What antibiotic do you recommend for internal use? In all your years have you never seen a turtle in captivity with the "dry" scud shell rot? I have a friend who is a herpetologist and he agrees that after seeing pics of this nature that it is a pseudomonas bacteria. It doesn’t have to be pitted and pink to be a form of bacteria. All the people that disagree with me on this give me a long list of accomplishments such as number of years working with turtles, places they have worked, and experiences but none of them have given me hard evidence that its not bacteria. They just say it doesn’t "look" like bacteria. Take the acid test, treat it and we will see who's right



P.S. the reason I ask about the internal antibiotics is because my vet gave me a prescription of the silverdyne but was hesitant about internal use as he didn't want to sterilize any guts. What do you recommend?

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• I'm pretty sure this is shell rot - Andrew_Myers, Mon Oct 13 21:23:34 2003
• another pic - Andrew_Myers, Mon Oct 13 21:24:38 2003
• RE: Pretty sure it is not - erico, Tue Oct 14 13:41:48 2003
• RE: Pretty sure it is not - MatthewT, Tue Oct 14 15:05:15 2003
• RE: Pretty sure it is not - MatthewT, Thu Oct 16 23:02:35 2003
• Ha, don't know who to trust... - Andrew_Myers, Tue Oct 14 20:33:17 2003
• RE: Whom do you trust? - erico, Wed Oct 15 09:33:49 2003
• RE: Whom do you trust? - MatthewT, Thu Oct 16 23:11:55 2003
• RE:shell rot - erico, Fri Oct 17 15:52:09 2003