Recent content by GreenFire719

***reptilinks lol not reptilians

Thank you, she’s such a sweetheart! I’m not worried too much about her diet since she’s healthy and happy but here’s what I feed: 1 1/2 tablespoons of zoo med canned box turtle food, 1/2 tablespoon of freezed dried veggies and fruit (I think it’s called hedgie veggies), a couple of mazuri...

Hey all, I returned to the forum after a long hiatus (school and the like took forever lol). In an effort to get back into the forum, I wanted to ask about how much your turtle eats on average in a day. Io is probably in her 20’s at this point and she eats ever other day, but when she does eat...

So after going to the vet, they gave him a vitamin shot and that seemed to stimulate his appetite, cause now he’s back to eating a normal amount again. Thank you guys for the help!

This is the first time Io, my eastern box turtle, has laid eggs with me. Should I incubate these eggs? I took them out very carefully, making sure not to turn them. I’m gonna rebury them for now.

After STILL not eating, brought him back to the vet to get his X-ray done to look for blockages. Nothing showed up on his X-ray and he even pooped on the vet as a bonus lol. Here’s his X-ray, nothing significant shown beyond that white splotch which the vet said he was not concerned about (said...

He was eating these fruit flavored pellets before I got him, but easily went to collards after I got him. I’ve had him for about 2 years now and never had this problem with him. He was always so easy to feed and ate readily. His staples are collard, turnip, chicory, or dandelion leaves topped...

Sorry, have not been getting any notifications for this thread. Here’s his enclosure, he made a big mess of it lol. I use an infrared heat gun to check the temps from time to time. Zonder is definitely a boy, he flashes me when he excretes waste. He has not been around other tortoises. I do not...

Hey guys, my Russian tortoise Zonder has been on a food strike for almost 3 months now, only eating little bites of food here and there. I took him to the exotic vet twice now and they can’t find anything wrong with him (fecal clean, clear lungs, very active). He’s in a 6’ by 2’ enclosure with a...

That’s the list I was looking for actually. Thank you!

We take our dogs to Noah’s Ark actually. I’m not able to go too far from Charlotte right now with him.

Hey guys, looking to take my Russian Tortoise to the vet in Charlotte. Any recommendations? Please let me know!

This is what I told her to trim to. Does that seem alright? I’m basing it off the natural curve that box turtles typically have in their beak. For comparison, here’s io’s beak (which I need to trim soon):

So she should be worried about the hole in the beak then right? I just want to reassure her it’s okay to cut her beak.

Hey guys, need some advice for a friend’s box turtle. She has a super thick top beak that gives her a duck-like appearance. It desperately needs trimmed but it is super thick and has a small hole in the middle that makes her weary about trimming it more. Here’s the hole in her beak: The vet is...