Turtle limbs are swollen....help?

Question

I noticed today that my female red ear slider turtle's limb were very badly swollen.Could anyone offer some good advice or might know what the problem is? I am very worried about her. I tried to feed her and she won't eat and she isn't swimming or using her limbs that much.Any suggestions.

Answer 1

Take her to a vet.

Scroll about halfway down the page and pick your state/country, your city or the city nearest you, call a vet on the list and GO!

http://www.anapsid.org/vets/

Answer 2

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

Are you feeding fish and leafy greens?  Is the water clean.  I have NEVER in 36 yrs with my girls heard of swollen limbs.  Could be respiratory issues.

Is she basking 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.

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.

Your feeding  her  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!

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, crickets, flies, crayfish small frogs, dragon flies and  anything that moves!

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.

I wish you luck.

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