Small tortoise body long white a knot in one's heart, explain it suffered from scabies. This is a disease caused by fungi, pathogenic bacteria usually in the water, can also survive in the skin and intestinal tract of turtles, usually only when injured, the bacteria will multiply, and then lead to disease. In the early stage of the disease, it can eat, but the amount of food will gradually decrease, if serious, it will stop eating, and the reaction will become dull.
1, dry care: After the tortoise got scabies, the first thing to do is to isolate the tortoise, and dry care, so as to avoid its diseased parts of the water, leading to its condition continues to deteriorate. However, it should be noted that dry nourishment is not completely free from water, it should be soaked three times a day for about 30 minutes each time.
2. Medicine: There are some dirty things in the scabies of the tortoise, which need to be squeezed out by hand. Generally, it is a yellow or white bean dregs-like substance. After being squeezed out, it is necessary to apply iodophor on the diseased part, and also apply chlortetracycline powder on it, so that it will gradually recover.
3, feeding: Because this disease will cause it to stop eating, so we must pay attention to feeding food. You can hold the turtle in your left hand and the food in your right hand, force it into its mouth and let it swallow by itself. Food to speed up a certain amount of antibiotics, for the treatment of diseases also have some help.
