not eating

Hi folks, Last spring, Clyde went through a period where he was extremely active, digging and running around his enclosure all day, yet stopped eating. Eventually he had watery eyes on and off and so the vet suspected respiratory infection and he was on antibiotics for a bit, and eventually...

Hello my leopard tortoise has not been eating ( that I know of) and hasn’t really been moving around. He also sleeps most of the day. He is about a year old when I last weighed him his was 228g. I feed him romaine collard and dandelion leaves with Timothy hay mixed in and also have grass and...

Hello I need help about my around a month old baby Sulcata. I'll explain about the symptom, timeline, what I think is the cause, and his habitat, also some photos and video, hopefully it's enough information for you guys to understand the situation more. First the symptom with timeline: 1. It...

Hi all, so I posted a bit ago about my tort not eating after I received him (here's the original thread), and now it's been a month since he got here and he's yet to take a bite, and I'm starting to get really concerned. He spends most of his days just chilling, but he does move around a bit...

Hi, We rehomed a Horsfield tortoise in October 2024, was told he is about 11 months but personally I think he is about 2-3 years. He currently weighs 185g, bottom of shell is 9x8cm and depth of 6cm. All was good until about 2-4 weeks ago when he stopped eating, digging down and sleeping loads...

Hi again guys! I posted in here a few weeks ago when we first brought home our Russian tort (Myasa), but I'm still worried about the fact that he has not eaten anything. I tried to compile a list of all the questions I've been asked about him to see if someone can help me troubleshoot and...

Hi all! I adopted my first Russian tortoise last Monday (1/20) from a coworker's sibling. This guy had been living in a 30 gallon, glass fish tank with a basking light and a UV light, no hides, a water bowl, and was being fed daily butter lettuce. For two years. No supplements. When we went to...

I got a leopard tortoise for about a month. It is 3 months old. For the last week, it has refused to eat any pellets and only ate the veggies. It stopped eating the vegetables for the last 2 days as well. It’s poop has also been very runny and loose. Its main diet is mazuri, mulberry leaves, and...

Hello Im new to the tortoise forums! I have a sister pair of sulcata tortoises I've had since hatchlings since 2011-2012 and have loved since I was a little kid. One is 15 inches other around 9. The larger female, named George, I noticed past 2 days may be sick or just no appetite. She seemed...

Hi all! Our turtle, Pebbles (Hermann Tortoise), has not been pooping or urinating or eating. A bit over a week ago (29 or 30/05) we noticed her breathing started to sound like wheezing sometimes and at one point there were bubbles. Suspecting a respiratory infection we took her to a vet...

Hi just looking for some reassurance I brought home a new baby russian nearly 2 weeks ago and she still hasn't eaten she comes out in the morning to bask walks around for abit then goes back to bed for most of the day and night her diet is romain lettuce and a mix of dark multi leaf lettuce red...

Hi! It's my first time writing on this forum. I got a Hermanns tortoise yesterday and didn't even know I was getting it, so I couldn't prepare properly. This is what I managed to do with things I already had in my house. The tortoise isn't that old yet, it's about 7cm long. How could I improve...

My Russian tortoise is about 4 years old (guessing because I got her as a ‘yearling’ 3 years ago). In the last couple of weeks she’s been in her hide most of the day and she only gets out if I grab her and place her in front of food. She eats a little bit and eventually makes her way to the...

I am new to reptiles, and I recently purchased a leopard tortoise from a breeder, and it seems decently active and healthy. However, it isn't eating the greens and hibiscus that I set out for it. It's been three days, is this normal? Could it be that it doesn't like the food that I put out?

Hi I have a baby sulcata that I got about a month ago so she’s around 2-3ish months old. As soon as I got her she was already squeaking but with some soaking and consistent misting the squeak has mostly gone away. These past few weeks she’s been eating less and less except for an occasional...

I have a 5-10 year old female Russian tortoise named Sprinkles. I got Sprinkles in mid June. Up until a few weeks ago she had a great appetite, eating most of the food I would put in her 8 inch terracotta dish, a very large handful. She eats mixed leafy greens and sometimes she gets radicchio as...

Hi everyone! So we just got an African Side Neck Turtle a week ago. We have tried every kind of food under the sun. We even went to pet smart and asked them what diet they feed their turtles. We had the water at 78 (heater). The basking area between 85 and 90. We have a hiding area for him etc...

My Russian tortoise has stopped eating and she is dragging her back legs and I'm worried. She is like 15 years old. Took her to the vet. X ray and blood taken. No eggs or broken bones or kidney stones. I have her in a 40 gallon tank with a power sun light bulb (heat and UVB and UVA all in...

The vet said she has an infection and she got 2 antibiotic injections but he didn’t tell which infection she had He’s just a normal vet not reptile one and he doesn’t look very experienced with tortoises Anyway she has 2 more injections due today should I take her I’m worried about stopping the...

So, some of you may know that I recently got a new lizard, and that it has been eating really (2-4 dubias a day, 4-6 mealworms) well up until recently, where it just stopped eating, barely eating 1 mealworm a day. We did call multiple vets, all of them are full and one still needs to get back to...