Fly River Turtle * HELP *

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MonsterPetey

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So instead of buying a FRT from a lfs today, i decided to rescue a baby frt from a person who had it in a 10gal. with barely any filtration and heating.

Good News : So now the baby frt is in a 50gal with a tigrinus catfish and it sems to be swimming and such.

Bad News : The Frt has abit of fungas on the middle of its shell, and it looks likes he/she is shedding.....

What Should i do to help this baby?
so far. I raised up the temp. to 32 and added some salt.


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The infection is a bit worrying because its near the baby spinal cord, so it has to stop now. Besides what your doing your going to give it a few 5 minutes full salt water baths, several times a day. I dont recomend keeping a hill baby frt with a tigrinus cat fish, you never know and it could pass some bacteria to the fish. Also give her plenty of food.
 
I have no idea how to treat a turtle fungus, besides the obvious, but I wish ya good luck with him and I hope he pulls through for you!
 
A little bit of fungus is an understatement..

I dont know if you have betadine solutions there, but in our part of the world thats what I used to treat my baby frt...

I take it out of the tank then pat the FRT dry and apply some of the solution with my finger and let it dry off on him..then put him back in the tank I did this once or twice a day..

The effect was the FRT kinda shed some skin and along with the shed skin came the fungus, but the fungus I treated was nothing like that in your pic.. hope this helps
 
EricIvins;4126902; said:
Terramycin or Acriflavine........
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Terramicin doesant do a thing against fungus, but yet again "fungus" is often actualy bacteria so it could have some efect, however its a already kind of outdated antibiotic and most bacteria arent sensitive to it. But acriflavine its fine.
 
coura;4128044; said:
Terramicin doesant do a thing against fungus, but yet again "fungus" is often actualy bacteria so it could have some efect, however its a already kind of outdated antibiotic and most bacteria arent sensitive to it. But acriflavine its fine.
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I have used Terramycin for years to treat both Bacterial and Fungal infections on more than just Turtles. It works, point blank.......However, good luck on finding either..........

Ohh, and if you want any water borne Anti-Fungal/Biotic to work, you can't filter the water.........
 
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