Posted by:
erico
at Tue Aug 16 11:10:53 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by erico ]
Often tail wounds will heal on their own if the turtle is kept isloated and in clean water. The best treatment I have found is the topical application of triple antibiotic (generic of Neosporin - don't waste your money on the brand name) which stays on well in the water. If it looks bad, injectable antibiotics such as amikacin or Baytril will help prevent infection. If the cloacal area is involved, things are much more complicated. Unfortunately, even after a good healing, other turtles will often continue to attack the pink stub. Also, there are some individual turtles that are chronic tail-biters and must be isolated. Your turtle most likely died of overwhelming bacterial sepsis, however, and the limb damage was probably due to post-mortem feeding on the corpse by its tank-mates. This is a regular occurence after a death from any cause in a community tank, even if the tank-mates are normally well-behaved.
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RE:Some comments - erico, Tue Aug 16 11:10:53 2005