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RE: Turtle shell has algie on it

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Posted by: mp at Sun Apr 8 22:37:10 2007  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mp ]  
   

when my snapper gets algae I use a little plastic scrub brush on him since he's about 6 inches across. But if he's shedding he's more sensitive to it and really doesn't like it. So when yours gets to a shedding phase I would just let it go, it'll fall off by itself. You'll know they're shedding by the tiny pieces of skin hanging off all over. Mine looks like a little old man with a beard when he's full blown. Pretty funny actually. Otherwise the scrubbing won't hurt them.


   

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