good luck

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is there somewhere online i can get all the different food types from cos my local pet shops only do bloodworm and turtle and terrapin tubbed food.

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Aquatic centres do normally sell frozen fish, but supermarkets sell prawns. The Mill Garden Centre in Chesterfield do a good range of aquatic foods you can contact them on 01246 260860. Hope this helps

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Can i just say,go with the advice of Graham. If you wind up feeding foodstuff too high in protein you are going to end up with a whole other problem.
Basing the diet on terrapin foodsticks is a good plan,work around it. Offer treats,offer variation,but too much bloodworm, too much prawn is a bad thing in itself.

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so are you saying to just feed the prepared food for now then until there is an improvement??

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1 05 male beardie DAVE
1 german shepherd CLEO
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Turtles with eye problems probably wont feed so you may exacerbate water problems if you are not careful.

I recsued my adult RES in Feb 2007 and he was in a pretty bad state.
It has taken time but he is now taking a good selection of:

Reptomin Terrapin Pellets (Good calcium content)
TREX Turtle Pellets (not too high in protein)
Dried River Shrimp or fresh shell-on prawns - once a week maximum
Access to 'greens' such as watercress (untreated), dandylions or duckweed.
(You may have to leave them unfed for 2 or 3 days before they take any greens. Best not to feed other stuff at the same time.(thanks Graham)

Young turts fed daily; Adults 2 or 3 times a week.

I am now experimenting with other fresh or live foods such as uncooked fish, slugs & crickets as an occasional treat Providing a calcium supplement such as cuttlefish bone or crushed egg/oyster shell is good practice.

All this is in any decent care sheet.

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I care for:

1.0.0 Red Eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)- 10/11 yrs old

0.0.2 Leopard-Spotted Catfish (Synodontis eupterus) -5/6 yrs old

0.0.1 Red Tailed Shark (Epalzeorhynchus bicolor) - 7 yrs old

2.1.0 Moggies - various ages

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured
by the way in which its animals are treated."
- Mahatma Ghandi