| Vitamin
A |
Symptoms: Acute eye malformations, exhorbited
eyes, blured vision that can deteriorate to total blindness, white
spots in the carapace, loosing pieces of skin in neck and legs
as well as scutes.
How to prevent it: Vitamin supplements twice a week as
well as foods rich in vitamin A (water hyacinths, tomatoes, tetra gammarus
shrimp).
Treatment: Administer an inyection from 60 to 120,000 IU
of vitamin A par Kg and a second inyection two or three weeks later.
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| Vitamin
D3 |
Symptoms: Slowing growth rate, deformations of
th carapace, rachytism.
How to prevent it: Vitamin supplements twice a week, exposition
to direct sun or a full spectrum light from 8 to 12 hours per day.
Treatment: Injection of a multivitamin supplement.
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| Vitamin E |
Symptoms: Nodules, lipomes, abcesses of fatty
tissues.
Treatment: Injections of multivitamin supplements.
Removal of the abcesses.
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| Vitamins of the B group |
Symptoms: Problems of the central nervous system,
lethargy.
How to prevent it: Vitamin supplements twice a week.
Treatment: Injections of multivitamin supplements, oral
supply of cod liver oil, fish organs.
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| Iron (lack of) |
Symptoms: Deformations and slow growth rate.
Treatment: Foods rich in iron (beef liver, just while the
problem exist).
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Phosphorus and
Calcium (lack of) |
Symptoms: If those two items are not provided
in an equel balance, the turtle might suffer from similar symptoms to those
caused by the lack of vitamin D3 (It is important to note that vitamin
D3 is responsible for the fixation of Calcium and Phosphorus in the bones).
How to prevent it: Provide a cuttlebone to your turtle
or add a vitamin supplement rich in calcium to her food twice a week.
Treatment: Injection of a multivitamin supplement.
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