What to do if tortoise seedlings float in the water

Question 1: How to treat a coin-sized Chinese tortoise seedling floating in the water? There are many reasons for the floating water. Some are too thin and too light, so they float, and some are caused by pneumonia or emphysema. The specific situation will be treated on a case-by-case basis.

Question 2: There are several reasons why turtles float. 1. Malnutrition:

Symptoms: The turtle body is thin, eating and excretion are normal, no other abnormal symptoms are seen, and the floating posture is flat. Ability to move freely in water.

Mechanism: There are no muscles and the skin is empty, so all balloons float.

Treatment: Improve the diet, eliminate parasites, and let the turtle grow more meat.

2. Infection:

Symptoms: Symptoms of infection, such as respiratory system infection symptoms will include: mouth breathing, abnormal secretions or bubbles in the mouth and nose, and frequent floating postures. It is side floating or front-end floating; if it is gastroenteritis, the symptoms are: loose stools or watery stools, pus-like mucus or greenish red in the stools, and the floating posture is an upturned vagina. Infected turtles often refuse to eat or eat less.

Mechanism: Respiratory tract infection causes the lungs to swell and inflate, gastrointestinal infection causes the stomach to inflate, making the turtle float.

Treatment: Symptomatic and anti-infectious treatment according to the corresponding infection.

3. Nervousness:

Symptoms: Head and feet huddled together, floating on the water, motionless. After people leave, they can climb ashore on their own and continue to retreat when there is movement. There are no other abnormal symptoms, and they are often accompanied by refusal to eat.

Mechanism: Commonly seen when turtles enter new places and new environments. Since people are nervous and can adapt to all changes by being immobile, floating water is the most common.

Treatment: Rest in dark light. It is best to have an old landlord tortoise to enlighten you so that the tortoise can integrate into the new environment and new social circle as soon as possible. Don't disturb its adaptation process frequently. Don't just pick it up and watch it and force it to eat.

4. Not knowing how to swim:

Symptoms: I am very nervous in the water, my limbs are fluttering, my head is stretched out, and I want to step on the land as soon as possible. After landing on the shore, I sighed and became proud again. There are no abnormal symptoms, and eating and excretion are normal.

Mechanism: It is more common among players who don’t understand turtles. They have raised water turtles as land turtles since they were young, which makes the turtles think they are landlubbers. Once they enter the water without their limbs on the ground, they will be scared to death

Treatment: Find a turtle guide who knows how to swim and teach it, or first go into shallow water and then deep water, so that the turtle will know again that it is a water turtle and not a land turtle.

Question 3: What should I do if the turtle floats in the water? The turtle got turtle pneumonia while floating in the water.

Symptoms: Refusal to eat, listless, weak limbs, and unwilling to crawl. The temperature of raising a turtle suddenly changes greatly, which can easily cause the turtle's nostrils to runny, heavy breathing in the throat, and white mucus visible around the mouth. When the patient is seriously ill, he lowers his head and has difficulty breathing. Due to blocked nostrils, he can only open his mouth to breathe, or he may wheeze, squeak, or make baby-like sounds.

Treatment:

Try to maintain a constant turtle breeding temperature and isolate sick turtles for treatment.

① Use 0.1 gentamicin plus 0.1 saline. Once a day, recovery can take 5 to 10 days depending on the condition. Penicillin can also be used.

② Mix amoxicillin with water at a ratio of 1:20, then put the turtle in the potion and soak it for an hour. Once or twice a day. (Soaking medicine is an auxiliary treatment, the purpose is to allow the turtle body to absorb the medicine) You can also use amoxicillin powder to hydrate, and use a syringe to inject it into the body of the small fish so that the turtle can eat it. Pour it directly into the turtle's mouth. Not much will enter and the effect will be insignificant.

③ Take a vitamin C soak every other day to enhance disease resistance. Soak for 30 to 40 minutes each time. (The cheapest form of vitamin C is in pill form. I used to fill a small basin with warm water, then put one vitamin C into the water, stir evenly and then put the turtle into the basin)

④Use a chain Soak in dilute solutions of drugs such as ampicillin, penicillin, furoxin, clot, ampicillin, and ampicillin.

⑤ Bacterial pneumonia can be treated with intramuscular injection of amikacin sulfate, ceftriaxone sodium, cefradine, and gentamicin sulfate at the base of the hind limbs. The injection course is 7-14 days. (One vitamin C Yinqiao tablet can be taken orally, 3 times a day, for 3 consecutive days. Optional medicine)

⑥ Mycoplasma and chlamydial pneumonia need to be treated with macrolide antibiotics, and injections are recommended Use azithromycin. (The method is the same as above)

If the turtle has stopped eating and has little or no urine, you can soak it in glucose every day. It has the function of replenishing physical strength (glucose is one of the main sources of heat in the animal body, and sodium and chlorine are important electrolytes in the body). Intraperitoneal injection can also be used to replenish body fluids. For injection, 5% glucose injection or glucose sodium chloride injection can be used. Taking an individual weighing 500 grams as an example, under normal circumstances, the recommended anti-inflammatory infusion volume is 3-5 ml, and the additional infusion volume is about 5 ml each time. Infusion can be increased 1-2 times a day, with an interval of about 5 hours between each infusion. Replenishing body fluids can increase energy and help sick turtles recover body functions as soon as possible; it can promote excretion and reduce drug toxicity. Therefore, for turtles that are seriously ill, especially those that drink little water or refuse water, supplementing body fluids is necessary.

After using the anti-inflammatory infusion for 3-5 days, you can feed an appropriate amount of food and multi-dimensional elements every three days to make up for the body's consumption, improve resistance, and help the sick turtle recover as soon as possible.

The digestive function of seriously ill turtles has almost stopped, and the food excreted after feeding may be the original color of the food. In this case, you can feed Jianweixiaoshi Tablets, Livzon Intestinal Fun and The feces of healthy turtles adjusts the intestinal flora. The digestive function of seriously ill turtles may take 1-6 months to adjust. Be prepared for long-term feeding and have enough patience.

Question 4: What should I do if my tortoise floats in the water? If there is no hiccups during the float test, it means that the resistance is weak, just get more sun, supplement some vitamin C, and diversify the food.

Question 5: How to treat floating disease of tortoise (FIoating disease Of tortoise) [also known as] floating disease and turtle floating disease. [Symptoms] The sick turtle often floats on the water, with its limbs stretched out, weak, unable to eat, its muscles lose elasticity, and it dies soon after. [Prevalence and harm] This disease can cause harm to turtles of all ages. After the onset of the disease, the mortality rate is high. [Diagnosis method] Judgment based on floating symptoms. [Prevention] Pay attention to water hygiene and do not feed spoiled feed. The shallow breeding water should not exceed the height of the turtle's back.

1. Causes and symptoms of turtle float: Turtle float is a common disease in turtles raised in greenhouses and open-air ponds, and is more common in turtles raised in greenhouses. The cause has not yet been determined. Some scholars believe it is due to lack of oxygen. However, some authors believe that it is caused by the weak constitution of the turtles, because this disease was also found in open-air pools even when there was no lack of oxygen; furthermore, only a small number of turtles in the greenhouse were found to suffer from "turtle floating disease", while most turtles in the same pool were found to suffer from "turtle floating disease". Turtles do not suffer from this disease. The author found that severe water mold can also cause floating turtles. Symptoms are that the sick turtle often floats on the water, its four claws are straight, weak, and its muscles have no elasticity. Some turtles are raised on land for a period of time and cannot sink into the water until they are put into water. This phenomenon has also been found in raising turtles.

2. Prevention and treatment methods:

(1) Sick turtles are raised in shallow water. The water level generally does not exceed the height of the turtle’s carapace. If a turtle is found floating on the water, fish it out and release it. Putting it into shallow water or placing it on the food table to give it a "land" habitat can alleviate the condition.

(2) Strengthen feeding and management: externally apply quicklime to reduce the biomass of pathogenic microorganisms in the water, and add vitamin C and a small amount of antibiotics (such as florfenicol) to the feeding to enhance resistance. Disease resistance and anti-stress ability, the turtle may have inflammation in the body, and the appropriate use of antibiotics is to reduce inflammation and sterilize. Use Likansu and Yukangsu after 3 days. Likangsu has the effect of promoting the reproduction of beneficial bacteria in the digestive tract, and Yukangsu has the function of promoting immune growth. The two have the same effect and have the effect of restoring health. For floating water caused by saprolegnia, 40% formaldehyde can be used to scrub the saprolegnia on the turtle's back, head, limbs, etc. Be careful not to touch the formaldehyde solution to the turtle's eyes. After cleaning, let the turtle enter the water immediately. After testing, using the above method can achieve relatively satisfactory treatment results.

Question 6: What should I do if the stone turtle seedlings are floating in the water? Due to the arrival of cold air in the past two days, the weather suddenly cooled down and there was no time to keep warm. A little Nanshi caught a cold and started the first treatment this year. The first step Isolate the turtle immediately, use a small plate to isolate the turtle, and use a temperature control to keep the temperature at 28-29 degrees. Since the turtle will not eat, you need to use a syringe to feed medicine. Since the turtle is floating, it is serious, so use a disposable syringe to treat it. The injection was given through the hind legs. After 6 days, the turtle finally began to eat. After another week of isolation, the turtle could finally be returned to the turtle pond.

Question 7: What should I do if the turtle floats? A turtle must be floating when swimming. Yes, but be careful. If it always floats on its side and has a runny nose, it may be pneumonia. It needs to be kept at a constant temperature, otherwise it is easy to die. Question 8: How can the stone turtle seedlings float after being dry-cultured? What to do? If it is just ordinary rotten skin, it will generally not float. All skin surgical diseases can be cured by improving the water quality without medication. I guess your turtle has rotten skin caused by complications such as pneumonia. Look at whether the nostrils have become smaller, the hair on the nose is white, and the circles around the eyes are white and swollen. Swollen limbs? If it is, it is usually pneumonia, and a water-soluble antibiotic bath is required. Generally, amoxicillin, gentamicin, etc. are used. I used florfenicol. Medicinal bath during the day and dry care at night.

In addition, if the seedlings have been kept dry for a long time, especially the small seedlings, they will float when they are just put into the water.

Question 9: What should I do if the stone turtle seedlings are floating in the water due to their weak constitution? Supplement nutrition, feed more various foods, and have balanced nutrition.

Multidimensional glucose can be added to the food

Question 10: Why is the tortoise floating in the water recently? Just keep it in shallow water for three to five days. Feed some earthworms every day. After the body recovers, you can gradually add water. The water depth is not suitable. If it exceeds the body length of the turtle, you can put a stone in the water to give it a foothold. Haha, your turtle is too weak to float in the water. View original post >>