health

I bought a Russian tort a few days ago. The tort is a bit more then 2 weeks old. I have been having humidity problems in my enclosure and I am wondering how to fix them. My enclosure is a 15 gallon tank. My humidity levels are about 30 in the morning, hover around 40 in the afternoon and jump to...

Hello! I am a new tort owner and I got him yesterday. Can you let me know if this is normal? - not eating - mouth looks black and stained - can’t really see his nose holes - eyes: one is slightly bigger than other? - not really active I’m not sure if it’s because he’s sick or he is not...

Hello, I am extremely worried while typing this. The past few days my 9month old sulcata tortoise has been extremely lethargic when she is usually very active and eating twice a day. I have only been able to get her to take a few bites of pure pumpkin but nothing more each day. Basking temps are...

Hello all, I am very new to this tortoise owning thing. I have had my little buddy for two weeks. And he was doing well until about 3 days ago. In this time he has stopped eating, drinking and has just been sleeping. I have checked the temperature constantly being sure he is warm enough, I keep...

I was weighing my fairly new hatchling today and noticed weird "lines" on the bottom of his shell. He's acting totally normal and his shell is not soft anywhere. Is this the beginning of shell rot or something else?

My eastern hermann’s tortoise is still a hatchling. He’s under 30g, 5.1cm in SCL, and eats and poops like a champion. I recently (2 days ago) noticed he’s like peeling a little bit. A bit weird, because it’s not like white dry or flaky as I see from other posts. Just like bits of his head is...

Please let me know if you see something wrong or odd and give me ideas on what to do. I’m trying to do better for her and I would greatly appreciate it. Thankyou!

Hello, yesterday I fed my tortoise a bit of avocado and today she was like normal but had a diarrhea so I searched and found out avocados are toxic for them. She is lively like before I am just scared and don’t know what to do.

Hi everyone I like some advice on my baby Sulcata BBY Yolli . I got him 17 days ago from a pest store in East LA. My housemate got one too, hers seems to be a little older as it is still a baby but much bigger. I notice in the past 4 day that BBY Yolli would make squeaking noises during soaking...

Today I am 2.5 months and I am 80 grams.

Hi everyone. I purchased a baby Sulcata Tortoise that I named BBY Yolli last week from a pet store over in East LA. So far he seems to be doing great. I was a bit of a novice and didnt do my research as much as I should have but Im fully invested in providing the best care I can for my new baby...

Hello I’m new to the forum. I found these weird looking white spot on my tortoise shell yesterday. It looks painful and I’m not sure what it means. Does anyone have any advice for me as to if it’s to do with her diet or more serious?

Can anyone offer any advice as to why our tortoises beak is developing this way and if this is something we should be concerned about?

Rex belly is looking a little pink? He’s a 7 month old eastern hermanns

So for some background info, "he's" fairly young (almost 2 months old) and we're just worried about him and want him to be happy and healthy. We adopted him towards the end of August, and the day we brought him home he seemed quite inquisitive and energic and he ate all of his food...

This was Spock's plastron back in March 2020, roughly three months after I got her from a pet store. This picture was taken September 2020 just a few days ago. I am glad that she has been growing (look at that growth!), but I am not sure if her shell health has been improving or not. I give...

Hi! So I found my desert tortoise upside down in her enclosure 2 days ago over her poop, her shell and head were completely covered in it, I turned her and put her in water and cleaned her with a napkin, still, two days later I am STILL seeing poop all over her, I just put her in water and...

I have had my tortoise melon for about 8 months now and she is a Greek or Russian tortoise that is about a year to year and a half old. Until recently she has been very active but I’ve noticed that she just hides in her hide all day long and I have to take her out to eat and then she eats and...

So I've had my redfoot tortoise for 3 months and she has always been moving about her vivarium eating living her best life but she has recently stopped eating unless hand fed and just burrows all the time. The only difference in circumstances is my brother has moved out so she has nobody there...

Hello everyone and thank you for checking out my post. Yesterday I noticed a patch of what looked like skin or something peeling off under the chin/neck area of my little tort and wanted to double check it wasn’t something wrong. Thank you In advance!