murry river turtle shell bending

[Adictv]

he is just bigger than a 50c coin and the back end of his shell is bending up he has a 2.0 uv tube and a 5.0 clamp on reflector over his basking rock so i dont think its uv any ideas?

 

[FAY]

UV seems to be fine...must be lack of calcium.
Needs calcium in it's food and it's water.
Put half an inch of shellgrit in the water. This will increase the calcium in the water to 90parts per million overnight.
NSW water only contains 40 parts per million.
UV lights must be changed every 6 months, they still glow but do not radiate any UV.
Don't let them get hooked on bloodworms, they are high protein but have no calcium.
The need a proper balanced diet with turtle dinner.
Like a kid, if they had a choice they would live on ice cream, but would never be healthy.

 

[JasonL]

Yes, all the UV in the world won't help if the animal has a poor diet....

 

[Adictv]

i give him turtle dinner and blood worms he also eats fish that are in the tank when he can catch them lol ill put a calcium block in there and see how he gos

 

[JAS101]

i give him turtle dinner and blood worms he also eats fish that are in the tank when he can catch them lol ill put a calcium block in there and see how he gos

id be geting the turtle dinners and throwing them in the bin , as they arnt an ideal main food for any turtles.
is the turtle a long or short neck ?
i make my own turtle pudding , and even then i mix up what food they get [ from my pudding , to barra peices , roaches , crickets , garden worms , ect ect ]

 

[KRONYK94]

her dude i am going to suggest this site here for feeding and diet for your turtle

Feeding Your Pet Turtle

and may i suggest some feeder fish?
not hard to keep a small tank of gold fish.

good for feeding turtle.

have a good one.

chris