Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:59 am Re: Turtle Fell out of tank
Day 4ish update. So I am going to clear things up a little. I believe that when Frankie fell out of her tank, she hit the edge of another tank about halfway through the fall, and then fell the rest of the way to the floor. I believe this is what lead to the significant injuries.
She seems to be doing much better, much more active, even the next day. We originally were dry docking her in a box overnight Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, and finally Sunday night. As I mention above the Vet didn't want any unsupervised swimming. We stayed home with her all weekend and she swam all day both days. Well, Monday came along and I had her in the box while we were at work. I have a webcam setup so I can watch her while I am away from home and when I checked on her at work in the morning she was on her back! I kept watching and she wasn't getting flipped back over. I called everyone I could think of to go get her and I finally got ahold of someone at our apartment complex to go and flip her back (She was flipped for at least an hour!) I was amazed she was okay. I was frantically searching Google and didn't find anything about how long she could stay like that? Of course she ended up flipping back over about 5 minutes later, thankfully my fiancee was coming home from work to watch her and got there about 15 minutes later. So, after all of that and once I got home it was time to give her, her second shot of anti-biotics. We gave her the shot which she didn't like at all, as soon as we stuck her she peed all over the floor. Then she ate some food and about 10 minutes later she threw it all up. We spoke with the vet and she said that the shot shouldn't make her do that, but it seems like too much of a coincidence to me so we will see what happens Thursday.
So after all of that I decided she can't be in the box alone because she could get flipped and die, and she can't swim alone (at least in 75 gallons of water). So last night we drained the tank and kinda cleaned it, then filled the tank about 1/4 of the way. She can now kinda swim, but it isn't too deep for her to get tired and not be able to breath.
Clearly she is a fighter and I think she is going to be okay, she is very active and still has a very good appetite. I will continue to update with progress and pictures. She shell is purplish on the white portion where her scute fell off which the vet said is a bruise.
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w1ll1am on Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.
One Red ear slider named Frank
-Frank is actually a Frankie
-Age: 9 years
-Number of eyes: 1
Frankie was rescued from some kids that accidentally dropped a light on her when she was little.
I have not heard of such significant injuries from a fall before. Your instincts here paid off and I hope she has a quick recovery.
