Posts in Current Patients Blog

The past couple of days have been very busy with surgeries for Juvenile Greens with Fibropapilloma tumors. Two of these turtles, Curly and Augustus, previously[…]

On Friday afternoon, Turtle Hospital was alerted of a rescue mission going on just outside of Whale Harbor Marina in Islamorada. A Coast Guard vessel[…]

The Turtle Hospital is excited to announce a public sea turtle release scheduled for Saturday, December 14th 2013 at 12:00 p.m.  Please join us on[…]

Gizmo came to us weighing in at just 79 lbs, extremely emaciated as a result of an intestinal impaction. During the first two weeks, Gizmo[…]

Early Sunday morning a man named Dennis rescued a tiny Loggerhead turtle that was found floating just outside of his house boat. The little turtle[…]

This patient of the week is Captain Z! After coming in covered in tumors a few months ago, he is now tumor free and waiting[…]

Gizmo, an 80 lb. Loggerhead came to us severely emaciated on October 20th. We found that the turtle had a bad intestinal blockage of sand[…]

This past Tuesday, Turtle Hospital staff were very busy with seven surgeries on turtles with the fibropapilloma virus.  These turtles were mainly suffering from eye[…]

Thanks to Dr. Jackie of Marathon Veterinary Hospital for helping one of juvenile Greens, ‘Moe’, by removing a large batch of his FP tumors! Moe’s[…]

Last week we received yet another fibropapilloma patient with a heavy tumor load including some eye tumors blocking his vision.  Luckily for this green sea[…]

Just as breakfast was being prepared for our patients, the stranding phone began to ring and staff learned of a turtle in trouble just off[…]

As some of you might already know, a disease called fibropapilloma (FP) virus is affecting a lot of our juvenile green sea turtles and decimating their[…]