Not sure what exactly this is but it’s been growing. Looks like some sort of fungal on the flipper, any thoughts or remedies? Water parameters are fine no issues..
Fly River Turtle Fungus on flipper?
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Not sure about turtles too much but I’d dab or soak the area with hydrogen peroxide.
ACRIFLAVINE 15-20 minute soak every 2 days. This is a fungal issue, pristine, warm water at a high PH 8.0-8.5, marine salt and bring it up to pretty much brackish conditions .004-.005. These turtles get brought in at a small size in mass amounts and the conditions they get shipped over in are just terrible, but when a turtle costs $25 and you can resell them at a much much higher price, people won't care. If you feel like that's not working after about 2 weeks or it gets worse, you can attempt to use betadine, let it dry on the area before putting the turtle back in the tank. Personally, if it got worse I'd take it to a vet. But, if you do all of the above, you'll see good improvement quickly, just hope the fungal infection didn't go too deep.
Shell Rot / Fungus FRT not improving ? Please any suggestions
Hi :) thanks for accepting so quickly I’ve been trying for a month to get approved on turtle forum So, I recently was gifted an FRT (about 6” wide) & he had what I was told was not shell rot but “mystery fungus” but looks like shell rot to me. I had a pet store soft shell around this size...
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Funny enough, I ordered the medication milkman suggested which got stuck in shipping so I decided to try your hydrogen peroxide approach. Soaked the flipper for 30 mins every 2 days along with pristine water and raising PH and Temp like milkman suggested and I think it might’ve healed!
