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Ok I need some help with my little guy. It looks like he is getting a little fungus or something on his front foot around the nail. Also on the bottom of his front arm there is also a slight pinkish spot. I currently dont have any place for him to get out and bask. I was waiting till I moved him into his bigger tank and I had read that they don't bask too oftin anyway. The tank he is in is a bare bottom tank too. Sooo what should I do???


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Well it doesn't really look like fungus to me, it looks inflamed. Is there anything in the tank that is abrasive? If it is fungus you can try to add 1/4 cup salt to every 5 gallons of water to see if that helps. You can also let your turtle dry out for about 5-6 hours a day to help kill it. Normal fish fungus medicines can also be used on turtles.
 
Vicious_Fish;2153675; said:
Well it doesn't really look like fungus to me, it looks inflamed. Is there anything in the tank that is abrasive? If it is fungus you can try to add 1/4 cup salt to every 5 gallons of water to see if that helps. You can also let your turtle dry out for about 5-6 hours a day to help kill it. Normal fish fungus medicines can also be used on turtles.
:iagree:However do the salt treatment in a diferent container that the main tank. Also make shure to keep with the water changes. Ive treated dozens of cases like this and one of the things that allways helped are thouse fish medicines that apear with the name "General topic". These apear to be better than fungus medicines because the agent often is bacerial;)
 
By the way make shure you get that basking platform, that should eliminate this prob for ever:D
 
Thanks yall! I didnt really think fungus becasue it doesnt look like one but I wasn't sure. The tank is just a 10gal with a dueto 100 and some hornwart (plant) so I dont think anything is abrasive. I am about to put him in a 58gal (3'x18"x21"tall) so i'll keep the 10 for some salt baths. Its been hetic the last week...Gustav just blew threw my part of town.
 
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