Posts in Current Patients Blog

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[…]

A Florida Keys native, Steve Impallomeni, has spent years enjoying the waters aboard his own boat. Steve has come into contact with many turtles while[…]

After 11 days of being dry-docked, it was time for water for Moses! Due to the severity of the fracture from a boat, the lung had[…]

The Turtle Hospital is excited to announce a public sea turtle release on Saturday, September 28th  at 10:00 AM!  Please join us on Sombrero Beach[…]

‘Moe’ recently perked up and became a very active little turtle after losing some weight! This turtle came in with a 1.1-lb. tumor attached to[…]