Thank you so much to all, Rocky is doing so much better today. We were up with him all night monitoring how he was doing and the temperature and humidity. When we did fall asleep he moved to the opposite side of his tank and is now getting some energy back and seems to be hungry and trying to...
We are going to buy a ceramic heat element tomorrow, and we will order a heat gun. Is there anything else that we can do for him tonight? We are going to get him to the vet on Monday as soon as they open...
We. leave the heat mat and bulb on at night, and turn off the other light. The heat bulb is one that had been recommenced to us at a reptile expo... I'm not sure what it is as I don't have the box anymore. It's in a 5.5" light hood, and it looks like a regular light bulb, and gives off heat and...
Okay... we will start warming it up now, its close to 90º now and we'll keep raising the warm side even more.
We do soak him about 15 minutes in warm water everyday, as we were instructed by his breeder, and that used to be the time that he seemed to get hungry, and would eat right after and...
We did take out his hides so we can see him better to keep an eye on him, but this is his enclosure. he has the heat bulb right over him and then the other bulb is the UVB.
He is in a 40 gallon tank inside the house, he has a heat bulb and mat, and a UVB bulb. We did soak him with some baby food a few times, and we can warm it up... the vet had told us no warmer than 90º because it would shock him, but we will work on warming it even more.
He usually eats romaine...
Hello,
We are new here, but are needing some help with our baby sulcata tortoise who isn't doing well. My boyfriend and I purchased a tortoise, who is named Rocky, in May of this year, and was told that he was 8 weeks old (making him 4 months old now), and he seemed to be doing fine up until...