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Originally Posted by longyi
Thanks for sharing x-ray pic and wish your pnt a speedy recovery.
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Originally Posted by Homester
Bro,
Wish ur pnt a speedy recovery.
Just to check with you, Is this illness a norm for all torts/turtles/terrapin ?
Or it is more common in captivity specimens as compare to wild specimen ?
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Thanks guys. So far after a checkup by Dr Frederic Chua last Saturday, he's declared "OK" except for some signs of trauma and sunburn besides his terrible shell condition. His x-ray slides showed that everything is fine and there's no foreign objects in him.
He's definitely a PNT in the worst condition that I've come across.
The term Metabolic Bone Disease (MBD) actually covers a wide range of symptoms from upturn shell/pyramiding due to high protein to soft shell due to lack of calcium or vitamin D3 being the more common causes.
Usually the main cause of MBD is wrong diet and/or husbandry. If detected early, it can be treated and there will be little or no obvious signs. Severe cases will definitely lead to deformity.
IMHO, I would say it is definitely very unlikely to happen in the wild as the turtles have a proper diet and routine to keep themselves strong and healthy. For wild turtles, it's probably parasite or bacterial infection being the more common diseases.