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Saturday, 3 May 2014
It was few days ago that FiOh accidentally dropped Cosmos (while they are in their tank; placed on the basin) from a height of about 75~80cm tall. Worried and concerned about the impact of the fall on our Cosmos, we bought them to visit the vet. 
Xing Yue fell over while waiting...
Cosmos being placed in a tank with water during their wait
 After explaining what happened to Doctor Chua, he brief his assistant on the x-ray procedures for our Cosmos. It's said that to take the x-ray, we will need to flip a turtle over on their back, however, Yang Guang and Yue Guang are very sensitive and would flip back immediately when being flipped over. Hence, Doctor Chua recommended to try to 'scare' the Cosmos and even demonstrated by touching their face or nose (so they would keep still for the x-ray), yet it doesnt work too. So Doctor Chua suggested to cover the Cosmos with the animal cloth while they are flipped over. After some time of waiting, it's finally our Cosmos' turn to take the X-Ray! It was another assistant assigned to take the x-ray and she had a difficult time trying to keep them still with the 'scarring them' method. 
Getting Cosmos to be placed on the X-Ray tray...
 
Cosmos left alone in the room for the X-Ray session
Getting Cosmos back to their temp holding box after the X-Ray
The reason why the 'scaring them' method doesn't work on our Cosmos is because... that's how we usually plays with them. LOL. Upon hearing this from us, the vet assistant couldn't hold back and really laugh out loud. This time FiOh went in to the x-ray room and speaks to the Cosmos, telling them to just stay still for a moment for the X-Ray. Indeed, it kind of worked, excepted that Yang Guang moved a little though. At the end of the entire session, after reviewing of the X-Ray, Doctor Chua confirms that our Cosmos are all fine and unhurt. That's truly a great relief for us!! For those of you who are/might be interested, below are the x-rays: 
Yue Guang
Xing Yue
Yang Guang
After this incident, we have learnt to be even more careful when handling and taking care of our Cosmos. P.S: Video of the X-Ray session will be posted up to the Cosmos Clique's YouTube separately at a later date. =) Labels: Cosmos, Turtle, Vet Visit 0 comment[s] | back to top |
星烁 Xing Yue (Starry Moon) the Malayan Box Turtle
陽光 Yang Guang (Sunlight) the Red-Eared Slider
月光 Yue Guang (Moonlight) the Red-Eared Slider
流星 Liu Xing (Meteor) the Malayan Box Turtle
銀河 Yin He (Galaxy) the Malayan Box Turtle
晨光 Chen Guang (Dayligh) the Red-Eared Slider
暮光 Mu Guang (Twilight) the Red-Eared Slider
星宇 Xing Yu (Starry Nite) the Malayan Box Turtle
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Cosmos Clique is the name for all our 5 lovely pet turtles.
We found a Malayan Box Turtle (MBT) hatchling in the neighborhood park and 'adopted' him back home on 14th Feb 2014. We named him Xing Yue (Starry Moon).
On 15th Mar 2014, we purchased 2 Red-Eared Sliders (RES) hatchling from local pet shop to keep Xing Yue accompanied. We named the two RES as Yang Guang (Sunlight) and Yue Guang (Moon Light). The three of them started bonding since then.
On 25th Dec 2014, after Christmas visiting, we rescued an abandoned adult Malayan Box Turtle (MBT) from the nearby park. We named her as Liu Xing (Meteor). She is the only Princess in the Cosmos Clique~
As Liu Xing is too big sized compared to Xing Yue and we wanted to find a buddy for him, we later manged to purchase one from a seller met online, however, it turns out that this adult MBT we got from the seller is in a very bad shape (serious health issues) and the seller 'ran away' from his guilty acts. Despite the bad health conditions, with daily TLC, we managed to get our 5th Cosmos member back to health. We named him Yin He (Galaxy).
As we treat Cosmos Clique just like our family members, we too celebrate their birthday for them. Because we do not have any actual info of their birth dates, we have decided to set their birthday as the date they joins our family.
We usually refer Xing Yue, Yang Guang and Yue Guang as 'Babies' as they became our family members when they were hatchlings. Besides feeding them their Breakfast and Dinner in their respective feeding tanks, Cosmos' typical day includes having chill-lax (walking) session within a customised barricade that we built from scratch. Within the barricade, we gave them lots of colourful rubber balls, dish of water as well as some magnetic floating platforms.
On the weekend, we would aim to catch the natural sun rays before 11:30 AM in the morning and bring Cosmos down to the patches of grass for a 30 minutes basking session (of course, within their outdoor barricade). Cosmos Clique are getting popular with the adults and kids in the neighbourhood too!