meoldchina wrote:I've no idea how the beak got like that, didn't notice it when I purchased it, or the shell or the clawssuch an expert! In China these hatchling RES are sold for under a $1 each and you choose one from a squirming mass in a dry shallow container. You can also buy much larger RES and other varieties of turtles, some I regularly see seem fully grown at 10' plus. (not to mention cats, dogs, hens, ducks, birds, rabbits, hamsters, snakes......... mostly kept in poor conditions of varying degrees)
Good news is after around 1 month of treatment the shell seems to be responding. Still has only around 4 claws though, not that that is life threatening.
The wood? Not sure, just some sort of hard wood bog wood. They sell it at the aquarium store quite cheap. But I had to cut it to size (I used it to support the basking areas) and it is as hard as bricks!!
meoldchina
I remember when I was at China, there was a old lady dragging a giant bag with lots of baby ducks inside.
