Urgent Care :: Please help me identify these light patches on skin

[MVB]

You're in New York, right Steve? Know a good HERP vet?

[steve]

I've been to a few, the only one worth mentioning is Dr. Monaco @ Old Country Animal Clinic and it might be a trip to get out there. http://www.yelp.com/biz/old-country-ani ... -plainview

There are a couple of good ones in NYC that I've heard of but have not been to. I can look those up if you'd like.

[MVB]

Last night I put him back in the tank and he seemed insanely grateful for it. For the most part, I think he did heal. He still has visible patches, but they don't look as bad or as raw. I think they are scabs rather than necessarily a skin fungus. Now he's back in the water, I'm watching him closely around the other turtle. I'm going to remove them from the tank to feed them from now on and hope the animosity dies down. If new wounds appear or old ones reopen, I'll have to work out a way to divide them. I actually DID try out a commercial divider that some [----] at a pet store told me would work, but it didn't fit my tank and the holes would definitely have been too small for turtle filtration.

[MVB]

I've found evidence of the marks on his paws in a video from early April. They haven't gone away yet. I've been dry docking him since I started this thread. The other turtle re-opened some wounds on his hind legs. I think he is attacking more because Pinkman is wounded. I've been rehydrating him in a bucket rather than returning him to the tank and risk him getting attacked again. He's really unhappy about it. If this is just coming from being attacked, do you think he'd heal up if he were in a regular tank setup and separated from the other turtle?

[steve]

If the healing process is constantly being interrupted, this may not heal properly. You just cannot keep them together at any point. Attacks could escalate since one is injured, however in a small, closed ecosystem the attacks could just be nonstop regardless. My male will attack my female even out of water - when outside, they need to be completely separated. Since that is most likely what you have to do (unless you want to rehome one of them), then I'd start there and see how the healing goes.

[jkrroo]

What came of your turtles skin? Mine has the same issue.

[MVB]

So right now he does seem to be healing up.

I stopped dry docking him a few days back and returned him to the tank, but I put a divider in. The commercial divider I bought was absolutely terrible, so I had to build my own out of the superfluous metal tops from my above-tank docks and some zip ties. It's not perfect, but they've not found a way through it.

I think he DID have a fungal infection, but the Iodine took care of it, what remained were scabs that weren't healing, because my other turtle was biting him.

The divider has been good for both of them, I think and pretty good for my peace of mind too.