Hello, I have a noob question. My sulcata tortoise suddenly have a constipation yesterday, she was pooing normally until yesterday, we found that there is like a shred of cuttlefish bone along with the poop. I always let my sulcata eat hays and grass and some cactus as well, however, a few days ago a let out a bunch of 10 cuttlefish bones in her home along with so many hay. Can anyone tell me what can I do for my sulcata tortoise?
Please help my juvenile 2yr old sulcata tortoise is constipated due to eating too many cuttlefish bone
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Soak the tortoise daily for an hour or more in warm water, and feed cactus pads.
What size sulcata? Where are you?
1 cuttle bone at a time from now on.
What size sulcata? Where are you?
1 cuttle bone at a time from now on.
My sulcata is
I live in Indonesia. Having an average weather temperature at around 26 celcius or 78.8 fahrenheit
Do I need to go to the vet to check my tortoise? and can this be healed by itself? if it can, how many days from now?
My sulcata is 32cm, female
I live in Indonesia. Having an average weather temperature at around 26 celcius or 78.8 fahrenheit
Do I need to go to the vet to check my tortoise? and can this be healed by itself? if it can, how many days from now?
At 32cm, you can't tell if it is male or female yet. They all look female until the secondary sex characteristics start showing up. In some cases you can start to see signs at around 36cm, but often not until they are closer to 46cm.
Average temperature doesn't help. It should get no lower than 27C for this tortoise at night, and the daytime ambient should be around 30C, with either an indoor basking area of 37C, or outdoor access to sunshine. The tortoise cannot remain healthy at 26C for very long.
If the tortoise is eating and walking around normally, then no vet should be needed.
You should also address the tortoise's diet. It's not normal for them to gorge on cuttlebone like that if they are getting enough calcium in the diet. What do you normally feed the tortoise? I see you said grass and hay above. What else, and how often do you feed the cactus pads?
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Are you sure you are not seeing hardened urates rather than cuttlebone pieces? They would be very similar in appearance.
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Well we usually go out to a big empty yard, there are grass and weeds growing out, for the hay we have at home so we just lay it out to his/her home. For cactus pads, we give 1 cactus pads everyday and soak her in warm water everyday as well
We're sure its shard of cuttlefish bones... We just see the vet yesterday and had a xray and we saw so many cuttlefish bone blockages
Is the tortoise eating and behaving normally? Did you see "blockages" in the x-rays, or did you see cuttlebone fragments in the GI tract?
Is the tortoise eating and behaving normally?
