Man. It sucks the way this stuff can happen even when you’re doing the most to keep everything happy and healthy..... do you think these pimples are contagious to humans? And if they aren’t, is crypto?
Thank you for that, I made a vet appointment for Monday, getting a necropsy on the tortoise I euthanized and doing swabs and getting tests on the lesions of the living tortoise that’s in the poorest condition, hopefully it ends up as something more manageable than crypto. I will keep you all in...
I reached out to the breeder I got them from and told him about it and he told me not a single one of the baby’s (siblings to the ones I bought) or adults were sick, have died, or showed any kinds of similar symptoms, would that help in deciding whether or not it could be crypto?
I have 4 young sulcatas who have shared an enclosure, a year and a half old pardalis pardalis in an enclosure next to it that I make sure never gets cross contaminated, and a 6X2, 1:2 Russian enclosure, are you suggesting if it is crypto I should euthanize my entire room? Or just the sulcatas...
That’s tragic I’m very sorry to hear that, I hope that’s not the case with my torts.... I’ve been keeping the two with the lesions separate from everyone else since I noticed the spots and I haven’t seen any signs of infection in my older sulcata since removing them which thus far I’m very...
Thanks Jamie, I’ve changed the bedding daily and I’m ordering some terramycin today to put on the pimples, if that works to no avail I’ll get some betadine to try as well, thanks for the help!
I may do that very shortly, I have the two healthy ones housed together and the two with the abscesses in quarantine, they’ve been living very peacefully together. Thank you!
Hey again everyone, I just recently purchased 4 two month old 66.6% het for albino sulcatas from a seller on fauna classifieds and I’ve run into yet another issue that the internet can’t give me a clear answer towards. I received them about 2 weeks ago and put them in a closed chamber with my 9...
Update after a few months.... my sulcata is now 130 grams, eating and growing like a weed, he’s very healthy and active and no longer has the cyst like bulge on his cheek. He’s now a very healthy happy sulcata and in the bullet proof stage.
I finished his antibiotic treatment this week... he’s now hovering around the 90 gram range which is over 20 gram growth from when I first started treating him. I’m going to give it a few weeks and see if his confusion deteriorates the way it did before starting the treatment, if it does I’ll...
Hahahaha ohhhhh im sorry! I thought you meant you would sell your tort, I took your message the wrong way that’s my bad... but maybe in the future we could do that.
He’s a beautiful tortoise, thank you for reaching out with him! It’s always good to have a bigger breeding group for the future so I am interested despite the age.... How much do you think you’d sell him for?
Is it possible that the foreign body is no longer there anymore and that there isn’t as great of a need to get it removed? If something was able to slice the inside of his mouth I can’t imagine it still being lodged in there based on his behavior... he’s been eating like crazy and gaining...