The rotten skin of the turtle will cause the turtle to break its tail. In severe cases, it will cause the turtle to be healthy and eventually die. Of course, the broken tail of the turtle does not rule out the result of the turtle fighting and biting each other. How to prevent it? Tortoise docks its tail, what should I do after it is docked?

1. Tofu skin and tail:

Symptoms

The turtle's tail peels, erodes, ulcerates, breaks, and exposes muscle and bone until part or all of the tail is severed.

Causes

1. Poor water quality, corrosive bacteria growing in the water will erode the turtle's tail, resulting in peeling, erosion and ulceration of the turtle's tail , and the tail docking phenomenon will appear after a long time of erosion.

2. Turtles crawled and grabbed each other or competed for food, accidentally bitten or bit off their tails.

Prevention

1. Optimize water quality. Regularly disinfect and sterilize the water used for raising turtles and replace them regularly to prevent the growth of corrosive bacteria.

2. Treating wounds and antiseptics. For the peeling, eroded, ulcerated and broken parts of the turtle's tail, apply Yunnan Baiyao or purple syrup, 2-3 times a day, 1 course of treatment for 7 days. Generally, 2--3 courses of treatment can basically heal the wound.

Second, gnawing and docking:

There is no guarantee that any animals are 100% peaceful in getting along with each other, even if they move less often If several tortoises are kept together at the same time, they may also bite each other, and sometimes there will be bites or even broken tails. So how to deal with the docked tail caused by pet tortoise bites, let's take a look.

Causes

Excessive tortoise density and large differences in tortoise body size can cause tail biting among turtles, especially in the flowers of native tortoises in my country. Tortoise, tortoise, hawk-billed turtle (details) are the most common.

Temporary treatment

For sudden tail biting accidents, some of which are deep bites. It will cause tail bleeding (especially the strong tail of male turtles is bitten off, and the amount of bleeding is more), the turtle should be dried and treated in time, and Yunnan Baiyao powder should be used to stop the bleeding, and then apply any anti-inflammatory ointment to wrap the affected area.

Treatment

As long as the temporary treatment is done well, then apply medicine to the affected area regularly (eye ointment is preferred), and the wound will heal in about 3~4 weeks. will heal.

In the short term after the wound has healed, care should be taken to protect the injured tortoise. It is best to keep it alone to prevent secondary bites and further infection.