Hi! Introduce yourselves here. :: Hiya! new red eared slider turtle owner here! XD

[Loves_sliders]

their fine, it has about 5 inchs deep swiming room though and a light right over the basking rocks... and~ I learned about that lil eye thing, and I found out how to deal with it-- "if your red ear slider has swollen eye(s) and keep them closed most the time your turtle may have an infection. Hold your turtle over a bowl or sink and get a cup of water and add some salt to it, then try to get your turtle to stick its head out and open its infected eye(s), then pore (sp) the salt water over it's head. I found it best to let them bask after this and keep them out of the water for a alittle while so the salt water can stay on for awhile"

after I did that it had just a lil food and opened its eyes more
I'm sure it'll be better soon ^.^

[GouzlanTheAmerican]

I know about the salt water thing. And it will only make the eys get better to a certain point. I think your supposed to fill a container with warm salt water. and let the turt swim around in it for a little while. But you really need to get your turt to a vet. Vets are professionals! they will give you antibiotics, and that will take care of it in no time. Please Please Please take your turt to a vet!

[marisa]

I know salt water is healing, and I know that a bath in aquarium salt can be effective in treating fungus, but I would think that salt water in the eye would be more irritating than anything (the tissue is delicate). Is it improving?

[Loves_sliders]

alittle, it got up and swam around for while with it's eyes open ^.^ but still didn't eat, the watter is about 81 degress (sp) and the basking is about 88
its the best I can get it ^^
and its 25 dollors to just visit the vet and then they make you buy a medisn thats like 10-30 $ and then you have to get it to EAT it or drop it in its lil eyes! its getting better, much better then it was anyway, I think it'll be fine, if it starts to get worse again we might take it to the vet

Elric, my good-to-go healthy turtle likes to sit on top of the lil sick one, Flo is the name of the sick one T-T ...its realy cute and one time Flo was half way off the baskig rock and going to fall, so Elric sat on the half thats not hanging off the edge, it was soooo cute... and another time it like "pushed" some food to Flo.

do you think Elric can tell Flo is sick? and its trying to help?

[STRAYKINGFISHER]

Elric, my good-to-go healthy turtle likes to sit on top of the lil sick one

That seems to be what they like to do, I have read about posters that have a sick turtle and the other(or others) like to climb on top or near it while it basks, others seem to attack it, but I think that they do that to get the sick turtle moving, I think that it's their way of saying "come on, you're not sick, quit faking"

[marisa]

I think animals can sense when one is "different/sick," and in nature it's the survival of the fittest. I don't think the well ones particularly have the best interests of the ill one in mind.

For the eye infection (if that's indeed what it is) you could also try an eye wash of 97% distilled water and 3% boric acid. But if you don't see improvement, that reptile vet visit would really be good.

[Loves_sliders]

ok, I'l try to do the thing you just said, and if it does get worse, I will take it to the vet like I said

[Loves_sliders]

if she doesn't make it I'll name the box turtle I haven't named yet Flo in memory of the first Flo...

[lydia_lady_fla]

I'm wondering here since we are not sure if the turts sick or how sick shouldn't we actually seperate the 2 turtles for awhile to keep the good to go turt safe? L_S Im glad to hear you are reading the forum you will learn alot here,as soon as possible work on the home improvements for the turtles sake they will be much happier and healtier and you will enjoy them for many years (they do live a long time and do grow)

[Loves_sliders]

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[Loves_sliders]

I didn't reply for the past for days cause we toke flo to the docker, and then, well, flos gone...

[STRAYKINGFISHER]

I am sorry to hear that, I am sure she was happy to have had such a good owner as you, I hope you feel better soon.

[marisa]

I'm really sorry to hear this. What did the doctor say was the problem?

[lydia_lady_fla]

keep us updated sorry you lost flo hope your other ones o.k. what did the vet tell you and is the other one o.k.?

[Loves_sliders]

well the vet said its an infection (I wanted to say "duh" XD) well anyway, He also said I should try to give it more Vitamin A but he said it might not take it, I can't remeber why. I think no matter what he said, even if I brought her in on the first sign of it, flo wouldn't have made it, the infaction started on the 2nd to last day of vacation and we unpacked for about a week, so I wouldn't have gotten to the vet by then...

oh yea, he said it might have been caused by dirty watter. We explained how we cleaned their lil travle-tank everyday on vacation, and he said that maybe its because they had there tank water swushing back and forth in the car and the lil stuff in the tank along with it

we saved some money by bringing Elric on the same day as flo to see if he was fine, and the doctor said he was A-ok^^, BUT today, elric ate very lil. but hes shells hard, nothig looks infected, and no discoloring on his shell or body, so I think hes just sad that his friend died T.T