Hello all , I rescued this Russian tortoise from Craigslist the other day and wanted to make sure this is shell rot . if so i have the provodine, and the
Antifungal cream to start treatment , ....he/she was living in a 40 Gallon fish aquarium , that only had soaking wet coco fiber as...
Hello all ive been gone a while but now im back . i was curious what the sex of my new russian tortoise was . I bought him/her 3 days ago off craigslist and i was told it was a male but i just wanted to be sure . thanks in advance
Check out this thread regarding mazuri I have comparison ingredients and fiber content numbers
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/thread-11645.html
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yes introduce much more "Better for him" foods like grasses, and other high fiber mixed in with little by little of the stuff he is used to ... we had to do this for Hagrid as we was eating "Tortoise bites" when we first had him he would eat nothing else .. Now he is a mainly grass eater once in...
UPDATE ON HAGRID!!
well we went to the vet to day and his parasite is gone and very very minor pinworms ... the swelling is down a bit ... the vet said that he is a little "overweight" lol so i guess we have been feeding him too much ... so hagrid is very well
well at least he posted a link on care and lets everyone know he has not been taking care of him/her thats very rare on CL .... poor little thing hope someone takes good care of that little tortoise
how sad ... no were to dig, or have a natural life and look at that shell seriously did nto get enough water as a baby or possibly UVB hope they get in trouble if their the original owners
Ill join the letter writing as well just need the info
Ok I am not interested in hurting the Mazuri community ... and I did not know were else to post this...
Recently compared the Mazuri and the Zoomed Grassland tortoise food and well I found a few interesting facts.... Mazuri is sister company to Purina (a dog / cat food company) its first...