dawnypooh
New Member
Hello everyone I need some advice from experience tortoise owners. I’ve owned a male adult leopard tortoise for about four years I’ve never had any health issues in great condition no issues. About two months ago I purchased a leopard tortoise but they told me was four years old from a well-known reputable tortoise shop here in Arizona. The next day after purchasing her I noticed that her nose was wet I immediately scheduled a vet appointment . The vet believes she had a upper respiratory infection and started her on a course of antibiotics batyil. She was on two courses two weeks each of that particular anabiotic. After her not getting any better with her wet runny nose the vet suggested we run lab work which we did we did a series of bacterial study and for Mycoplasma. The results came back that she had the mycoplasma and some other bacteria. Which anabiotic’s to another one while we were waiting for the results to come back. She’s at the end of this course of anabiotic’s which was every three days I’m not sure the name but wanted to store in the freezer she’s been on it for almost 3 weeks and still has an issue with the runny nose. I’ve had her for a little over two months and she’s been on antibiotics the whole entire time except for a few days while we were trying to figure out what to do. She’s always been active she’s always eating and drinking and moving pooping all the normal things that a tortoise does except for the runny nose. I have her an open top tortoise table with the proper lighting and the temperatures are 90 under her heat lamp during the day and the room temp is about 70 to 75 at night. The vet said that those temperatures are perfect for her humidity level it’s only at 30-40 and Arizona is extremely dry and I cannot get it above 30-40 Even with missing her enclosure on a daily. Even with Misting the enclosure. I’m at a loss as to what to do at this point the vet that I’m going to is an exotic pet they only treat exotic animals so I’m seeing the correct Yvette I just wanna know if anyone out there has experienced the same issues and did they have any other treatment options. Sorry for the long post I was trying to make sure I include all the details so people don’t ask a lot of questions with background information hopefully I did a good job of that.