Hi Edita - how is Kreso now?
I don't know what light you were using, but they do need light with UV in it as well as enough heat. So if you are using a heater he would need a UV striplight as well.
Mostly it doesn't cause eye problmes with a combined UV heatlamp, if the lamp is the right distance from the tortoise.
If the peat moss is very dry then there might be some dust causing irritation. You might consider lightly spraying the surface with a little water.
hi!
for the last couple of days his eyes are not blurry at all.
wheee!! he is still not focusing as nicely as he could but I will give it a bit of time. he gained some wight.
I have fluo tube with UV specter but I will get a heater also... cause the light is a bit far from ground as it should so I thought that extra heat source would be nice
Hello everybody! Sorry for not posting the pictures yet but my exam is killing me.
Kreso i great. After I installed the heater he is more active which is normal and his eyes are better. they are a bit blurry in the morning but it seems like with humans. when he is awake for 10min it goes away. is that normal?
anyway everything else is great so I am sleeping more these last couple of days!
thanks again
Edita Wrote:hi!
for the last couple of days his eyes are not blurry at all. wheee!! he is still not focusing as nicely as he could but I will give it a bit of time. he gained some wight.
I have fluo tube with UV specter but I will get a heater also... cause the light is a bit far from ground as it should so I thought that extra heat source would be nice
I don't use them, so I don't have first hand knowledge, but I THINK that the fluro tubes DON'T put out any heat. So, yes, you do need to provide some sort of heat source besides the fluro tube light. They need to be warm in order to digest their food. If they aren't warm they won't eat.
Yvonne
I just got the heater few days ago, but as he is in my room it is quite warm anyway
Edita, I am so happy for you that kreso is doing better.
Edita Wrote:I just got the heater few days ago, but as he is in my room it is quite warm anyway
Edita: Your room is "quite warm" for you because your body temperature is 98.6 degrees. Your tortoise's body temp is only as warm as the environment he is in. If your room is 75 degrees, that is NOT warm enough for the tortoise. YOU have to be 98.6 degrees to be able to digest your food. He has to be at least 80 degrees to be able to digest his food. He needs a heater. Room temperature is not good enough.
Yvonne
hm...
he has a heater, come on. I am not stupid, and quite warm means 27C and his setup is next to room heater. I know how tortoises function, I am not 8 years old
so, to say it again, he has his own heater! and he got lots of fresh greens from my garden so we are trying to keep the alive in his setup
but the way he is going we will not have to do it for long
Edita Wrote:hm...
he has a heater, come on. I am not stupid, and quite warm means 27C and his setup is next to room heater. I know how tortoises function, I am not 8 years old
Sorry, Edita: I really didn't mean to imply that you were stupid. We don't know anything about the person we're emailing advice to, so have to "generalize" it. Again...I apologise.
Yvonne
I am going crazy, so please I need help. I was reading a lot about sicknesses in tortoises and I see that kreso is not really healthy but he is like in the middle of nowhere.
he is eating ( a lot, like few times per day green stuff, he gets like a bit of tomato and I started giving him vitamins today cause it is 3 weeks since he got the shoot) his digestion is great, like regular and stuff. he is drinking water and bathing once per day at least. he is sunbathing and he is spending most of the time on the part with a heater. on completely the opposite side of his setup it is 27C and right above the heater it is 29 (heater is covered with alu folium and ground on top of it). he is focusing really good and I didn't see him catching "air" when he wants to eat for some time now. but... he is sneezing a bit and his eyes are a bit blurry part of the day. and also his skin is pealing and I know that is a sign of lack of proteins. he got a bit of egg today. unfortunately if you don't give me the latin name of those plants that are rich in protein I can't find them cause in english they are not familiar.
all in all I would say he is having some respiratory infection but I don't know what more I can do
window is closed most of the time so he is not in the wind. I think he has everything but I don't know if I should relax and give him time... or what. I wish I could do something. I heard that if he starts to make sounds that is a sign of pneumonia but he is quite and I am so happy cause of that.
I should say that I am really out of my mind cause it has been 3 weeks since I understood he is sick and now we are going downhill again and his conditions are only better. he gained weight and.... well I will not repeat myself.
so what should I look for like a sign? is there something more I could do??
thank you!
hello!
after my talk with the vet kreso seems to be doing fine. his eyes are great. nose is also ok and he didn't sneeze not once
but I know now why do tortoises sneeze so if yours sneeze and it is not sick it is ok
thanks everybody
Hi Edita, I'm so glad you put that post on there yesterday because I was really fearing the worst for Kreso after your last message.
Thats great Kreso is feeling well.
Thats Great that Kreso is doing well. Keep up the good work. And hopefully worry less, now that you know.
