Urgent Care :: baby RES just floating with eyes closed not moving.

[wickedhawk]

This is my second turtle , I just recently purchased him on 7/16/15 from a local pet shop. I have him in a 20 gallon with a turtle filter and a basking rock/water fall filter so theres 2 filters. water is showing to be at 74 degress and theres a couple of rosey red minnows. Last night he was moving around and just enjoying the splash of water droplets from the filter on his basking rock. I went to sleep and this morning woke up to find him floating in the water . an hour later i saw him still floating in the same spot and not moving , i picked him up with no response. How can i tell he is not dead? I placed him on his basking rock and hoping that he will wake up.

[steve]

If he is limp and eyes sunken in, then I'm afraid he's passed. What else is in the tank?

[wickedhawk]

he hasnt woken up, his eyes arent sunken in. Sand and river rocks as substrate. I read in another forum that a turtle went into hibernation and woke up 3 months later but im not so sure thats the case here. His shell does feel a little soft and i see some white "blisters" for lack of better term, almost like a wart. Im thinking maybe he was sick from the pet shop i got him at. they had 6 baby turtles in a 10 gallon tank, 2 RES and the rest were YBS.

[steve]

I suppose you can wait and see but baby RES do not usually hibernate.

[Kansasslider]

I doubt its in hibernation this time of year. Sorry