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Things just keep going wrong for me. I haven't been active much anywhere. Here, youtube, etc.. I dont post deaths of my turtles usually but man this has been the worst summer ever. I think 5 of my turtles died and I do take them to the vet and spend the money just to have them die... Im so depressed with all this. So finally after like 2 months everthing is good my medium to small sized turtles brought in for the winter as the adults outside for the winter. i finally decided to get back on track with my youtube channel and show off the dbts I showed you guys months ago.

So start filming and go to show off the second DBT and its near intake in the stocktank. I grab it and it dont come and after a few second I knew it was caught and i just say oh sh**, drop the camera, unplug filter and get turtle out of water. I thought it was dead there was no movement and for some reason i picked up camera again and showed and just said omg no its dead(turned it off now)..... I rewatched what I had on my camera this morning, obviously no one will see this.

Anyway The turtle then takes a gasp and im like omg its alive and then I have to rush just to try and get it unstuck. First i had to clean the plant material and stuff from the inside and around it to see. It was worse then i thought. Its front and back legs got caught in the inside then they had swelled to 3 times the size. I used needle nose pliers bend the intake enough to release both claws.

So all ive done it just brought him inside and let him rest on basking dock away from heat kinda and put neosporin on his legs. I desided not to take him to the vet because I thought he was dead and with no strength anything they would do my be to stressful and probably kill him. So this morning when I went down he was in the water swimming and his back leg looks good the swelling has almost gone completely away. His front leg has gone down but still pretty bad, I think thats what got caught in the first place as it looked the worse. So now ive made an appointment for today. Not sure whats gonna happen with the fron of his foot sigh =/

Im still not sure how it even got caught really. I been using same filter intake for 3 years now. The turtles have climbed over a million times and never got caught and he isnt the smallest turtle either....argh. Im sure there are lots of spellign errors but im not gonna reread for mistakes.

Here is photo from video of it caught.


This morning and how his feet look. They looked blood red yesterday, much improvement. You can see skin is torn away.

That looks awful. Glad you're taking him to the vet. Good luck.

Oh man....Poor little terp.
At least he's still alive.Good luck.

good luck. I really hope this is the end of your run of bad luck. All the best

OMG! Poor baby! I hope he/she will be all right.

I highly recommend you get a different type of filter, either a Fluval or a Cascade. Or even make your own canister filter; this forum has directions for one in the habitat indoor board. The Fluval and the Cascade do not have powerful suction like that.

Sorry about all these issues Glad you're taking him to the vet.

Can something be done about the filter... maybe a guard or something...

aww poor little baby hope everything works out for the little one

I should just not take my turtles to the vet anymore it a big waste of money for this to happen...................... I swear what does god have against me. I spend endless amount of money and this just keeps happening while others can throw a turtle in 10gallon or 20gallon tank with dirty water and no light and have it live forever.

R.I.P. Concentric DBT I did not name yet

Im so upset/angry right now Im ready just give all my turtles away for free to anyone and just to idk what! Argh

The guard on filter is perfect, I took all my turtle and shoved there feet at it, it is impossiable to shove the feet through it unless you shoved maybe really hard, idk how the heck he did it. The suction of the intake is nill too you cant feel any movement toward it at all. Had same filter with same intake for 3 years and not one problem.

Im sorry for your loss

Sorry to hear it

That's such a shame...I'm sorry s/he didn't make it.

Diamondbacks4Life wrote:I should just not take my turtles to the vet anymore it a big waste of money for this to happen...................... I swear what does god have against me. I spend endless amount of money and this just keeps happening while others can throw a turtle in 10gallon or 20gallon tank with dirty water and no light and have it live forever.

R.I.P. Concentric DBT I did not name yet

Im so upset/angry right now Im ready just give all my turtles away for free to anyone and just to idk what! Argh

The guard on filter is perfect, I took all my turtle and shoved there feet at it, it is impossiable to shove the feet through it unless you shoved maybe really hard, idk how the heck he did it. The suction of the intake is nill too you cant feel any movement toward it at all. Had same filter with same intake for 3 years and not one problem.

Are the diamond backs that you keep usually wild caught, or captive bred? These two things make a big difference in how a DBT responds to their environment.

You gotta understand that older turtles are very destructive. Sadie has banged up her Fluval already, not severely and it still works fine but she could ruin it if she wanted to. It's better to go with a canister filter that has no suction area that can be messed with. Turtles have those big nails and they LOVE to pry things apart. My little ones are especially big on disassembling stuff.

All captive, wild diamondbacks do poor taken from wild and usually never take to pellet food. All mine eat pellets and are not shy at all, I trust the people i bought them from that said they were captive raised dbts

I am so sorry to hear about your bad luck.

You said something that really made me think for a moment. I know that there are lots of people out there that have turtles that live a long time in very poor conditions etc...but remember you are giving these turtles a great life! It's not up to you how long they will live. The important thing is that you care about them. Your luck will change. Life is just like this. In my own life I've gone from the worst tragedies (a string of deaths of family and friends in 2 years), but that doesn't mean I'm going to give up. Your love for your turtles is really admirable and special.

DB4Life- Try asking "jozzep", one of the board members here, about different ways to take care of DBT's. He has about I think 8 of them, and even breeds them in his spare time.