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I’ve got an appointment for tomorrow! Thanks for your advice!

Should I still get it looked at at the vet? I don’t want it to get infected or get worse.

My hingeback appears to have a tear/cut near his jaw. It’s also affecting how he eats. I’m going to take him to the vet as soon as I can so it doesn’t get infected but I wanted to get your opinion.

Definitely. Thank you!

Thanks for the advice! I soaked him for a while and he pooped! Cleared out now and so glad.

I gave him an extra long soak last night and thank goodness: he pooped!

My Speke’s hinge-back tort doesn’t get protein. He eats leafy greens such as collard greens, mustard greens, kale, romaine lettuce and carrots. There isn’t much info out there about Spekii hinge-backs. I don’t want to get him some food that other tortoises can eat that he can’t. Are there a...

Make sure you’re soaking him two or three times a week in warm/room temperature water. He could be constipated. Also, does he have a hide or a cave-like structure for him to crawl under? My Speke’s hinge back neeeeds And loves his hide and spends all night and some of the day in it. I think it’s...

Sorry I can’t properly help you out but I wanted to say they’re beautiful! Congrats!

Thank you!

My tortoise Mack hasn’t pooped in several days. He’s a Speke’s Hingeback. I don’t track his bowel movements (although I definitely should and will here on out), but I know he hasn’t gone in a while since I clean out his poo. Five days ago I have him a bath but he didn’t poop like he usually...

I’ve been feeding Him different Types of greens now. He eats romaine, kale, collard and another one that I’m blanking on right now. He also still has carrots and on occasion, squash. His poop has been better. Thanks For the advice!

He’s been doing a lot better. I interacted with him a lot yesterday (gave him an extra long Bath and took him out side). He has an overhead UV/heat lamp as well as the heating tablet/pad underneath the terrarium

My Speke’s hinge-back tortoise eats every morning, and I wake up every day to find him out of his hide and ready to eat. Yesterday, he wasn’t out like usual. I still put his food in his trey and I think he ate about half of it, which is unusual. Today he’s hiding again. I know low appetite can...

I have a Speke’s Hinge back Tortoise. I got him a few months ago. He poops every couple days but it smells really bad. Maybe a change in diet can stop the smell? He usually poops in his water bowl/trey because he likes to sit and soak in it. I clean out the trey immediately after every poop...

I have a Speke’s Hinge back Tortoise (I’ve only had him for a month). I’m trying to give him a wider variety of foods. I got a list of foods safe for him when I got him. Anyways, for the first few weeks his diet was mostly kale, carrots and occasionally squash or sweet potato for a treat. This...

My tortoise Mack, a Speke’s Hinge back Tortoise (who I just got a week ago), has a terrarium with a thermometer (which I’m actually replacing with a better one thanks to Tortoise Forum), a water bowl which I may also replace, a food bowl and a hide. It also has a heating pad and UV/heat lamp for...

I don’t have anything for the humidity and I know I should but I don’t even know where to begin with that.

I’m feeding him kale, carrots (squash once a week) and calcium powder which he hasn’t been eating and it’s building up in his food bowl. I don’t have a humidity monitor but I do have a UV and heat light as well as a heating pad for a basking area. In the basking area it’s usually 84 degrees and...

Yes. It’s been building up for a week now. I mix it in/on his food or I put it on the side. Thank you for the information