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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:09 am **prolapse**

Hi i have two turtles and one of them keeps having a prolapse. Well i looked everything up and concluded that it is a prolapse. I was just wondering if i should take him to a vet or is this normal? He doesn't seem to be in pain or stress but i want to be positive that all this is okay and normal. I was also wondering when he'll stop getting these prolapses because he has been having them for a week now.

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:13 am

Since you say he "keeps having them" it makes me think that you see something coming out, then going back in. A prolapse won't go back in on it's own. If what you see is a black/purplish mass coming out and going in, then congrats, you have a boy! It's his penis. The only pic I could find was of a box turtle, but it's similar.

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:40 pm

He's fanning, which male turtles do, and it's normal as long as it goes in by itself. Since you have another turtle in the tank with him, though, watch so that the other turtle doesn't bite it (on another site someone lost their turtle from loss of blood after the penis was bitten).

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:11 pm

Ouch!

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:37 pm

Now that would hurt.

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:27 am

If it gets bitten to the point where it bleeds, it's better to have it amputated.

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:47 pm

LOL. wow thanks alot for the help. his penis is very large then for such a small guy.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:58 am

yup thats a first for me. Ithink if I had seen such a ummmmm blob I would have paniced lol learn something every day. thanks for the info.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:36 pm

Are all turtles that big?

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:53 am

Oh My !

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 8:00 am

in that pic.. is the penis lifting up the shell? sounds weird but looks like it
poor females..

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:11 am

It looks to me like he's got his front half sealed up. Box turtles have a hinge in the plastron that allows them to close up their shell.

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:14 pm

well either way I will know if Neptune ever does it.

Can they be "fixed" like cats and dogs?

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:36 pm

I've heard of instances where turtles have bit the penises of other turtles and it was so bad that amputation was the only solution, but I doubt the turtle would call that 'fixed'..lol

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:58 pm

Can they be "fixed" like cats and dogs?

I think that they actually can get "fixed", but it requires surgery to open up the plastron, I don't know that I want to have someone do that to my boys.

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