If a turtle suffers from rotten skin disease, it usually takes a month to recover. Rotten skin disease is a common disease of turtles, mainly caused by poor water quality, or because turtles bite each other, resulting in bacterial infection of the wound. After the disease, the skin will be white and ulcerated, while emitting a putrid odor, if not treated in time, it will lead to death.
1, dry care: the treatment of putrid skin disease, the first thing to do is dry care. Because the rotten place can not be wet, so can not always let the turtle soak in the water, but because complete dehydration will also affect its health, so still need to soak three times a day, each time for half an hour.
2. Medication: If you want to prevent decay from spreading and causing the disease to worsen, you need to give it some medicine. First, use iodophor to smear the diseased part, and then use a little erythromycin ointment. If it can feed itself, oxytetracycline powder can be added to food, which can also play a therapeutic role.
3. Prevention: To prevent putrid skin disease, the first thing to do is to change the water in time. If the water quality is good, it is not easy to get sick. Usually after each feeding, you can change the water for it, change the water completely, but make sure that the water temperature will not change too much, so as not to affect its health.
