well thank you all!! Kobe didnt have as much today. He did pee while i was holding him this morning. haha!! has anyone ever had a problem with hair in their poop? today while we were at the park, he ate grass the whole time we were there... literally... and he pooped a few times....and i notice...
we were out at the park today...and he did his normal, pee on me while i hold him. but today was a little different from what ive seen before. it was quite a bit of urate...pee following. he has a shallow water dish in his cage...i soak him every morning...i feed him mainly hay and a mixture of...
well today is the day we bury Turtle. I put him in a little tupperware bowl with some of his dirt and hay. My husband and I wrote him goodbye letters and put it in there with him. I have 2 turtle necklaces from when i was a kid. Im wearing one and one is in there with him. That way well always...
well i have sad news. Turtle passed away last night. We did everything we could to get him back to health. The vet said we were doing a good job. But the vet didnt know anything about anything. As soon as I thought he would be ok because he was eating and drinking a little everyday...he stopped...
we ordered his light. we will be getting it wednesday. right now we just have him under heat lights.but we havent noticed him eat in a while so nick had a good idea to put him in a little food container with just his greens and hay so i did just that. we did see him eating about 1 hour later. it...
yeah so pretty much, if you need any sort of advice or help, just go straight to the forum and avoid vets unless you need a prescription. haha. well thank you all for your help. he is improving. he does keep scratching at one eye more than the other, which may be causing a bit more of a problem...
well he did go to the vet today. The vet was explained what the problem was and we explained what we were doing about it and about his habitat and what not. and she said were doing a good job and to keep it up...poked at him for about 7 minutes and that was it. no medicine, no advice, no...
thank you! he did eat alot more this morning. hes been sleeping though since then. hell get up occasionally to walk around in a circle though. i wish it was warm out so i can take him outside. i hate winter. :(
here are the pictures of his eyes. these are from this morning. he is doing alot better! yesterday he could hardly open his eyes. the day before he couldnt open them at all.
yeah i know. :( but unfortunately there are only 2 herp vets that close to me. the other ones are 4 hours away. i did call the other one to get an appointment asap but they were not available until thursday. the one we usually go to wasnt available until then either. so i just stayed with the...
Bad news. We missed the appointment by 10 minutes! I guess that's what happens when you work 45 minutes away from where you need to be and need to cross through cleveland. . So we had to rechedule for thursday!! Arrrggghhh!!!!!
http://www.petsr4u.com/proddetail.asp?prod=PT2193
this is where im ordering all of mine
and theres is this one also
http://www.petmountain.com/product/reptile-incandescent-bulbs/107801/zoo-med-powersun-uv.html
the last site you can get a 100w or a 160w.
so I did my morning checkup...
i definitely dont want to go through this again. i read and read about the coil bulbs being horrible but nothing bad about the mercury vapor bulbs. in that article it even states that when they set up a mercury vapor bulb for a bearded dragon, they noticed that his activity level increased and...
well i turned off all 5 of my florescent compact lamps and tubes. :( i cant believe how dangerous they are! they need to stop selling those!. all of ours were from zoo med which is a vet recommended brand. so now were going to get 5 mercury vapor bulbs. and still take Turtle to the vet. I hope...
yeah it is one of the curly type. we were going to order the tube type asap....we need to order 4 of them though for our other reptiles. i have read that these are bad for their eyesight. :(
yeah i was reading on the sulcata station.org site that he is dehydrated :( from what i was reading it sounds pretty severe. even though i soak him alot, they can still become dehydrated. so i have to call the vet first thing tomorrow to make an appointment. i hope hell be ok :( but right now...
i was just wondering how soft a baby sulcatas plastron should be? or his shell in general....i just felt him again and his costal is also a bit soft....
thank you for your help!
-holly
hmm that is kind of what he looks like...i found this picture...http://www.redorbit.com/modules/reflib/article_images/11_fbadce37651622b0c9516a18e1be7fec.jpg
and he may very well be a desert box turtle!! thanks!
yeah thats what we had thought...but she has 4 toes...but she could be a mix. she is very timid and shy. we just got her from this girl that fed her iceberg lettuce and spent no time with her :([hr]
we knew she was sick when this girl had her...then we asked if we can take the turtle from...