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RE: HELP razor back musk

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Posted by: shambala at Sat Nov 10 16:55:18 2007  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by shambala ]  
   

80 degrees is a bit toasty, infact its extremely hot. You want a warm basking area and normal room temp water. These guys don't live in shallow hot rainforest pools they are stream dwellers in the U.S.

1. Take the heating element out of the water and add a spot light at one end of the enclosure under a haul out (dry log/rock etc. see if you can get the water temps in the low 70's

2. Make sure the little fella has plastic plants and junk to hide in. Make him feel secure.

3. Try a live earthworm. Very few creatures will pass up a tastey worm.

4. Make sure you filter or change the water well. Dirty, hot, unfiltered water will be the death of him.

I'm sure once he experiences the cooler, more oxegenated water and sees that worm he'll snap out of it.

As far as the missing claws: I don't know off the top of my head what that might be. Reptiles lose claws and other horny parts of their bodies when they are not kept in conditions for which they are adapted. I don't know of this specifically in turtles, but its possible.

If you have any specific questions send them to my email as I don't frequent these forums often. Nasicus@hotmail.com

DAN


   

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