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How to Handle Parrot Diarrhea
Parrots pass urine and feces together, so extra water or fruit can look like diarrhea when it is not. True diarrhea is colored, watery, and mucoid with low appetite. Use garlic water, oxytetracycline, or probiotics, and prevent it with clean, varied food.
Why Is Your Turtle Vomiting?
Turtle vomiting can follow post-surgery weakness, big temperature swings, spoiled food, gut damage from overfeeding, or toxin ingestion. Fixes range from rest and warm water to antibiotics, probiotics, or induced vomiting for poisoning. This article covers the causes and treatments.
How to Get a Turtle to Eat
A turtle may refuse food because the water is below 15°C (it wants to hibernate), the water is below shell level (young turtles need water pressure to eat), it is bored of one food, or it is ill. Warm the water, raise the level, vary the diet, or treat illness. This article explains the four factors.
Why does my kitten keep tearing up?
From the photo the cat most likely has conjunctivitis from trauma, bacteria, viruses, or irritants. Signs are tearing, red eyes, and crusted lids; untreated it may spread. Find the cause; bacterial cases use oxytetracycline, viral cases need antiviral drugs.
What Should I Do If My Oscar Fish Has Tail Rot?
When you notice your Oscar fish has tail rot, the first step is to isolate it to prevent the infection from spreading to healthy fish. Next, identify the underlying cause and provide targeted treatment. If poor water quality is to blame, change the water immediately and keep it clean. For bacterial infections, treat the fish with a potassium permanganate bath. If the fish has developed tail rot disease, oxytetracycline or malachite green solution can be used.
Why does my turtle have yellow pimple-like bumps?
Yellow bumps on a turtle are considered caused by scabies disease, from Aeromonas hydrophila subspecies. Infected turtles develop bean-sized white scabs on neck and limbs that exude yellow-white curd-like contents when pressed. Isolate the sick turtle, squeeze out contents, apply iodine and oxytetracycline powder, insert antibiotic ointment cotton.
Why Is My Parrot Having Diarrhea, and What to Do
Parrot diarrhea is usually diet or disease. Mild diet cases self-heal or take probiotics; disease cases - salmonella, E. coli, Newcastle, enteritis, chlamydia - need the right drug and isolation. When unsure, try garlic water and warmth, then oxytetracycline, and ask a vet.
Why Is My Parrot Fish’s Belly Swollen?
A swollen parrot-fish belly means overfeeding and indigestion, pregnancy, or gut disease. Stop feeding and medicate for indigestion, ease water changes during pregnancy, and use norfloxacin or a stronger mix for enteritis - but find the cause first.
I’ve been supplementing calcium, but the right claw is weak and it walks unsteadily
Common causes of an unsteady bird are a cold, enteritis, or calcium deficiency. Based on your description you supplement calcium, ruling that out, so the unsteadiness may be from a cold or enteritis. For a cold, keep it warm and avoid drafts, add nutrition to its feed, and give cold medicine if needed. For enteritis, oxytetracycline can help.
What Causes Sunken Eyes in Arowana, and How to Treat It?
If the keeper finds the arowana's eyes sunken, treat at once, as it can be fatal. What causes it and how to treat? Our veterinarian explains sunken eyes in arowana.