Latest photos of all my turtles.. 2 Red Ear Sliders, Malayan Box Turtle, 2 Yellow Bellied Sliders and Chinese Golden Thread Turtle.. I have 6 (SIX) turtles! =P
My Cutest Red Ear Sliders
Riri and Kiki
Yellow, Riri & Kiki
Kiki
Turtle Skin Problem - Fungus, Bacteria, Parasites, Skin Shedding??
I would like to share that, a month ago my Chinese Golden Thread Turtle (CGTT) had this skin problem. I don't know what is it and how it happen. Its looks like he having really heavy shedding but in the same time the legs and the other parts of body looks swollen.
I assumed this must be some sort of fungus or bad bacteria that infect my turtle. It could be from the water. Dirty water, wrong temperature can give this kind of symptom. But then, I'm using filter in his tank, so what could it be??
Poor baby, his face covered with the fungus. Give swollen looks =(
His leg show some swollen.
Based from my experienced dealing with this skin problem such white spots, fungus and injuries, the home remedy to cure this problem is by soaking the baby turtle in the Potassium Permanganate.
What is Potassium Permanganate?
Potassium Permanganate act as disintectant, used to treat dermatitis, fungal infections, killed bacteria and parasites of the hands or feet. By evaporation of Potassium Permanganate will gives prismatic purplish-black glistening crystals and it will dissolves in water to gives deep purple solutions.
So what I do is I mixed the crystal with warm water. Don't put too many, just few drops like 10 tiny crystal and gives very light purple solution. Then I soaked the baby turtle in potassium permanganate solution for 20 minutes, if I let the baby soak more than 20 minutes, the solutions will turn to brownish also to the turtles =P Don't worry, it won't harm the turtle but do keep on eye if the turtle started makes some bubbles from the nose.. Meaning dat they had enough.
I treated my baby turtle 2 times a day for a week.
Soaking the baby in potassium permanganate solution for 20 minutes.
After the soaking, I dry dock him under infrared bulb as to let him dry and kill whatever things covered his body.
Felt asleep while dry docking
After couple hours dry dock him, I place him in super clean warm water for drinking and feed him pellets as well.
2 Weeks After the treatment.
So far my baby looks much better, eat well and very active.
Basking area still under construction
I already make one but still not attach to the tank, as my mum idea.. she want the removable above tank basking area (ATBA).. that what she want, then I just followed.. hehehe.. so the basking area can be move anywhere or anytime whenever I need to clean the tank or change the water, so it will not give me obstruction.
This is customade ATBA which made from plastic or sometimes people call plexiglass. This plastic material quite expensive here.. 1 x 1 foot square size already cost me RM12 per piece. So imagine I have to spend 2.5 x 1.5 foot size with different thickness of the plastic. The floor is 6mm thick, the wall is 3mm thick. Total cost to make this ATBA is RM150 =P Anything for turtles~! its okay.. hihi
Still in plastic wrappers because I don't want the basking get dusty since the ATBA still not complete yet. I need to put the wallpaper to cover the wall of the basking area. This is because my turtles need privacy when they basking.. not to forget, there is not basking ramp, so still need some times to build it. hihi..
1st stage - Tank Setup
Finally.. my Kiki and Riri have their own bungalow.. yeay~!! It tooks me a month to make sure as theres no any chemical residue stick in the tank wall.. I did few times water change and let the water seats for 2 3 days as to absorb all the dirty stain, any chemical residue dat left by the clorox, soap or vinegar dat I used to clean the tank.
When I purchased this secondhand tank, the owner also give me a free set of filter. The filter is powerhead filter with the filteration media box and the hose. I never used this kind of filter, the owner said the filter still in good condition, since I'm still saving to get canister filter for my turtles, as for temporary.. why not I used this filter first. I'm not sure how many Gallon/Litre Per Hour this powerhead filter can run and circulate the water. But so far, it does a great job!
Here a photo of the new tank setup.. wa laaaa..~!
I didn't expect the tank will look this nice =)
Look with camera flash off..
Kiki and Riri so happy!! flying freely in the water~!
Isn't she look cute, adorable.. Riri
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