Help with turtle!!! :(

[novek]

hey my turtle doesnt use his turtle dock his a juvanile and is about 7 months, i got him out just recently and his shell is soft i have all the right setup need some help

 

[Gavin]

hey my turtle doesnt use his turtle dock his a juvanile and is about 7 months, i got him out just recently and his shell is soft i have all the right setup need some help

Use calcium block thingo, take him out to natural sunlight and put calcium supplements like rep-cal on ur food. Dont worry, it happend to mine too...it didnt seem to like the turtle dock but i wud tease them with food and put it on the dock so they swim up, but then they dive back down straight away

 

[melgalea]

i got some baby turts a few years back and there shell was soft and stunk.
make sure u have calcium blocks in the water as suggested. also take him out into the sun every day or two for half an hour or so. i usually use a large tub with a few inches of tank water in it so he doesnt dry out to quick in the sun. make sure he has some shade though, u dont want him to toast out there.
as far as the turtle dock is concerned, he will be using it. my 3 yr old turt only uses it when we arnt there to look. sometimes if i get up during the night and turn the kitchen light on he is on it. and he looks at me as if he has been cuaght out, then dives quickly off into the water. . make sure u always wash ur hands before and after handling him as well.

 

[Gavin]

hey my turtle doesnt use his turtle dock his a juvanile and is about 7 months, i got him out just recently and his shell is soft i have all the right setup need some help

btw is urs a murray short neck?

 

[novek]

thanx for the replys. He is an eastern long neck