My Tortoise won't eat but is very active. Please help

It could be that she's getting anxious with something like temperature, outside temperature change, different food or different surroundings.

Is there anything that you have changed/modified/replaced recently that could have affected her?

Okay. well.. the place that I have her in is a middle ground to what I am completely building for her. Its bigger than what she had. I have her in an old dresser that i took apart and fixed to be a temporary home until I finish putting together the tortoise table that would be her official home with correct sizes.. so its ugly looking lol

I haven't changed anything besides her home. She has been eating the same foods, the temperatures in my home has been the same. Her temperatures have been the same.. outside has been warming up enough where I can bring her outside to let her explore for an hour or so.. I sit outside with her and watch her. I don't have a backyard for her to live outside so exploring whatever I have for a front yard is the best I can do.

When this all started, it was a couple days after we had a warm day and I brought her outside for an hour. But she was eating and acting normal for those few days before this whole thing started.

I am now purchasing a CHE and temp gun to help make sure everything is warm and night and I am getting correct readings..

Today she didn't do much. She came out of hiding and went in her basking area for a bit. She didn't eat yet..

EllieMay said:

I am anxious to see your updates. We would love to see pictures of her and her new enclosure. I don’t own Russians so I am learning from you

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Here is a picture of her by the way!

The vet wasn't too successful. She was too afraid and guarded herself big time with her legs so.. waste of time. They did give me an email to send video of her moving around and pictures of her face to see if she is okay. And then we are going to try and do bloodwork if her poop didn't show anything since it was old poo.. still no eating and has been sleeping more.

So vet called back, my little tortoise has parasites so..Wednesday i am bringing her in to get a shot.

Was there any discussion of an X-ray? That would show eggs and also would show a stone or if she swallowed a foreign object.

We did not do an xray. We just did a test on her poop

I'd be interested in what other forum members think about two things. Is your vet a "herp vet", specializing in reptiles? (Hard to find!) If not... I might ask for a copy of the parasite report. Then I would post it here or google to find parasite levels that are dangerous for a tort. Because pretty much all torts have parasites, and yours being a Petco Russian -- definitely would expect parasites. But a certain parasite burden is expected in torts, and you don't want to treat them unless it's at the danger level.

The other thing (again, I'd like opinions from the long-term forum members), I would x-ray before I'd do bloodwork. Blood is hard to draw, especially from the smaller species. An x-ray is non-invasive and not real stressful. Several reasons for not eating would be revealed in an x-ray. After those results, then bloodwork.

Your tortoise is a cutie and I think you are quite a good keeper. I hope this all works out for you and your tort.

I hope so too.. I'm the one that decided for her to have a shot of medication because she refuses to eat anything so I'd just struggle to orally give her medicine.

There is only 2 vets that specialize in reptiles around my area and the one I was going to go to first is on vacation for a few weeks so.. I am trying out this second vet.

I did ask about doing an xray but they said it's pretty expensive to do so and they want to try and keep the price of everything low..and if there is no proper results, they move up to more expensive tests like the xray.

I am putting all my trust into this vet so i hope he will make everything work out comfortably.

By the way, I dont know if it makes a difference, but she has intestinal parasites

I have a little bit of good news! She did take a few bites of food today!