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Rennifer · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 1:26 am Post subject: Skin Fungus

Hate to make yet another thread about my poor little lethargic turtle, but I have new reason to believe it may be a skin fungus. I remember there being a link somewhere on this site that had excellent information on how to treat the fungus (Betadine, adding such and such amount of salt to the water, dry docking, etc.), but after scavaging all over the site I still haven't found it. If anyone knows anything that could help me it'd be much appreciated! Laughing

kx125rider · Level 2 Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 94 Location: louisiana

go to your local pet shop and they have a little white block shaped like a turtle and it has like sulfa Exclamation

turtle_grl77 · Level 4 Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 985 Location: Florida

That block contains calcium sulfate.

Linzlou83 · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:14 am Post subject:

They make a salt bath sulfa dip, I think ZooMed puts it out and you can get it any petstore with a turtle section. Works like a charm, but I have heard betadine and adding sea salt to water works too, but I'm not sure about the specifics.
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