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My lilbuddie has dry cracked skin- is it a vitA deficiency? What more should I feed him? Carrots?

>>My lilbuddie has dry cracked skin- is it a vitA deficiency? What more should I feed him? Carrots?

Does he live indoors? I find that my indoor box turtles who for various reasons can't live outside full time yet tend to have dry skin problems in winter. The more we turn the heater on inside, the drier they'll get.
We live in a low humidity climate to begin with then the dry heat makes it worse.
I've solved the problem by adding a little bit of Stress Coat to their soaking water. It's made for aquarium fish. I know people use it to soak their amphibians & hermit crabs in. I thought if it's safe for fish, amphibians & crustaceans... it can't hurt my turtles. It hasn't.
It really does help when you know for sure that they are getting their vitamins & minerals in their regular diet.
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PHRatz

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Vitamin A can be extremely dangerous to tortoises. Do some research on it before you attempt to give them more vitamin A.

http://www.turtlerescues.com/vitamin_a.htm

I didn't mean to scare you from adjusting diet, because that's usually a safe way to go, just a word of caution on vitamin A and its affects.