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woodnative
at Thu Jul 24 18:29:26 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by woodnative ]
Ken (or others): Do you have evidence that these infections generally cure on their own? In your experience is it generally unnecessary to lance/clean, supply antibiotics to a turtle with such an infection.
Luckily my turtles have never gotten one of these type of infections (knock on wood). However, last year I came across a wild male with both "cheeks" swollen to the point that they looked almost to bursting. "He" had to be hurting. The rest of his body/shell etc. looked good, and he was otherwise in his prime. Not being rich (I majored in bio too!), I wasn't going to take him to a vet, and released him after a good soaking (it was during a dry spell). Hopefully, mother nature was easy on him.
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