General Care Discussion :: Turtle Passed Weird Yellow Slime

[reptilegrrl]

I think my turtle is ok, but i want to run this by the experts to get some other opinions and see if anyone has seen this before. Please don't reply if you don't have a firm idea of what this might be.

it's super-cold here right now so my turtle, Al, has been inside for some days. He's usually dry but is soaked daily. Today i put him into water to soak and he passed something weird- it was BRIGHT FREAKING YELLOW like organic egg yolk, and very very shiny. it stayed together in a mass when i picked it up to get a closer look at it. It appeared to be some clear mucus and some of this yellow stuff.

Al will not eat when out of his habitat so he hasn't eaten in several days. I just tried offering him food again with no luck. Any one here ever seen this stuff before? Should I worry about this?

He is still active, not sunken-looking or lethargic. So i am pretty sure he's not dying, i've just never seen anything like this come out of his butt before.

p.s. my shift key is broken, please excuse the horrible capitalization errors.

[steve]

Approximately how much of this stuff is there? When I dry dock my male RES overnight, he usually produces something similar almost as soon as I put him in back in the water. Its a very small amount, about the size of the head on a map pin... actually, even smaller than that. How many times a day are you soaking him?

[reptilegrrl]

I have been soaking him once a day, but i am sad to say that he did not get soaked yesterday. I felt so bad when he started gulping water today! I am in the finals crunch and it just didn't get done. to make sure that doesn't happen again we're giving up on the weather and setting up a second hab for him indoors. The pond is just too cold for him right now.

i've never seen him pass anything like this before, though, even when in drydock and being soaked.

It was sort of stringy, but if it was combined and flattened i would say it covered the surface area of a dime.

[Hoooneylynn]

He needs to be in water more than that, he can become dehydrated.

[reptilegrrl]

He needs to be in water more than that, he can become dehydrated.

While i am quite aware that my turtle can become dehydrated, soaking for a few hours once a day is sufficient to keep that from happening. When he had a fungus before, the vet said to keep him dry and soak him only once a day.