my turtle has black eyes is it hurt?

Unless its swollen eyes syndrome, it needs vitamin A. Keep water at 79 degrees.

I have never seen black eyes.

Vitamin A comes from vegetable and fruits like Tomatoes

Cantaloupes Watermelon Peaches Kiwi

Oranges Blackberries Sweet potato Kale Carrots

Spinach Avocado Broccoli Peas Asparagus

Squash - summer , strawberries.

Peas . Get some baby food lie peas or squash and put it on his beak.mouth and maybe he will like it off. Vitamins are so important for us all.

Did you know that they need to bask under a reptile light UVA for 8 to 10 hrs a day for the vitamin D that they need to grow. So that means getting a turtle dock also. Leave the heater on 75 to 78 degrees always.

Their water needs to be clean otherwise they get sick easily from dirty water cause they poop allot.

You need a good filter system! Gravel larger than they can swallow.They need a large tank to start.

You need to feed them feeder guppies, goldfish or minnows for protein and calcium daily drop 20 or so in the tanks and watch them disappear! This way when they swim for their dinner they get exercise also!

TOSS in a bird cuttle bone in the water for calcium. it will dissolve real slow and if they eat it that’s fine!!

They can have garden worm, meal worms, crickets, flies, crayfish and anything that moves!

They need leafy greens Romaine, Butter lettuce. (Iceberg and cabbage are bad for them, any other leafy greens will do) for vitamin A that they need at least 3 to 4 times a week.

You probably already know that they get sick easily, shell rot, respiratory sickness, lopsided swimming, coughing, blowing bubbles, Swollen cloudy eyes means lacking in Vitamin A. Which we all need for good eyes. Google ‘vegetables with Vitamin A.

I wish you luck.

Contact the “herpetologicalsocieties.com, for a turtle vet in your city and state

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ohh god the poor turtle take him to the vet, hopefully you are not like 10 years old keeping him in a 5 gallon tank with no uva, uvb, heater, filter, obviuously you know absolutely nothing about turtle care so here.......i am not trying to be rude at all, i am just trying to inform you on what they REALLY need! their supplies cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars more than the turtle itself!!!!!! Well just taking care of turtles is extremely difficult for a LOT of people because they are VERY high maintenence, no joke. But if you are responsible enough, this is a RES setup.they are very high maintenence and hard to take care of.first read all of this and see if you have this setup, it costs at least $300, and is a regular setup. ************ This is a setup for a red eared slider the most common type of turtle, they get up to 12 inches, but you will see them as babies at a store commonly, so know that they will grow very big************** You will need to get a 50 gallon starter tank and upgrade to a 75 gallon later on when your turtle is over 6 inches...If you can not get that big of a tank right now then for now you can use a huge rubbermaid container filled up with clean warm water 5/6 of the way. The water should be 75-82F, that can be achieved by buying a water heater at the petstore, along with a water filter. Water filters that are best are canister filters, like the Rena xp3 filter which costs $200, but filters very well. Do buy a filter please, even a cheap one at $25, is better then none at all, since turtles are extremely messy and poop-ful (haha). The bottom of the tank should be bare, no gravel because they could choke on that mistaking it for food. On top of the water you need 3 things, 1. a basking dock ( buy a large size zoomed basking dock). 2. you 100% need to buy a basking lamp+bulb, you buy them separatly, then screw the bulb in ( 50 watts) and shine it on the basking dock over a mesh hood( cut a hole out of it and place the light there!). 3. This is very important, you need a uvb light. It is a long thin light, you need to get the actual lamp+ the long skinny bulb. Reptosun 5.0 is the best bulb( together costs $55). Shine that onto the basking dock as well. Turtles need these together because they use the uva for heat, so they stay warm ( the basking site should be 90-95F, not colder) and they need the uvb rays to metabolize calcium and vitamin d3 for a stronger shell ( like you need it for your bones!) The diet for the turtle should be reptomin pellets ( and other nutricuos pellets!) crickets, mealworms, bloodworms, shrimp, and krill. All of this is found dead at the petstore!;) They also need vegetation, get kale, mustard greens, romaine lettuce, and collard greens. Drop all of the food in the tank once a day, and remove any leftover bits after a few hours. By the way ALL of the protien food ( dead food, that was alive once) should be dusted with a calcium supplement ( powder) and you need to get a cuttlebone found in the bird aisle of the petstore and drop it in the water for him to knaw on, keep it there for a while (month) until he eats all of it, then get another. Once all of these things are done your turtle will be pretty happy!

I think peek is on the right track but fruits and vegetables are poor sources of vitamin A (in general), which is an oil-soluble vitamin. Besides, those are for adult turtles. Babies are carnivores Cut strips of liver and try that. Just in case there are infections in both eyes, you might try dripping a boric acid solution over them..

whoa! ive never seen that before! when i first got my 2 res, one had a closed/puffy eye. i bought turtle eye drops, which did nothing. i later found out that he had a vitamin a deficiancy, but i fixed it with this food i got him.

i think the food was called turtle yummies, but all i remembered is that it smelled really bad. apparently this had the necessary vitamins the turtle needed, and his eye problem went away

i have 2 turtles and one of them had

gotten his eyes swollen and he couldnt open them..

but his eyes werent black. any way i did research

and my turtle needed more sun and stuff and it also

said u should put the turtle in warm water and it

will start rubbing its eyes and trying little by little

opening them... but, it could be something else

It looks like it has an eye infection..you need to see a vet for treatment, or eventually it will die.

looks like its bout to pop idk do some research or call a vet