Hello All,
I wanted to take a moment to put out a warning to fellow reptile folks about doing business with Deer Fern Farms and Douglas Dix. I purchased two pancake tortoises from him back in January at a reptile expo in Portland. While I should have been more wary of purchasing at an expo my...
John Wayne is gone. He made it through the night but passed at some point between 9am and 12 when I took a nap. It hurts so bad right now and I am trying to decide if we should send him out for a necropsy because they shared the same air space as our sulcatas but not the same enclosure (in our...
Sorry I have been MIA for the past little while. We had to put our ferret to sleep a week ago today and then on the 19th Maple our little pancake girl passed away. She was alive when I got home, I moved both of them out of their enclosure to disinfect it since we just finished a second round of...
Hi all here to give an update on the cakers. After the metronidazole they took a down turn and a few days later at the vet we found worms in their stool. So we have panacured them now on top of the metronidazole and baytril. We took blood and took a swab of maples shell to culture. The culture...
Thanks for the quick reply and sending of good thoughts! I will keep everyone posted one how they are doing...It would be nice if the rain would go away so I could get them outside. Go figure its been beautifully warm and sunny until they took a down turn in health afterwhich we got one nice day...
Thank you so much for the tip!! I think we were on the same wave length with nail care tools! I have been using the metal bit from a set of nail clippers that you use to clean under nails. I broke it off and added tape at the sharp end were we hold it (the tape also makes that end easier to hold...
Ok! I wrote down everything I've been doing husbandry wise and took it in. The vet said it looked good but thought there were things that have been festering since before we got her. Maple has a respiratory infection with some fluid in her lungs. Both her and John Wayne are receiving baytril...
Got them in Feb from a reptile expo in Portland. Bought a MVB there too because it was a good deal (now hoping it was a fresh one.. exoterra like I use on the rest of my herps). There has been a cuttlefish bone in with them but I havent seen them use it but I also wasnt supplementing with...
Freaking out ALOT. Brought Maple in from outside and noticed the bottom of her plastron was flakey. And then I notice part was comming up. Its a very thin part but it doesn't look good at all and it is a friday evening and I only have fridays and saturdays off at work. I havent messed with the...
Ok so I have a couple more pictures of Maple. I had her outside today and when I picked her up I freaked out a bit. The bottom of her plastron is flakey and part is comming up. I have two pictures (I only manipulated the plastron for the picture I am too scared to mess with it again). The flakey...
Hello again! Glad you got to see the pictures of the baby cakes! Do you think that will be enough to correct things given all the information? I am a drama queen when it comes to our critters so I jump to crisis mode quick and have to bring myself back in lol. Do you currently have pancakes too...
She does eat well. Both are wild caught and they were 140g when we brought them home at the begining of feb. She is now 162g while he is still 140g. I will start misting them and maybe give them alittle humid spot by their heat source. Does it stand out as something alarming to you or just weird?
Thanks so much for the feedback. I make sure to use a plastic dish and I place that on one of the rock levels up off the ground level just to be safe. :) How did the shell discription sound to you? Does it sound normal? How about their behavior? I will attach some pictures of the inside...
Hello all,
I am newish to the pancake tortoise world (have had two sulcatas for alittle while now and am a reptile/elephant keeper). I have two and I want to know what I need to correct since personality wise and physically they seem very different from the torts I have experience with. Our...