How to prevent fungus in my turtle tank?

my turtle keeps catching this fungus, how do i kill it and keep it away once and for all!How to prevent fungus in my turtle tank?
if you had a good book on how to care for your turtles, you could find out in detail how to get rid of it and (more importantly) why you have it to begin with.





it will always come back if you do not keep your turtles correctly.





-you need a good efficient filter. an over sized canister filter is best for turtles due to heavy waste load


-change 40% water every week ***dirty water is the main cause of your problem***


-feed good quality food. i prefer mazuri brand. it is arguably the most nutritionally complete.


-temperature;


air temperature = mid 70's - 80's


basking temperature = high 80's to low 90's


water temperature = 72 to 76 degrees for sub-adults and adults, 78 to 80 degrees for hatchlings and smaller juveniles.


-full spectrum lighting for proper metabolism of vitamins


-basking site where the turtle can COMPLETELY dry off. ***this is another key part to your problem***





buy a book, you will have a much better understanding of why you need to do what it says, and not what is easy for you.





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http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Care/ca鈥?/a>How to prevent fungus in my turtle tank?
clean the tank out real good with just water.





Fill it up with water...low boil the gravel for a couple hrs...


then Set up your tank


****BUT make sure the water never goes below 76degrees. No more than 79/80.


This is thee most importan and clean filtered water. If it means getting 2 filters. Do it, they aren't that expensive. When my gals were in a tank I had 2 filters. In all my fish rtanks I still have two filters. just keeps the water cleaner.


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Healthy turtles need protein from the fish meat and calcium from the fishes bones. Drop 20 or so feeder guppies, goldfish or minnows in the tank and watch them disappear in a few days! When I got these two 36 yrs ago all we had in back then were goldfish to feed , so after 36 yrs and still going strong. They can eat goldfish!


This way when they swim for their dinner they get exercise also! TOSS in a bird cuttle bone in the water for calcium that will promote better shell growth, it will dissolve real slow and if they eat it that鈥檚 fine!!


They can have garden worms, meal worms, snails, crickets, flies, crayfish small frogs, slugs, tadpoles dragon flies and anything that moves, but only as a treat.


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.


They love grapes and strawberries and squash..


Did you know that they need to bask under a reptile light UVA/UVB for up to 8 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.


These turtles in captivity do not hibernate their eating may slow down some but they will not hibernate.





*** If you have any other fish or snails in your tank..they will be eaten. The only thing you keep with these are the ones they will eat..