Posts by Turtle Hospital

Juvenile green FP turtle “Tini” was moved recently from a tank to a quadrant in the main tidal pool (known as “Quad 2” to the[…]

Who knew there was a day that could be all about turtles??  Celebrate World Turtle Day with The Turtle Hospital and the Florida Keys Save-a-Turtle[…]

Bubble Butt and The Turtle Hospital would like to thank the students at Ellis Elementary School in Belleville, IL for their generous donation to help[…]

Gov. Scott Releases Mended Sea Turtle Off Keys « CBS Miami. Florida Governor Rick Scott recently made a trip to the Keys where he stopped at[…]

Recovering in a hospital tank can be quite boring for a sea turtle that would normally have all kinds of stimulation from their natural enviornment.[…]

Green sea turtles Mickey and Sekoi and our one resident Kemp’s Ridley, Bender, gained some weight in the past weeks, but not from overeating!  Turtle[…]

Floating under Saddle Bunch #5 Historic Bridge, our newest turtle arrived in good spirits despite being emaciated.  This subadult loggerhead’s rescue required a team effort[…]

Our two loggerhead post-hatchlings, Finn and Fisher, are living large these days.  Both turtles have moved just around the bend from the shallow hatchling tanks[…]

Four-year permanent resident O.D. is packing on the pounds this week with a newly fitted temporary weight belt.  Rehab staff member–and quite the engineer–Gunnar created[…]

Little green Hess has been through a lot–three blood transfusions, tube feeding and a lengthy car ride transfer from Sea World to The Turtle Hospital. […]

Photo by B. Heitman At just over 70 lbs, juvenile loggerhead “Doc” checked in for rehab on April 20.  Doc was found floating off Sombrero[…]

On Wednesday, 18 April, five sea turtles lined up in The Turtle Hospital’s designated “waiting area.”  All of these juvenile greens have external fibropapilloma tumors and were[…]