Thank you for this! I do think his enclosure is a decent size for him at the minute as he is still very small and seems to get move around it a lot and has plenty of space to do so, I am going to take him back for a check up once his antibiotics are done and I will ask the vet to check his size...
Also my partner was the one who took him into the vet and I was mistaken when I thought the ‘crack’ between the resin was new, it seems the vet was perhaps aware of the issue with growth and rightly or wrongly applied resin to the more severe cracks but left that one perhaps to allow for...
Thank you so much for your advice! Sadly I don’t think there is much I can do to have that resin removed now but I will not have it put on these new ‘cracks’ and will manage them as they are and I will try reducing feeding
That is super helpful thank you so much! He does seem to eat a lot so I could try reducing it? I have wondered if he’s just like that and it’s something that will be a recurring issue, also the cracks (for lack of a better word) under the resin were quite a bit worse than the ones shown here the...
It’s also worth noting these new cracks have just appeared today since we took him the vet just over a week ago, and although the vet said the resin should hold his shell in place and we can handle him as normal we have been trying to limit how much we do handle him and are extra extra cautious
There is absolutely no way, he lives in a viv and we don’t put him outside as we don’t have a suitable garden at the minute, my toddlers aren’t allowed to touch him and they are rarely around when we get him out and if they are we supervise at all times and there’s no way they could get into his...
Sorry just figured out how to do that! The pink stuff is what the vet put on but a new crack has appears in between and to the right of it going down/up
Hi I’m new here! I have a horse field tortoise roughly 1.5years old and he has always been healthy but recently we noticed he had some pretty severe cracks on his shell that were bleeding. We didn’t know how it could have happened as we have no other pets, he’s on his own and there is no where...