Thank you to you both. I've purchased that temperature probe and checked. Her shell temperature varies between 20 and 38... but she seems to love the heat... since knowing the cause and turning off the heat lamp (and using the UV lamp only) the hard bits have stopped developing. Thank you again 💓 💖
Yes yes yes ur a genius! She's been loving the new heat lamp I've given. Silly Billy! OK and it's a keratin issue so basically it's a bit like brittle bones and eczema in humans... maybe she needs less heat, moisturiser, oil and some biotin. 😅 but defo less heat I'll definitely do that/start...
Omg yes that would make sense. They're hard and I think she's sensitive to those bits. I've only just realised with the zoom on these photos how severely dry and flaky her smell is. So is this metabolic bone disease?
Is there really nothing much I can do?
Hello,
Please could I get some help. She came to me about 8 months ago with one of the 3 white deposits around one of her carapace rings and over the last month she's rapidly developed two more... she also seems to be shedding more. Does anyone here know what it could be?
I saw a roundworm come out of one of my tortoises!
So I gave her medicine for 3 days (at the correct dose) but only 4 adult worms came out... (I bathed her daily, too).
I have isolated her from the other two who are very healthy but should I de-worm them too? (poor babies).
I am keeping them...
I saw a roundworm come out of one of my tortoises!
So I gave her medicine for 3 days (at the correct dose) but only 4 adult worms came out... (I bathed her daily, too).
I have isolated her from the other two who are very healthy but should I de-worm them too? (poor babies).
I am keeping them...