the look of that turtles shell causes me to think it may have been captive for a large portion of it's life.... the abnormalities look like husbandry issues, not natural causes... what appears to be depressed scutes is something that i think happens at a real young age...... i've not seen a...
"You say you are advocating nothing, but it sure seems like you are arguing with my assertion that tortoises should be fed daily. Did I misinterpret that? Isn't the study you keep citing specifically about this?"
i'd say read her conclusion, all of that is what this paper is about..... the...
thank you
i don't consider humidity, i would have not much of an opinion on it .... feed less, no feed a correct amount...... if you feed to much feed less......recognize what a healthy tortoise or turtle looks like......
as i said above, turtles and tortoises that have evolved to eat...
it would be best for the tortoise of the world if you stayed in your lane and talked about the turtles
this is a particularily good line, i'd really like to see that explained ........ i assure you an eastern box turtle is more like a redfoot tortoise than it is an eastern softshell???? a...
if anyone actually read this paper they could correct me if i'm wrong , that diet, i believe mazuri, was used for a reason , they were fed it for 60-70days.......this study couldn't have be done without a controlled consistent diet ....... they weren't looking for nutritional problems, they were...
i am assuming you read the title of the paper and no more????? hopefully that's the case, if you read the paper and came away thinking what they were feeding had anything to do with what they were looking at, i don't know what to tell you,......... if you actually read it and come away with the...
i would not contend that.....
the only tortoises i've ever kept were redfooted tortoises and elongated tortoises which are similar to each other and i understand different than most other tortoises
the difference between tortoises and turtles is why i did not call what you see in those two...
optimal = conditions leading to the best outcome.........doubtful i'll be around to know if leaving my turtles out in my climate year around has led to the best outcome, but as it appears now , i'm guessing it has and will....... anecdotally i believe drawing down their reserves is a necessary...
wild tortoises naturally "fast" for months out of every year....... one day a week does absolutely nothing other than it'd be 52 days less of calories per year........ these are animals that have evolved to go without food, often most of the year...this evolution obviously involved...
my opinion
if it weren't optimal they wouldn't naturally be found there....... they'd be found near the equator.....
we were below freezing 2x this month, we were over 90F 2 x this month was 92F on the 19th, was 48F on the 20th...... if the climate here was not optimal for blanding's turtles...
most of the active time of testudo species is spent hiding, they are food themselves..i believe one of the papers below found the tortoises spent 70-80% of the active season hiding....... i doubt young tortoises are out in the open foraging even remotely close to an adult , and adults in the...
i was actually looking to read documentation as in published articles reviewed by other people who have studied/published similar work...........TFO is a great source of information, the best learning someone will get off this forum is in verifying what they read.....
myself personally, i'm not...
is there any documentation to these statements?
personally i believe your vet is correct, that little tortoise is suffering from mbd along with most likely some type of secondary bacterial or viral infection, if not sepsis....
it appears to me the mechanisms behind MBD are well understood...
soak them in a container of luke warm water with leaves floating in it, so they can feel secure.......... put the leaves back in their pen, they'll still use them to thermoregulate......... they are always against something, or under something, an edge or like these guys a corner........ when...