What do I do if my red-eared aquatic turtle's eye is closed shut?

Answer 1

The most common problem in slider hatchlings are eye infections. These infections develop due to dirty water and lack of vitamin A. The treatment is easy: Change the water more often (get a filter if you can), add higher doses of vitamin A to her diet. Ask your pharmacist to prepare you a solution of 97% distilled water and 3% boric acid. Clean the turtles eyes with this solution twice a day. If the eyes are totally closed, try to open them so that the solution gets inside. Raise temperature at 85 degrees F. If the infection is severe take the turtle to a vet since she will need to be injected with vitamin A.

ALSO:

• TAKE YOUR TURTLE TO THE VET
• She may have ammonia burns
• You should definitely have a filter
• Do a 30-50% water change every few days, or at least a full water changes every week
• It is ESSENTIAL you change the tank water frequently, as visible algae and invisible toxins can build up to harmful levels

Answer 2

The turtle might be blind, or nearly blind. The main cause of blindness is from black lights. At night, a lot of people actually remove the basking light and screw on a black light bulb to make the turtle and the aquarium look cool. However this is actually one the quickest ways to blind any reptile. If you did this, there is no cure. If it can still see then it's most likely an eye infection from not cleaning the water too often or it can be a result from keeping adult males together in a small tank, which causes common male aggression resulting in eye damage. The best thing to do is keep your adult male turtles separate, clean the water more then you usually do and bring a stool sample to the vet so he can see if it has an infection. I have a red eared slider myself and it is not nearly blind like that other person said,that glaze is used when sleeping or just closing the eyes just like alligators when they go under water, they put that smae glaze over their eyes to. From your friend Kiki,12 years old I too have a young red-eared slider turtle. Your problem might not be either of the above answers, but rather 1) that your turtle has a calcium or vitamin A deficiency in his/her diet. In this case you should feed a variety of foods including liver, green vegies and fish. OR, 2) your turtle has ammonia burns. In this case you should change the tanks water immediately and go to the vet. With thanks to TJ Thornton's book: 'Keeping Red-eared Turtles in New Zealand'

Answer 3

I would recommend taking it to a vet, even if to just get eyedrops. It could be a warning sign of a much bigger problem. You'll have to make sure that the vet is qualified for herps - Most of the time, your dog-and-cat vet won't know what to do with a sick turtle.

Answer 4

It needs to go to the vet immediately or it will die. You must get a filter and keep the water clean!

Answer 5

No he is just growing if its just his puple. If his hole untire eye is then he has a rare decese so take him to the vet.

Answer 6

Yes, I jave just noticed one of my new turtles has no eyes whatsoever, I have no idea how common it is though or the reason for it

Answer 7

Take this turtle to your exotic animal vet imediatly. if you don't have one, look one up near you and drive there and say its an emergancy

Answer 8

shes dead