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If anyone has the thread where the person had a similar problem that would be great. Any other advice for trying to treat this at home would also be great. I have found a vet now I can go to but I'm still feeling cautious due to the reasons already described.

Thank you both for the advice. I phoned the vet this morning and have been informed the reptile vet is no longer working there, so I'm going to try and give things a bit longer since things don't seem too severe. Before I introduced the overnight heat he would have symptoms first thing in the...

Just a correction: I meant bubbles are coming out of his nose, not mouth. I also nebulised him again after this and then he's been fine again since.

Any advice on whether I can feasibly treat this at home - and how - would be much appreciated.

Thanks for your replies. He's 22, a marginated Mediterranean tortoise. Basking temp is between 34 and 37 in the day and at night around 34 (measured before I go to bed, so I'm not sure in the night but he has a ceramic bulb on a thermostat but it's hard to say what the basking temp is as it's...

My tortoise has had an RI for a few weeks. I've been reluctant to take him to the vet since he's still been bright and eating well, but mainly because he had another RI 5 years ago where the vet prescribed Baytril and it ended up with him having kidney damage, completely off food, completely...