Hi, I am after some help with Nesty. Thanks for all of the great threads on heat stress and dealing with cycling of the tank.
We have had Nesty for almost a year and she ( who we thought was a he hence the name Ernesto ) has always been a solid eater and very chipper. Our 5 year old daughter 'plays' with Nesty lots from the outside of the tank.. reading books to her, setting up a fairy garden outside the tank - and usually she follows our daughter around and seems very interested in our daughter's activities.
Since we moved three weeks ago we had some problems with heat (we live in Brisbane Australia) but we have followed the suggestion on here about large frozen water bottles and the fan. The tank manages to stay just under 20 and a little over some days.
She started to not eat about 9 days ago... we got the tank water tested at the local aquarium and the ammonia was too high. So we have been doing daily 20% water changes and vaccummed the sand thoroughly. We had the water tested today and they said the nitrates we slightly high (sorry didn't get a measurement) and to keep up what we were doing and check in a few more days.
However, we had thought that Nesty was constipated due to not eating and the black lump that she was developing was a bowel issue that would resolve itself once she started to eat again and flush her bowel out. She usually eats frozen turtle food an the occasional freeze dried tubifex worms. We purchased some ox heart today to tempt her with to no avail.
But we took a picture of it just in case to the aquarium and they think it is a tumour - they hadn't seen it before.
So I wanted to post it here with the wealth of experience on the board and see if we could get some feedback from you all about it.
Has anyone seen this before and any suggestions? Please bear in mind that she is looking really skinny at the moment
Much thanks,
Marianna
We have had Nesty for almost a year and she ( who we thought was a he hence the name Ernesto ) has always been a solid eater and very chipper. Our 5 year old daughter 'plays' with Nesty lots from the outside of the tank.. reading books to her, setting up a fairy garden outside the tank - and usually she follows our daughter around and seems very interested in our daughter's activities.
Since we moved three weeks ago we had some problems with heat (we live in Brisbane Australia) but we have followed the suggestion on here about large frozen water bottles and the fan. The tank manages to stay just under 20 and a little over some days.
She started to not eat about 9 days ago... we got the tank water tested at the local aquarium and the ammonia was too high. So we have been doing daily 20% water changes and vaccummed the sand thoroughly. We had the water tested today and they said the nitrates we slightly high (sorry didn't get a measurement) and to keep up what we were doing and check in a few more days.
However, we had thought that Nesty was constipated due to not eating and the black lump that she was developing was a bowel issue that would resolve itself once she started to eat again and flush her bowel out. She usually eats frozen turtle food an the occasional freeze dried tubifex worms. We purchased some ox heart today to tempt her with to no avail.
But we took a picture of it just in case to the aquarium and they think it is a tumour - they hadn't seen it before.
So I wanted to post it here with the wealth of experience on the board and see if we could get some feedback from you all about it.
Has anyone seen this before and any suggestions? Please bear in mind that she is looking really skinny at the moment
Much thanks,
Marianna