General Care Discussion :: Please Help Me!!!

[KyleRasmussen]

Please help me all!!!! I have a RES who is male and is about 3 years old. Today I was cleaning his tank and he was out of water for about half an hour, maby more, when I was ready to put him back in, i noticed white dots on the top of his shell!!!!

I do not think it was air bubbles form a scute about to fall off, because i couldn't move them around with my finger nail. I put him back in the water and they are still there. I dont think it was a mineral deposit aswell because there was no bumps on the shell I could scratch off.

What are some more sypmtoms of shell rot? The white dots are about as big as this " O " to about as small as this " . ".....Please help me!!!!!

[steve]

I moved this topic from urgent care. I also do not know why you have this as a poll question, but I suggest you search the forum for other "White Spot" topics. There are many such topics regarding that subject.

And as usual, a picture of the problem may help.

[marisa]

By white dots, are there a lot? Can you post a pic of the shell dry?

Compare what your turtle has with the pics at: http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Care/medshell.htm Is it anything like that?

[KyleRasmussen]

Thankyou alot for your help...the white spots seemed to go away after awhile... maby it could be broughten on from stress? I'm not sure, but thankyou for your help it realy came in handy

[marisa]

I seriously doubt that stress would give a turtle spots on the shell like you described. Perhaps it was from something that was in the tank?

[KyleRasmussen]

I don't think so, and i was just making a guesse, i clean his tank throughly every week or so