small tortoise eyes swollen open that suffering from white eye disease. This disease is mainly among red-eared turtles, ocellated turtles, yellow-throated turtles and other turtles, and mainly young turtles. There are several reasons for this disease, such as deterioration of water quality or excessive alkalinity, or a large number of bacterial infections, in addition to fighting and biting turtles can easily become inflamed, leading to its illness.
1, timely change of water: the main reason for white-eye disease is poor water quality, in view of this situation, it is necessary to change water in time. Usually, the water change cycle is the same as the feeding cycle, each time the water must be changed completely, because the water itself is not much, coupled with fecal pollution, less change can not improve the water situation.
2. Medication: Changing the water can prevent the disease from getting worse, but if you want to treat it, you still need to give it medication. Generally choose furacilin or furazolidone, add 30 mg per liter of water, soak for 40 minutes is appropriate. Usually, after 3-5 days of continuous immersion, the white eye disease will recover.
3. Daily prevention: If you want to prevent white-eye disease, you can usually feed some animal viscera, such as beef liver, chicken liver, etc., which can strengthen the nutrition of turtles and improve their disease resistance. Feeding containers must be disinfected, usually soaked in 10% salt water for 30 minutes.
