Hi! I have two Redeared Sliders, and up until now they have been perfectly healthy, eating fine and everything else was a sit should be. They are only about 6 months old. 2 days ago, one stopped eating, and it has this weird thing going on with its skin. It looks like its skin is shedding off, like how a gecko or other lizard would shed. I suspect its excessive shedding, but I dunno. Any ideas? Aside from this weird skin thing, or what appears to be shedding, the turtle looks perfectly normal in every way.

Also, at the same time, these....things...appeared on the inside of the tank glass. They are SUPER tiny, white, and wormlike, like maybe a millimeter long..I dunno what they are, they are like little parasites or something. They move across the tank glass in a sluglike manner. These things are not on the turtles, in the gravel, or anywhere else that i can see or find, they are *only* stuck to/on the tank glass, and they don't come out of the water, they stay under the water and at the water level, not above it. What are these things??? I've looked everywhere I could think of online and have had no luck thus far.
Could these little creatures have anything to do with why one of the turtles decided to stop eating, and appears to be shedding in gross amount?
Any help would be much appreciated as we have no vet here to take our reptiles to.
Thanks!

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