2008년 11월 21일 금요일

Up and around!

I'm really relived and glad that he's got his vigor back. He hardly close eye eyes and spread his legs loosely, basking on the log now.

Recovering from serious illness~

He was lying down on the log droopingly with closed eyes and spreaded legs. He also lost his appetite. I took him to one of a few vets who examine the reptiles. He was given shots of glucose and assumingly antibiotics and also was dropped eyewater on the eyes. I have given him eyewater-drops from two different eyewater bottles at a couple of minutes interval.
Several days after, he became active.
I was exclusively giving him fleshes of shrimps, dried anchovies and porks that he used to gorge on when he was healthy. For the first several days, he would try on bites but couldn't swallow successfully. The foods were springing back out of the mouth. However, now he can swallow and is moving around inside tank as usual.

May they live long healthy and happy!

Larry was ill, so I took out all of Larry's tankmates and fed Larry alone. These are my young kids who I wish long lives.
This was before I took him to a vet. I put him in a bowl so to see how he was.
My northern Diamondback Terrapin. I thank her for never bothering her tankmates.
Now I got to believe that this one is a male. His eye is gradually darkening.
You can tell maleness by the tail.