Cover your finger with Vaseline, then softly touch and kinda push on that bulge. Is it soft? Hard? After gently pushing on it, does it feel like it would go back inside easily?
Has he pooped lately? What did that look like?
Hi, here's a care sheet for you to read.
In looking at the pen, Personally, if that were mine, wouldn't it be heavily planted and moist? Also too small for that tortoise?
to the OP, please don't think I am tearing your habitat apart...I am learning about this species, and just asking...
There are so many diseases or things like open mouth breathing that tortoises get, so, if all is well, eating drinking pooping etc. Stop worrying about it, just keep an eye out and be aware she might be sick, just not sick right now kinda thing.
That tortoise looks like a twin of my Mary Knobbins. I call that dance the hootchie cootchie and Mary does it quite wll with my scratching. I first discovered it with Bob when he was bigger. Actually, he did the dance because I would sit on him and he would try to throw me off...better than a...
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Shame on you twice...I sent you a pm saying some rude things about a set up road trip etc. Only I sent it to another friend and TFO member, really
Simplified, tortoises can't digest their food unless their insides are 85 degrees or more. While that tort does look kinda thin, is he any more thin than he was 2 months ago? Do you soak him at all?
Here's some reading for you. He is in a small container for an adult. Something else that aids in...