I wish people would finally understand this matter in my country. Trying to help them and instead they come with comments as " bathing them is too much stress, just give them a tray with water and they will do just fine" sigh. Thanks for sharing your experience by the way :)
An update:
Turns out not the other radiata was a problem but it was just the lamp. She became active again at day when the new lamp arrived, so we put the other one back and they eat, sun, drink .. the usual stuff :D
Thank you James and Tom for commenting. Im doing better now so thanks for your sympathy and condolences.
We separated them and i just ordered a new lamp. Hope we see some changes soon. She's does eat and drink, just not sunbathing. Other one must be passive aggressive because i see no biting or...
Sorry it took a while, have been sick for more than a week and also lost a friend last week. A bit more positive news, we got her checked with endoscopy (was planned a few weeks back) and it's a female (it's hard to get females in Europe). The vet who did it, learned and uses the same technique...
The vet didn't really worry about him being sick. He checked his poo under the microscope. They are the best since it is an academic vet clinic. But we decided to seperate them to see if that is the problem.
Thanks for the answers. The set up is 150x50x50cm or 59x20x20 inch, we can separate them but i observed them (after reading about it on this forum) and the other one is not climbing on him or annoying him when he eats and mostly sleeps at another place. So i thought i could be something else. On...
Hello fellow tortoise keepers!
Our name is Veerle and Maxim and we live in Belgium. We have 4 Astrochelys radiata at the moment all small.
We have been reading a lot on this forum since there is little as none information about this species in Europe and mostly Dutch fora. We changed some...