Hi Guys;

I have an adult male Spottie that lives with a female spotted & a female painted. The past week the males eyes are sticking shut & swollen almost like that of a newly caught Ornate Box Turtle. Kinda swollen with a opaqueness under the eye lids, he constantly stays out of his water under the basking light. None of his cagemates are showing any signs of this, they eat a pretty balanced diet of mealworms, fish, nightcrawers & reptomin turtle pellets with vitamin supplements added. They live in about 40 gallons of water in a plastic pool filtered by a Rena Filstar 3 canister filter so I don't think water cleanliness is coming into play here.

So far I've been treating his eyes with polysporin eyedrops & soaking him twice daily in saline solution. Only problem is I live in Newfoundland, Canada where there are NO herp Vets, so if I take him to the Vet I pretty much have to tell them what to do same as I did a couple yeras ago for an egg-bound Indigo snake. I was wondering about a Vitamin B shot for him. If so what would be the dosage for a 4 & 1/2 inch Spotted Turtle, I guess it would depend on his weight. Is there anything else I can do for the poor little guy, he was so healthy up to about a week ago & I'm afraid the others will get sick.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Dean

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