Just had another look, I have noticed now there's like red all around his shell and going underneath so I am guessing it's only the decomposing of the shell or whatever rather than the cause of death. Thanks for your replies guys, still in a state of shock today about it all. Friday the 13th...
Guys, I probably shouldn’t have done this as it upset me but I took him out of the freezer (we’re keeping him there till we can bury him) and I looked at his corpse, there’s red marks on his shell. Any idea on what could have happened?
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I have no idea but I think it may have actually been something he's eaten, can't think of anything else. He did freak out that one time he was out in the garden. My other tort has had a lot of love and attention from me today though and seems OK which is promising.
Hey guys, umm so yeah I came home earlier after speaking to my boss, was allowed to go home at 2am to check on him. My suspicions were right unfortunately, I could see him on cam motionless and wondered if he was either asleep or dead, but it was the latter.
I am absolutely distraught and feel...
Yeah I get what you're saying, but despite being kept together the enclosure is large and they hardly ever spend time together apart from when being bathed, or when they were outside that time. I do wonder about heat stroke though, it has been unusually hot round here recently with the warm...
I keep them both together yeah but they behave well with each other, both exactly the same age and from same parents. I have just this week given them only shop bought kale, which they love, I know I should vary it up and I do normally but this week has been a busy one and haven't managed to go...
Oh no no no, I hope they haven't been poisoned.
The temps the day I let them out was very hot for round here, like 30 degrees Celsius. I did purposefully put half of the area in the shade and half in the sunlight so they could choose where to roam as they please. Like I say though, he did freak...
Yeah, occasionally let them go outside. I have a big cage area for them to roam around in outside in the grass etc. The other day when I picked Morty up he reacted rather weirdly then too, like proper freaked out by something. Do we think this may be the reason? Possibly swallowed something he...
hey guys
Ok so I know the advice I will get is going to be take to a vet, i am literally going to do that tomorrow.
I am currently at work and will be overnight and I feel like the worst parent for leaving him but I’ve had to leave my tortoise at home whilst watching him on webcam.
So...
Yeah they seem fine and happy with life, it’s just odd that this vet seems to think growing big quickly is a bad thing. Whereas not growing at all in space of 6 months is supposedly good.
Thanks fo your reassurance, just like in the other thread, the advice given to my friend from the vet has made me doubt what I’m doing with my tortoises but they seem healthy and happy at the end of the day. I’ll give the Jackson Ratio a try when they’re next awake and can measure them.
Just an update for you..
My friend took this tortoise to the vet today and the vet said that he was pleased at her progress but asked for a change of light bulb and more calcium.
Now I’m sorry, but that gash that she has is not normal but seems to have been overlooked. The vet has just...
I want to bump this topic up if I can as I am now deeply concerned about my tortoises growth rate.
They are still growing and as of the 24th Feb their weights are now 65g and 62g. I just thought this is a healthy growth spurt and they’re doing fine, they are approaching 1 year old (they’re...