Recent content by Orpexo

Yeah pretty much I just 'let nature take its course'. No medication, just the usual daily water soak, and as much natural sun the weather let us have. He is under UV lamps and basking spot the rest of the time, but despite him basking under the lamps he never eats when he is there. I tried...

update: koopa's condition is improving. I noted he only eats when bathing in natural sun, so I try to give him that as much as possible. (I quickly stopped the baytril treatment)

here is a file with better pictures: http://okibul.free.fr/koopa/14032014/ the plastron is hard exept for the area circled on this picture: http://okibul.free.fr/koopa/14032014/mm.JPG I am no expert but from what I see I would imagine the following: the outer plastron is like a thick layer of...

Koopa spends the winter in a herp nursery II lucky reptile. substrate in the box is dirt. I have the tort since 3 years. Injections in pectoral and pelvic mussles, but I decided to stop them. I came back very late from work so no pictures, heading straight to bed, I ll see tomorow.

Thanks everyone I read more things about baytril and it seems to be quite bad indeed. I am not sure what to do. I should maybe stop it and simply let the tortoise be as confortable as possible. I talked to my wife and she did not see the tortoise fall either. He could not have fall so hard...

Thanks for the replies. The tort did not receive any shock and was not stepped on as far as I know. Rubbing it is harder to say since i don't know what he was doing in his hibernation box, bit it is unlikely. my best guess is that the substrate in his hibernation box was too wet and that...

simply go back to the thread list from which you selected this thread, above and below the topic list, on the right you should see a green 'new topic' button

I am on the same boat. I hope your tort gets better fast. what do you feed him via the syringe?

Hi everyone, I was going to answer the other thread titled 'help please (antibiotics, now ill)', but as my post was becoming very long I tought he started looking like thread hijacking so I decided to open my own thread... my questions are kinda similar tough. Forgive my unperfect english if...

Ok thank you all :)

that's weird it works for me even if I logout or use another browser. It is pictures uploaded in a public album on this very website. The top of the page is full of errors tough, did you scroll down?

Hi everybody, I have a boettgeri who is 3 years old. She was supposed to be female, but I now beleive he will be male. His/Her tail has grown a lot this year, and he/she is developping dominant attitudes such as chasing and even mounting. I quickly made a few pictures this morning and...

after almost 3 months of hibernation, Koopa is back with us. Here's a few pictures showing how fast she recovered her appetite! OMNOMNOM... A few minutes after... Asking for more! I ended up giving her some cactus ... The queen in her castle. napping head in, legs out...

I forgot to count the price of the tortoise furniture: substrate, plants, hide, water dishes, etc..[hr] I also forgot to take into account the price of the tortoise furniture (water dish, hides, substrate, fake plants, etc..)

There are different ways of building an enclosure. I m not sure I can help, not being a red-foot specialist. But you must define what kind of enclosure you want. Firslty is it indoor or outdoor? Do you want something quite easy to build or you don't mind spending hours building the thing so it...