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Post Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:00 am   My god! My turtle is missing a finger nail!

My res is missing her left hand 5th finger nail! My god! Can someone tell me what to do? It's acting notmal but I see it's missng a nail. Will it grow back? I'm pretty sure the nail was broken because the 2 were fighting for food! Ahh!! Someone please give me a quick answer will it grow back and what I should do!
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Post Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:30 am   

Nothing......Calm down
if there is no blood then the turtle just broke a nail.It will grow back just like it would in any other being that has nails/claws.
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Post Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:08 am   

The nails will grow back unless the nail bed not be eaten or injured..
*Kiki & Riri ~ 2 Female RES 5' - I lost Riri
* 2 Yellow Bellied Slider - One left
* 1 Chinese Golden Thread Turtle - Lost
*Yellow ~ Female Malayan Box Turtle
*Macho Kitty ~ 12 years male DSH Cat - RIP Feb 2012
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Post Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:29 pm   

Yes it will grow back.. It's not that big of a deal. My turtles used to fight and Smee lost 3 of his nails. They've all grown back except they're all crooked. Pongo even bit of the whole nail and Smee's "finger" was red and kinda bloody. So it's cool. There's a picture on my other post about Shell rot in this same topic area. So yeah. relax.
Ahoy, Crew line up:
1 RES- Captain Pongo Pockets
1 Map turtle: Smee - Second in Command
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