I appreciate the advice, I genuinely do and we'll work on getting an outdoor set up like this up soon. It's hard for me not to get defensive when hearing legitimate criticism of how we've been trying to care for him and for me to get defensive of my girlfriend who I know cares more about that...
We've thought about his smell being affected but everything we had read about how that affects appetite is that it can affect their ability to scavenge for food but not their appetite when food is presented to them. Our whole house is kept at in the mid to high 70s but I can't give you exact...
I guess the main question we have is what's up with the asymptomatic lack of appetite and if anyone has seen something similar and what those solutions were.
I fully trust that she has good info. I am regularly admonished when I suggest fruit because she is aware that it's bad. We know the box is too small, but he is a rescue from her time living in northern Illinois and that was the only spot she could get for him until she moved down here. He is...
I don't have a picture of it but its a 5x6 PVC box with a full spectrum UVB heating light, it's only brought out during the cold months here in East Texas so it doesn't get super cold usually, more a basking spot than an enclosure I want to say. The fruit isn't a regular thing, we've just used...
The feeding tube is surgically attached by the vet, we've gone back and forth between feeding him blended up fruits and veggies and blended up Mazuri tortoise grazer pellets in some water. We've offered him cactus pads (he used to love them) grapes, carrots, cucumber, lettuce, turnip greens etc...
My girlfriend and my's 16 y/o Sulcata back during a bad freeze in 2022 got out of his heated dog house at some point during the coldest night of the freeze, it got down to 19°F, and was found by our friends who were house sitting the next morning. We don't know how long he was out but it could...