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Diseases with turtles

These information and pictures were kindly given to me by Ursi and Thomas Eggenschwiler. The copyright of the following table remains with them. You find the weblink of their web page here.

Information about herpes

Information about parasites

 

Problem

Picture

Reason

Diagnostics

Prevention

Abscesses and injuries

Skin lesion by byting

cloaca injuries by mating

Optically

Control animals also at the bottom side

Group composition

enclosure structure

Airway illnesses

wet nose

Pneumonia

Herpes !

clinically

X-ray

Bloodserology

tongue reduction

Temperature control

Keeping high air humidity

epidemic prophylaxis

Breeding problems

wrong nutrition

bad maintenance conditions

clinically

X-ray

clarification of appropriate keeping conditions

Movement disturbances

.

gout, kidney inflammation, eggbound, abscesses

Herpes !

Blood

X-ray

Keeping prophylaxis

Dysentery

.

Dietary, parasitic

Excrement investigation microscopically

Feeding preliminary report

eventl. bacteriological investigation

Keeping prophylaxis

Urine paragraph disturbances

Blister overstreching

Blister stone

Dehydration

Parasite

clinically

puncture and microscopice evaluation

Keeping

Eggbound

.

Movement dislike

Hind leg weakness

Partially for long time symptom-free !

After X-ray control evetl. Ecbolic (Oxitozin)

Keep females stressfree

optimize oviposition

place separate males

Renal disease

.

Gout due to too protein-rich food

Nephrosis due to medicine side effects

Blood values (urine acid values)

parasitolgic investigation

adequate fodder

Caution with the use of medicines

Tank defects :

Dog or marten bites

Downfall

Ramming impacts by mating males

Frostbite

Bacterial infections

Kidney illness

clinically

Educate dogs

protect enclosures

Parasite !

Thread worms

Reeling worms

Hexamits

Amoebas

Excrement investigation (natively enriched)

with Hexamits also examine urine

.

Prolapse

Penis or uterus incident (intestine incident rarely)

Abrupt end of the kopulation

clinically

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