Matt, that opacification is not food, it wouldn't show up on the xray because it is not radiopaque. It could however be something inside the GI tract other than food. The tort may have ingested something over time that is not digestable, like a hard substrate. It could also be a mass outside the...
You need a prescription for the injectable Baytril so I'm not sure what this online place is offering, maybe its the oral, Otic or ophthalmic solution (which obviously you wouldn't want to inject your tort with). You would want to use the smallest guage needle you can find, usually 27 or 29...
You can still base the dose on how much they weigh regardless of how small they are. Baytril is usually 5mg/kg daily. You would have to weigh the animal in grams and calculate the dose based on the strength (mg/ml) of the baytril formulation that you have.
You can try tube feeding the oral (not the injectable) medicine, but it will stress your animal even more and it will be hard to know exactly how much it actualy recieved. Soaking your tort in water with Baytril is useless :).
Robert
Thats not going to work. It will not get absorbed systemically, and will have no effect on your tortoise...aside from leaving a bitter taste in its mouth :( .
You Can give baytril, or any other drug for that matter, in the front or rear legs. It will not affect its absorption. However you give the medication it will first get absorbed into the systemic circulation, goes to the heart,which is then pumped throughout the entire body, including to the...
Don't worry, there is no threat to you developing an eye infection. Salmonella rarely, if ever, causes a conjunctivitis. It is also not carried or transmitted via urine. Salmonella will mainly give you a gastroenteritis, by what is called the oral fecal route in this case. Which means fecal...
At one point in time I used to buy Tubs of pure calcium. I would make my own vit D powder by crushing 400U Vit D tablets. I would calculate the amount I have and mix with the calcium as I thought i needed depending on the diet, activity, and season. I have since stopped doing that because it was...
You actually see pyramiding just as much in t kleinmanni. It's just that there's probably 20 or 30 sulcata's for every Kleinmanni that you see, so it seems like its more prevalent. So I wonder what causes pyramiding in Egyptians...maybe its high humidity since they are used to a dry environment...
I'm sorry, I didn't have time to answer your question earlier. I raise my animals on a rich diet of weeds, grape leaves and store bought lettuces. I don't worry about the humidity. Its usually whatever ambient humidity is in my house which is usaually around 30-40% but varies depending on the...
Thanks for the definition of legitimate... Did you or the scientific community examine the research? Did you look at the Power of the study, the confidence intervals, the P values? the methods? the data analysis ?to name a few. Just saying " it seems perfectly legit" is a joke to anyone who...
What exactly do you mean by Perfectly "legit" ?.....
Because your animals pyramided with calcium and sunshine that means nothing. How do you know how much calcium the animals where getting? did you measure it?, how much vit D3 from sunshine? was it sunny all the time? did u have them out...
I thought we can have an intelligent, conscientious discussion and present fact- my mistake. I guess it will always be anecdotal at best. I have presented you with an excact mechanism of how pyramiding based on calcuim and vit D3 works . Beacuse you have had pyramiding despite that, you...