Lack of daily care, poor water quality and sanitary conditions, not washing feeding containers for several days or even days, and not changing water are the main causes of the disease. Be sure to take care of the tortoise every day and observe it often. Change the water frequently and carefully scrub the feeding container every time. Ensure the hygiene of water quality and the cleanliness of feeding environment, otherwise it will cause diseases. Now I have pneumonia, so I need to take medicine immediately and treat it in time.
Pay attention to yourself or others. Don't touch turtles when you have a cold or cough, sneezing and other symptoms. It will cause pneumonia again through respiratory infection. Be sure to scrub the container that keeps it carefully ~! Daily water quality should also be hygienic and clean, so as to prevent pneumonia. Ensure that it lives a healthy life and will not get sick again. At the same time, it is also very important that the temperature and water temperature should not be high and low during feeding, and if the temperature difference is too high, chinemys reevesii will get sick.
How long have you bought your turtle? How did it eat every day before it got sick?
First of all, in the case of unknown pathogens, do not blindly choose penicillin drugs such as cephalosporin and amoxicillin for treatment, because if you catch up with pneumonia infection caused by gram-negative bacteria such as mycoplasma, chlamydia or Klebsiella, it will completely delay your illness. So is pneumonia caused by mycoplasma and chlamydia.
The landlord bought azithromycin dispersible tablets to give it medicine. Azithromycin is a broad-spectrum macrolide drug, which is very sensitive to various pneumonia pathogens.
When treating pneumonia with medicated bath, the concentration and dosage should be considered, and the lowest water level of medicated bath should also flood the whole body, otherwise it will be ineffective. Ordinary tablets and capsule powders have poor water solubility, so it is impossible to choose drugs of this kind of preparation. Dispersible tablets and granular preparations can be well dissolved in water and have a strong effect. If the tortoise can use the daily porcelain bowl, it can be put down. Use azithromycin dispersible tablets with half a bowl of water ~! ! Put two tablets at a time, change the water and change the medicine 1-2 times a day. Take a medicine bath. The effect is very remarkable. The water temperature during the medicinal bath is also very important, and the cure of pneumonia depends to the greatest extent. The water temperature for medicine bath and eating is 25 degrees. This is the best water temperature for turtles to eat. The water at this temperature feels like the water temperature when swimming in summer, and it feels neither cold nor hot. Mix warm water with cold water. It is appropriate to bathe the turtle with this water temperature and feed it daily.
The landlord quickly bought azithromycin dispersible tablets to soak in medicine bath. Dispersible tablets are different from ordinary tablets, which have the best water solubility and are easy to homogenize after entering water. Dissolve the medicine fully and evenly in water, and then put it into the tortoise. It is most suitable for daily consumption of turtle bowls. If the turtle can't hold the ordinary porcelain bowl, find a clean container, not too big, and add 500-800 ml of water (an ordinary mineral water bottle) to 2 Archie dispersible tablets. The lowest water level can completely submerge the sick turtle in order to play its due role. The amount of water should be strictly proportional, not too much, otherwise the concentration cannot be guaranteed and the treatment is invalid.
The turtle with pneumonia refused to eat because it was sick and uncomfortable. At this time, if the water temperature rises and falls, it will aggravate its condition. In this way, it is more necessary to control the water temperature, so that its physical condition can be alleviated as soon as possible, and it can recover and eat as soon as possible. It is forbidden to use hot water and warm water when bathing and feeding turtles, which will kill them. Cold water will not be eaten with cold water, because it can't meet the temperature standard for eating.
Sick turtles lose a lot of appetite. Turtles must be in the water to eat normally ~! There is no water or the water level is very low, you can't eat at all, you can't swallow food at all ~! Water temperature is the most critical factor to decide whether it eats or not ~!
Healthy turtles must be like this, and the water temperature is very important for the young turtles with pneumonia to eat and recuperate. If the water temperature can't be guaranteed, you can't recover from the disease, and you can't recuperate after recovery. He will eat slowly when he is well. After this recovery, you have to recuperate carefully for a while before you can recover.
During the healing period and at ordinary times, feed the soft-shelled turtle with fresh fish, fresh shrimp, live shrimp and live bread worms, which are the most suitable foods for soft-shelled turtle, much better than the soft-shelled turtle's food. Conducive to the growth and recovery of its body. Cut the small fish into small pieces and feed them with toothpicks, or put them in water and let them feed themselves in front. For some turtles, it doesn't eat the whole fish directly in the water, but needs to be cut into several sections ~! The same is true for shrimp. Peel off the head and tail of the shrimp, cut it into small pieces, put it in water or feed it. Try not to feed turtles with the meat of domestic animals such as pig lean meat, because there are many parasites in it and it is easy to get sick. There are also many shellfish parasites such as snails, and food parasites are very harmful to soft-shelled turtles.
Be careful not to feed the turtle salty food ~! ! For example, salty shrimp, ham sausage, etc., the intake of sodium chloride (salt) will cause its body edema, and it is not appropriate to be slightly salty.
It is very important to disinfect, clean and change the water of the turtle tank on time every day to ensure the clean water quality, so as to effectively prevent eye infections, blindness, pneumonia, skin tortoiseshell infections and other diseases.
May the tortoise of the landlord recover soon ~!