Is my baby turtle sick?

dont listen to feeding 3 times a day you will kill it! they are suposed to be feed 1 time a day a portion the size of there head excluding necks (I know its not a lot) turtles always beg for more but they can eat themselves to death

turtles sun 12-14 hours a day sometimes and are active swimming the rest of the time or sitting around some turtle are shy and will dart off when your near and will only sun at night when the house is still but yours is resting during the day instead if your realy worried next time you end up getting up around 1 2 or 3 ish check out your turtle

if you want a active turtle during the day you can try switching it by leaving the basking ubv light off during the day and leaving it on at night

always 12-14 hours

add cuttle bone for calcium its simple and often used for birds you just let it float in your tank and your turtle will nibbles at it when they need calcium (you wont see them cuz Im sure yours will at night) cuttle bone lasts a very long time as the turtle dosint eat it all at once so you will bearly ever need to replace it without cuttle bone (or other calcium supplement) your turtle will get Metabolic bone disease (witch is a softening of shell near tail that if not caught soon can be deadly) or other diseases

obviouse signs of sickness

sneeze

cough

bubbles from nose

nose of eny kind when breathing

softening of shell

fuzy shell or skin (dont mistake as shedding of shell and skin)

closed eyes all the time (not just when they could be sleeping but when swimming too)

swollen eye

swollen ear

swollen cheek

(skin shedding looks like white/transparent layers waving in ragged peaces off them. shell shedding scutes the little separite hexagons on shell turn white somtimes when they slowly peal off one at a time . do not help and tear them off . leave basking lamp on longer hours when there shedding it helps. should shedd when nearing year mark or half way)

hope this helped!

It's probably just scared that you just got if i were you i would make its tank a little more like home put a basking spot, places for it to hide, climb on, aquatic plants, and also feed it regularly 3 times a day (morning,afternoon,and at night

no, i dont think so. turtles lay alot. check on him at night, and see what hes doing, cause my friend has a turtle and he is a night guy. Lol

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idk my turtle was like that then he died and after he died we realized why do u have heat lamp and like a uv lamp(the uv lamp is kinda blue when its lit up) over the take because the uv lamp is like the sun if u keep them insiden and it privides them more calcium and stuff like that so if u dont u have one need to get one cause that maybe the problem