Dead turtles in my pond

[Chew]

One turtle asked the other turtle, "What happened?"

The other turtle said, "I don't know...it happened so fast".

I got nothing.

[sir huntsalot]

I'd have a hard time believing that pesticides/herbicides were the culprit if you haven't had a die off of other aquatic species. The addition of chemicals would adversely affect O2, and the fish would be the first to go. I would also think that a pesticide or herbicide would dilute to the point where a lethal dose wouldn't be possible for reptiles unless you had a very concentrated source within your runoff basin.

Is it possible that it's a viral or bacterial infection introduced from an upstream source that your turtles don't have a natural immunity to? Or possibly a new parasite or fungus? All of these things can cause die-offs within small communities.

[sir huntsalot]

http://www.gctts.org/node/93

[Josh7099]

I know this a a bit different but one year we had a family of otters in the rice field we had flooded during the growing season and I would walk the levees checking on the water and find turtles flipped upside down with the bottom of there throat bit/cut. The turtles weren't eatin on they were just flipped over dead. I told my Paw Paw about it and he said he had seen that quite a few times before when he would see the otters move in the fields.

[jetlag887]

That is strange..if you find out what happened let us know, so I can do it to my ponds.

[highspeed]

Shredder and his foot clan

[.243 WSSM]

Shredder and his foot clan

Huh?

[Texaskid82]

Huh?

Teenage mutant ninja turtles

[east tx hoghunt]

Sounds like CSI autopsies are in order.