My turtle has one eye open and other closed why?

Question

sometimes he has an eye open the other closed why?? sometimes he closed both when swimming or is she sleeping> cause i just got her yesterday

Answer 1

If you bought her form pet co or pet smart that could be why, those big chain stores don't REALLY know how to take care of animals, I might have a eye infection.Take it too a vet, ( if your vet store is the same as mine) it will cost 15 $ for a eye exam and the drops are sold at any pet store and your vet could provide the drops.

If you did buy from pet co or pet smart, the turtle might not be as cared for as it would at a local pet store.

Answer 2

could be a vitamin A deficency.

From Petco..you can be sure of it..

The bigger the environment the bigger the healthier the turtle. Remember 10 gallons for every inch of turtle. I have used kiddy pools and plastic pond liners from most nurseries and worked great.

Did you know that they need to bask under a reptile light UVA/UVB for 8 to 10 hrs a day for the vitamin D that they need to grow. So that means getting a turtle dock also.

Leave the heater on 75 to 78 degrees always. These turtles in captivity do not hibernate their eating may slow down some but they will not hibernate.

Their water needs to be clean otherwise they get sick easily from dirty water cause they p**p allot.

Total Body length: 5-8" average, up to 12 inches max. Life span: 15-25+ years

Males have the longer front nails and are used in mating. And are considered mature at about 5 yrs old. You can’t start sexing till about  3” across.

You need a good filter system! Gravel larger than they can swallow.

You need to feed them feeder guppies, goldfish or minnows for protein and calcium daily drop 20 or so in the tanks and watch them disappear in a few days! When I got these two 36 yrs ago all we had in back then  were goldfish to feed , so after 36 yrs and still going strong. They can eat goldfish! I spend about 175.00 a month on fish ,goldfish and minnows. An Extra  75.00 on leafy greens and dried cubed tubiflex worms.

This way when they swim for their dinner they get exercise also!

They sleep at the bottom of rivers, streams. lakes or ponds or your tank to avoid predators like coyotes,  foxes, owls, hawks, possums, raccoons and even some wide mouth bass.

TOSS in a bird cuttle bone in the water for calcium. it will dissolve real slow and if they eat it that’s fine!!

They can have garden worms, meal worms, snails, crickets, flies, crayfish small frogs, dragon flies and  anything that moves, but only as a treat.

They need leafy greens Romaine, Butter lettuce. (Iceberg and cabbage are bad for them, any other leafy greens will do) for vitamin A that they need at least 3 to 4 times a week.

You probably already know that they get sick easily, shell rot, respiratory sickness, lopsided swimming, coughing, blowing bubbles from their nose.

**Swollen cloudy eyes means lacking in Vitamin A. Which we all need for good eyes. Google ‘vegetables with Vitamin A.

Contact the “www.anapsid.org/societies, for a turtle vet /  rescue in your city and state.

I wish you luck.

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Answer 3

means lack of vitamin A. you need to give it turtle eye drops. one or 2 drops per eye. or you can use cod liver oil. (can be bought from cheimst, boots or pharmacies) . give it a drop of cod liver oil and let it stay out of water for an hour. they dip him in warm water and let hims stay for 5mins before placing him back into his tank

Answer 4

he's winking at you ;)