Yes there is a basking lamp at one end and we have a heat map with a probe underneath. I did so much research prior to buying him (or thought I had) . My mam has always wanted a tortoise and we got him as a special gift for her 60th birthday. I feel we've done something wrong and I feel dreadful.
He is eating leafy green mostly salad leaves, temperature is between 70-80 degrees with his heat lamp off. With the lamp on may up to 90 degrees.
He mostly eats mixed leaves of cress, spinach and rocket.
My mam is saying it looks as though he is constipated and his bum looks sore?
I apologise...
Hi I recently bought my mam a horsefield tortoise for her birthday. We have had him around 4 months but he is over a year old. Over the last 4 days he has barely moved or eaten. Today his legs are all shooting out as though in spasm and he is stretching his neck right up and his mouth his gaping...