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<img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=889344" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> <!-- BEGIN STANDARD TAG - 728 x 90 - Lycos - Tripod Fallthrough - DO NOT MODIFY --> <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&amp;ad_size=728x90&amp;section=209094"></iframe> <!-- END TAG --> | | Red-Ear Slider Turtles | | Home | | Introduction of the Red-Eared Slider Turtle | History and Taxonomy | Diseases and their cures | Feeding time! | Photo Album | Related Links | Contact Me | | | Diseases and their cures | | | | | | There are so many diseases a captive turtle can get.All of us as owners or breeders should know the most common ones.As we know turtles unlike many herptiles ,dont give any signs of an illness so we have to be alert.It is up to us to know when illness in going to attack our turtles and identify them right away.We also must know their cures.This is we I wrote this page.To teach you the many diseases and cures.

includes pictures of the sickness | | SALMONELLA.This is one of the most diseases associated with turtles.People over the years have becoming more and more concern about his one.Before this years ,it was a najor issue in connection of keeping a turtles as pets that eventually led to the 1975 food and drug Administration's ban on the sale of turtles with a carapace lenght of under 4 inches.Salmonella is a intestinal infection that attack many living thingsMany animals along with turtles are know to carry this disease.Salmonella is transmitted through dirty water.It also comes from infected food when it is shipped to a place.They all sit in one giant vase will waiting

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