Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02287
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: TurtleTek@aol.com
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:38:28 EDT
Subject: [alt-beam] Assorted Turtle Problems
Greeting List,
With winter coming to a close, it's time to put away the robots and other
technical hobbies and get back to focusing on my shelled friends.
Anyhow, I recently took my softshell (slightly off topic, live with it) to
the vet because his shell started to show some wierd bumps. The vet is by no
means a "herp vet" but she does have experience "exotics". She said that
Intel (the softshell) has some kind of calcium deficiency. She came to this
conclusion because his shell was soft...but he's a softshell, I told her. She
seems to think that his shell is too soft. However, Intel has the exact same
diet as my other aquatic turtles and they have no such problems. Any ideas or
comments?
I also have another aquatic turtle problem. I found a young red-eared slider
(about 3 years old) on my driveway last weekend, normally I would have
released him in the local wildlife conserve pond but he has one of those ear
infection thingies. It looks pretty bad, big and puffy. He is currently in a
30 gallon rubbermaid "aquarium" with a heat lamp. He's even eating commercial
turtle food and doesn't seem to be very afriad of me. And the most odd thing
of all, he has NO plant growth on his shell, odd for a "wild" turtle. I'm
afraid he is not wild at all, I bet he was someone's pet and when he got the
ear problem, they didn't know what to do and they might've left him on my
porch because I am known as a "turtle expert". I don't want to keep him and I
don't want to pay for the vet bills. However, I don't want a captive, sick
turtle to find himself in the middle of the "real world" (ie, a pond).
Thanks you guys, help me save these turtles.
-TurtleTek
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