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    Tortoise Choked This Morning - What to do For Future Reference?

    Hi all, My Sulcata Tortoise Littlefoot will be 1 year old this May. He's somewhere around 4-5 inches big. This morning I had quite the scare when I realized that he had a piece of his Repti-Bark substrate lodged in his mouth. He has used Repti-Bark substrate almost entirely since I have gotten...
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    Hatchling Failure Syndrome, or not enough calcium?

    Hello all, I am concerned about my five month old sulcata. He hasn’t been doing so well. He was sick when I received him three months ago. He has already completed one course of oral antibiotics. I took him to the vet again because I didn’t think his respiratory infection was ever fixed, and...
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    Sulcata Tortoise with Parasitic Worms

    I took my Sulcata hatchling to the vet today for the twice time in as many months. He had all the symptoms of an respiratory infection and the antibiotics I had been given two months ago didn't help him. Anyway, the vet decided to do a stool sample and found that he has intestinal parasites. He...
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    Problems with sick tortoise and humidity/pyramiding.

    After a lot of thought, I decided to purchase a sulcata tortoise online and have it shipped overnight to my house after I had a habitat established and ready for it. The company I purchased my sulcata from sent it in a plastic container with a lid that had holes in it, and the bowl had a cold...
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