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URGENT!!! PAINTED WON'T EAT!!!

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Posted by: mezmerize at Wed Aug 3 13:56:54 2005  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mezmerize ]  
   

My painted is sick because of a wound on his shell and abcesses on his plastron. I have him on systemic antibiotics and topical sulfadiazine, and i'm dry docking him 10-14 hours daily. Because of all this stress, he is not eating as much. In the past few days he has only had 3-4 turtle pellets and 1 small minnow. The vet says to let him eat as much food as possible with out over feeding for the next few weeks. My main concern is getting him to eat more live fish though because he doesn't seem to be interested. Is there any way to maybe spark his appetite and get him to eat more live fish?



Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Matt


   

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