It's not an edema. Tortoise is not swelling, but "blowing" little by little from the urine and food concentration. This all is pushing lungs and so on. There are no obstruction or some damage on bladder. It just can blow, because it's streching by itself and is being pushed by intestines because...
Tom, thanks for helping. I'll try to run through your answer with my remarks:
Ok, so as i said before, i give him food, but now only each third day, because he is getting little by little "puffed". It's mostly because of urine which is not going out properly and as i soak him, and feed him -...
When i get food from outside (spring/summer/winter) - i'm feeding him dandelions, clovers, plantains, hawkbits, hawk's-beards, cat's ears, mouse-ear hawkweeds and some others which name i don't remember right now. When in winter from shop, i feed him rucola, escarole, lamb's lettuce, romaine...
COmtnLady, thank you for help and kind words. I'm visiting vet for already 8 years i think. It is a very long period already. His kidney disease was diagnosed long time ago for about 6 years already. I think the reason of this mostly, because all of the years till that - he was living and...
The chamber is not that closed as you've mentioned. But even if i close it quite tightly, humidity is still around 30. And again, closing it as tight, as you say - what kind of air quality tortoise will have? Ok, i'll stop giving him water and mineral oil by syringe. What about a cucumber - he...
Yes. But his stomach was emptied if not to full, but near to it - certainly, so maybe now it takes time to poop him again. But such problem he had before visiting vet too. I try to keep his terrarium and environment as much warm, as it is possible. Then again, as i said before, if i increase...
4 hours soaking it's because without it my tortoise is getting "dry". His eyes starts to look "sunken", but when i'm soaking him for so long under the lamp, he looks and feels great. 30 min. would be enough, if he is healthy. Or maybe i do something wrong, but i can't maintain needed temperature...
That's not the case, that i don't see his urine, because: i regulary change water and urine is not so clear, that i cannot see it, another thing, that he's getting puffy little by little, that's because urine and food is gathering inside him. This all also was showed by ultrasound and x-ray...
I bought a massage gun and do massage with him everyday for about 10-15 min, but somehow it isn't really helpfull. Also i put him on a washing machine, when it is on the highest revs. Thank you, COmtnLady for your support. You did answer, that any soaking isn't too much - this is what i wanted...
Yes, all that procedures i keep on doing, soak is happenning where his shell is coming together. Water is always lukewarm, as i always keep an eye of it. I would feed him every day, but the thing is that he hasn't so smooth intestine of his disease and food is gathering more quikcly than it is...
Did the vet take x-rays? Let's see what @zovick thinks.
Yes it did. The vet is best of the best. Tortoise had swallowed stone or a snail. But he has loosened it. The main question still remains, why he stops urinating?
Hello to all. I have russian tortoise already for about 33 years. For about 6 or more years he has chronic kidney disease. Since september little by little he stopped urinating and later pooping at all. At vet hospital he started to poop and urinate every second - third day, so i took him back...