Darren1965
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If anyone could shed any light on what could have happened to my two torts please?
I’d had the Leopard from a youngster and although not a hibernating tort he would slow down during the dark winter months. In summer he lived mostly outside feeding on natural grasses. I found him dead on the 20th January. I was very upset and started to go over in minute detail anything I’d done or changed or should have noticed to explain his death but couldn’t pin point anything. Over the next few days I payed extra attention to any signs of illness in my remaining Herman tort. I double checked his diet hydration temperature of habitat etc. Just to be certain I had been doing everything correctly. Then 10 days after the Leopard had died I found the hermann had died overnight in his tort table. To be clear the two torts shared the same building/airspace but were housed completely separately from each other. The only point of contact for a possible contagion was me for example handling one tort then the other during their daily checks. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you how desperately upset our family is to lose two torts that had thrived for so long one after the other. If anyone has the slightest clue as to what could have happened please do comment. It’s too late to have post mortems as both torts are buried. I have disinfected everywhere and kept my other pets out of the building where the torts were housed in case of cross infection.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post. I’m so sorry it’s such a sad one x
I’d had the Leopard from a youngster and although not a hibernating tort he would slow down during the dark winter months. In summer he lived mostly outside feeding on natural grasses. I found him dead on the 20th January. I was very upset and started to go over in minute detail anything I’d done or changed or should have noticed to explain his death but couldn’t pin point anything. Over the next few days I payed extra attention to any signs of illness in my remaining Herman tort. I double checked his diet hydration temperature of habitat etc. Just to be certain I had been doing everything correctly. Then 10 days after the Leopard had died I found the hermann had died overnight in his tort table. To be clear the two torts shared the same building/airspace but were housed completely separately from each other. The only point of contact for a possible contagion was me for example handling one tort then the other during their daily checks. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you how desperately upset our family is to lose two torts that had thrived for so long one after the other. If anyone has the slightest clue as to what could have happened please do comment. It’s too late to have post mortems as both torts are buried. I have disinfected everywhere and kept my other pets out of the building where the torts were housed in case of cross infection.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post. I’m so sorry it’s such a sad one x