Eating is ok ? Wouldn't it be stressful to his digestive system ? I don't want risking him vomiting again, for fear of aspiration. Yet, I don't know if the soaking alone was enough for rehydration.
Hello everyone,
I’m posting for advice after a suspected heat stroke incident with my Greek tortoise today.
While I was at work, my sister was sunbathing him on the balcony as usual. There was access to shade, but the sun may have been stronger than expected. She called me saying he began...
I really hope so 🙏
Thank you for your help.
The other tortoise had shell injuries that were already healed when I adopted him. I just want to know how to care for the damaged area, since some dirt tends to collect there, and I want to clean it without causing pain or risking infection.
I'll...
No, we haven't dropped him.
I assumed the other tortoise may have caused the injury. They try to climb their winter enclosure a lot, and sometimes one or the other ends up standing on his hind legs, with his front legs supported on the wall. He slips often (the fall itself may cause the injury...
Yes, he has a good appetite and can eat independently, though with some difficulty. He tries to use his injured front leg to support the food, but the movement is limited to a vibrating motion at the shoulder joint, with no use of the elbow and no real range of motion. I'm concerned that if it's...
He was always the more active tortoise, so seeing him shuffling around is heartbreaking....I will try giving each tort a separate enclosure, hope I wouldn't get kicked out of home 😆😆
Oral
There is some white on both the carapace and plastron. I thought it's from the cardboard used as a substrate, but he took a bath today, the white still there- is that a fungus? He does have signs of old healed shell rot scars.
Even if it's just a typo, or a bad labeling, is the calcium phosphorus ratio acceptable? Aren't the phosphorus too high in comparison to calcium?
And- is giving vitamin B complex once daily for a week at a dose of half a milliliter ok ?
I hope so🙏
She’s a good vet, but her experience is mostly with cats and dogs, which require different X-ray settings than tortoises. Here he is.
The leg tucked closer to his shell.
I had never seen such a high-dose preparation intended for human use, so I reached out to the manufacturer for clarification. They confirmed that it contains 120 million international units per 150 mL. You are totally right, though, it doesn't make sense. But I think I should find a more...
The vet prescribed half a milliliter of this supplement daily for a week. Half a milliliter would contain 400,000 IU of vitamin D3—unless the label has a typo, which the vet denied.