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      • BAD foods for turtles
      • Beak and nail trimming
      • Before you get a second turtle
      • Breeding turtles
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      • Calcium for turtles
      • Can I Feed Cheese?
      • Can I get sick from my turtle?
      • Can turtles see in color?
      • Cats, Dogs, Other Pets, and Turtles
      • Clubs - Benefits and Finding
      • Creams, Kissing, and TLC
      • Death of a Buddy: Do Turtles Mourn?
      • Dollar turtles
      • Drowning: First Aid
      • Dwarf Turtles, Miniature Turtles, Dollar Turtles
      • farenheit to celsius (very old code)
      • Fecal Samples and How to Obtain Them
      • Feeding Schedule, Dieting
      • Fighting, Biting and Pestering
      • Fish and turtles
      • Fluorescent Lighting and Why Your Turtle Needs It
      • Food list for picky eaters
      • Foods to avoid
      • Force feeding
      • Gender: Is my Turtle Male or Female?
      • Giving medicine
      • Heating Reptile Enclosures
      • Hibernation basics (indoor and outdoor)
      • holes in shell
      • Homemade storable box turtle food recipe
      • How do I get my turtle to eat new healthy foods?
      • How do I give medication?
      • How do I know my turtle is healthy?
      • How do turtles breathe? (They need air)
      • How long can turtles live?
      • How Much Work is a Turtle Compared to Other Animals?
      • How often and how much should I feed
      • How old is my turtle?
      • How to properly hold a turtle
      • Incubators for turtle eggs
      • Injections
      • Is my turtle lonely?
      • Is my turtle too fat? How can I tell?
      • Kissing
      • Marking turtles (with paint? No!)
      • Metabolic Bone Disease
      • My Turtle Doesn't Seem To Like Me
      • My turtle is not basking
      • My turtle is scared of me
      • My turtle is yawning - Is that normal?
      • My turtle stays in the water all the time
      • My Turtles Used to Get Along, but Not Anymore
      • Poisonous plants
      • Preserving Turtle Shells
      • Resources, Websites, Clubs, Rescues, Books
      • Room, Tank, and Pond Mates
      • Shell creams
      • Skin Problems: First Aid
      • Sources of Calcium
      • strange encounters
      • Swimming pools
      • Taming reptiles
      • Traveling
      • Turtle soup
      • Turtle, Tortoise, or Terrapin?
      • Vacation care (TBD)
      • Vibrating front legs & Shell scratching
      • Vitamin A and swollen eyes
      • Vitamin k
      • What Other Animals Can I Keep With My Turtle?
      • Where Can get a Turtle?
      • Where can I get a mini-turtle?
    • Help!
      • Adoptions: Find a new home
      • Dead Turtle Syndrome (DTS)
      • Don't Let Me Go!
      • Help! I found a turtle
      • Help! I found a turtle nest !
      • Help! My Turtle Is Sick!
        • Colds, Respiratory Issues, Pneumonia
        • common health problems
        • Common problems (by Evergreen)
        • Constipation
        • Diarrhea
        • Eating Problems, Giving Medicine, Force-feeding
        • First Aid for Bites, Dogs, Raccoons, and Other External Injuries
        • Flukes and leeches
        • Foam at Turtle's Mouth
        • Gaping and yawning and wheezing
        • Paralysis or dragging of rear legs
        • Puffed up turtle
        • Runny Nose
        • Seeing a veterinarian
        • Shedding of Scutes: Clear vs. Transparent; Shedding Skin
        • Shell Injuries: Repairing a Cracked Shell
        • Shell Problems: More Information and Treating
        • Skin problems
        • Soft Shell, Calcium, Vitamin D3, Reptile Lights
        • Stool Ingestion: Harmless? (My turtle eats its poop.)
        • Take your sick turtle to the vet!
        • White Spots/Patches on the Skin of my Turtle?
      • Help! my turtle laid eggs!
    • Indoor Turtle Setups
      • Clean water and water problems
      • Filtration basics for turtle tanks
      • Fish in a Turtle Tank?
      • Heater tube
      • Heating Turtle Tanks
      • Instant Indoor Setups
      • Light
      • Quarantine Setups
      • Water changes - why?
    • Other Guides and Articles
      • BAARS Club (SF Bay Area)
      • Breeding worms
      • Day gecko (Phelsuma grandis)
      • Duck and Duckling Care
      • Floating Pond Plant Islands
      • Hermit Crab Care - An Alternative Guide
      • simple child setup
      • Small snake setup
      • Stick insect setup
      • Taking Great Cellphone Pictures
    • Outdoor Turtle Setups
      • 0. Pond basics
      • 2-story free-standing pond
      • Atrium Pond
      • Backyard turtle and koi pond
      • Covered mini-pond
      • Instant Outdoor Setups
      • Outdoor box turtle setups
      • Outdoor Hibernation
      • Outdoor Setups, Ponds, and Racoons
      • Plant-growing pond
      • Pond Critters
      • Temporary surface pond
      • Turtles and Koi Fish
    • Care Sheets
      • 0. Are You Ready for a Turtle?
      • 1. Water Turtle Basics
      • 2. Water Turtle Feeding
      • 3. Water Turtles Health
      • 4. Baby water turtles care
      • 5. American Box Turtles
      • Asian Box Turtles (Cuora spp.)
      • Diamond Back Terrapins
      • Geomyda spengleri
      • Indian flapshell turtle (Lyssemis punctata)
      • Leopard Tortoises
      • Painted Turtles
      • Slider Turtles
      • Snapping Turtles
      • Softshell turtles (basics)
      • Supplies
      • What species is my turtle?
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Turtle Care and Sick Turtle Help

Care Sheets

  • 0. Are You Ready for a Turtle?
  • 1. Water Turtle Basics
  • 2. Water Turtle Feeding
  • 3. Water Turtles Health
  • 4. Baby water turtles care
  • 5. American Box Turtles
  • Asian Box Turtles (Cuora spp.)
  • Diamond Back Terrapins
  • Geomyda spengleri
  • Indian flapshell turtle (Lyssemis punctata)
  • Leopard Tortoises
  • Painted Turtles
  • Slider Turtles
  • Snapping Turtles
  • Softshell turtles (basics)
  • Supplies
  • What species is my turtle?


More excellent care sheets:

  • San Diego Turtle and Tortoise Society Care Sheets
  • Melissa Kaplans Herp Care Colletion

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Disclaimer: All information is provided "as is" and with the best intentions. However, I don't know everything and I make mistakes. You are responsible for verifying any advice given on these pages!

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