Just to update you guys: She's home. She seems betterish. Still lethargic, but she opened her eyes and we just got some spring mix in her (with calcium supplement). It's nice to see her eating. Gave her a long soak too- but didn't see her drink anything.
Should we increase the temperature and...
Who knows? Apparently not. Like I said- she was soaked daily and she almost always pooped in her water so I know she had no trouble getting into that shallow dish (and it was always cleaned out ASAP).
The vet administered some fluids and she's staying st the vet. We are prepared for her not...
Sigh... Well this is depressing. So much conflicting information. We kept our tortoise in a huge custom made glass tank to keep humidity up (inside) but kept her outside a few hours a day in a kiddie pool with moist substrate with partial sun (not full sun) in 90 degree heat with hides because...
We've had ours since June. I believe she was 2-3 months old. The breeder we went to kept them in a tortoise table and she soaked them every day- so she said at least.. No reason to not believe her because the first time we visited they were all being soaked.
But our tortoise has had some...
I am so upset right now.
After a vet consultation, it appears our hatchling tortoise is failing due to her kidneys shutting down due to chronic dehydration.
I am seriously floored by this. Not only have we been soaking her every single day for 20 minutes or more, we also keep her...
This is probably a really stupid question-
I bought a UV light fixture that came with 2 long UV lights. I am pretty sure that these were used to by someone to grow plants...
Do these UV lights naturally have UVB? Or do I need to buy a special reptile UV light? I recently had to replace my...
Hello!
This upcoming weekend we are moving 500 miles miles away. We have a 6 month old Sulcata and we are wondering what would be the best way to transport her for the 10-12 hour drive.
I don't want to keep her in the large glass tank in case it breaks (which happened to me years before)...
Just a little update- she looks better this morning! Yesterday she wasn't a happy camper and spent most of the day after the vet sleeping/not opening her eyes, but this morning her eyes are open and shes munching down on some cactus. Really nice relief. We haven't replaced her light yet- So let...
Okay we are back from the vet!
Well the vet ruled out respitory infection- no discharge from the nose, and he did a test where he floated her for a moment in some water, I guess to check lungs (?) and said that he wasn't worried about it being a systemic infection and that she looked like a...
I still have the bulb!
Also I decided to take her to the vet tomorrow at 9:15. Not worth the stress/pain for her, and then we'll know if its UV damage, or eye infection, etc.
Ok i removed the CF bulb on the 27th. I had read about the CF bulbs being bad but I was only thinking of the coiled around ones, not the brand I got (I specifically asked the petstore, and they said that these were fine, grrr).
So she's been without that light for 3 days. She is still...
I have this lighting set, plus a ceramic heat emitter at night to keep temperatures stable.
http://www.petmountain.com/product/reptile-heat-bulbs/11442-583982/zoo-med-zoo-med-desert-uvb-heat-lighting-kit.html
She's walking around in her outside enclosure right now (which has no lighting)...
Hi,
I'm writing because I'm not really sure if my Sulcata is suffering from an eye problem or not.
Our Sulcata is 5 months old, and over the last couple of days I've noticed that his/her eyes look a little bit crusty/gooey in the morning. She wipes her eyes with her little arms which seems...