fly river turtles
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does anyone know if they can thrive in a environment without water? meaning how long can they stay out of water? how to tell if they have fungus or not? does UV sterlizer help them prevent them from getting fungus? yesturday i notices that the FRT have a layer of green algea on it's back so i took it out of water and wiped it does with a cotton cloth, which made the cloth back. is that fungus? can someone please tell me where i can research they answers or helpful F&Q that i can find?
Of course they can't thrive without water. Now a couple hours out of water wouldn't kill them, but they should always be provided with a large tank of water and possibly an area to come out of the water if they chose to, but from what I've heard/read wouldn't come out much. I've seen other turtles like snappers and RES grow some algae on their shells, but I have no experience with FRTs so I wouldn't know if it's common with them or not. If it is just algae it should be harmless.
Algae is harmless but should be removed IMO.
When an FRT gets any kind of fungus you should treat it and begin daily massive water changes immediately. The biggest danger with FRTs getting fungus is it spreading around its nostril and nose. If untreated it can easily and very rapidly over take the FRTs nostrils causing it to drown.
When an FRT gets any kind of fungus you should treat it and begin daily massive water changes immediately. The biggest danger with FRTs getting fungus is it spreading around its nostril and nose. If untreated it can easily and very rapidly over take the FRTs nostrils causing it to drown.
First of frt are aquatic animals they must be in the water in order to live. They will generaly get out of the water only to lay eggs. A frt that leaves the water for any other reason is very likely to be hill. I wouldnt remove the alge you see, because the act of removing it can cause much more damage than the alge itself. Insted reduce the ligth level(see if something like a window is near by) and do lots of water changes to reduce the nutrients, that should do the trick. Fungus and skin hillness in turtles can take many forms, from swollen and redish fingers and limbs, to sick looking withish and yellowish pashes on the tutle skin, to some kind of withish layer all over the turts body including its eyes. One of the best aproaches to deal with them is to medicate the turtle in a separate container using tank water and monitoring temps and ading one of thouse fish medicines that come with the name "general topic". Allow the turt to remain it there for about 20minutes and repeate several times a day. To the tank water you can also ad things like stress coat. Check all the water parameters and your husbandry tecnickes because there is allways a underlying cause. Dry dock treatements are harmfull to frt
soupa2;2155031; said:
naw i had algae grwing on the FRT i had about 6 yrs ago...
but the one i got now has white spot (Fungus?) not first time...i wiped it off with microfiber cloth...it grows again maybe 4 spots? then its really easy to wipe off...maybe not fungus??
In case of doubt ad a litle stress coat or put the turt a few minutes in a bucket with tank water and some drops of general topic for fish
I, on the other hand, have never had any difficulty with my FRT. Eats well, is active, grows at a healthy pace.
