tortoise health

I have a Hermann’s tortoise and I have had her for about a year. I have started noticing some redness on her growth lines and she has been having some runny poop recently. Her diet consists of mustard greens, turnip greens and dandelion greens mostly. I sprinkle her food with calcium once a...

Hi! My new to me spekes hingeback tortoise is having runny poop. When I first got her, I got her to the car and she immediately pooped. It was watery but was definitely a regular poop color, but had a pretty bad smell. Two days later she pooped again, it was a lot less but it was still watery...

I looked at the underside of my 7 mo a marginated tort and was curious why there’s are indentations along the tummy. Could someone please give some advice of why this might happen? Thank you!!

Hi, I got my first tortoise a few days ago. I’m new to this and I’m concerned for him so I’m looking for any help. Is his shell unhealthy? Also he is missing two nails on one of his front legs. But one of the places it is missing has grown scales over it so I don’t think it will grow back

Good morning everyone, I need help desperately. My radiata is about 30 years old. A few months back he stopped eating and became lethargic. He has been seen by multiple exotic vets and treated mainly with antibiotics, via injection and orally. A couple of weeks back, a feeding tube was...

Emergency! Born June 24th, 2020 this little girl Honu was always a sweet, active, happy baby tort. Out of the litter some liked to charge but this girl was always very sweet. Hence why I think she's a girl. Here's a ton of pictures to help describe her issue she's going through. Im fairly...

Hello!! I’m so sorry if im posting in the wrong place or wrong way, but this website is a little confusing to navigate ? My tortoise (I don’t know the exact species, but if I had to make an educated guess I would say Russian) (I also have no idea what gender he is) just got this red line that...

I have a 4 month old Sulcata. For the last 10 or so days he has not been opening his eyes. I began soaking him everyday in warm water and recently added carrot baby food and pedialyte to his baths. I also added some pedialyte to his pool. I also use eye drops everyday. He only opens his eyes...

Hello, about a month ago I took my sulcata to the vet and she prescribed her ciprofloxacin to be taken orally every other day over the course of two weeks. As my tortoise finished up her medicine, she began to go back to normal (being very active, eating and going to the bathroom regularly)...

After we moved here to Alabama my RF King was having problems adjusting, he still does and its been over 5 months already. In these 5 months he hasn't eaten properly, just a nibble of his food occasionally and he stays in the house area of his new enclosure (a shaded dark area separated from the...

Hello! Just this morning I picked up my sulcata tortoise (I am guessing she is around 7-8 months, I received her in May of this year) and inspected the underside of her shell. I was surprised to see those dark little half circles near the bottom as just a few weeks ago I checked her underside...

We have, some type of, California Desert Tortoise that has recently been injured. For some time, not sure how long, he was stuck with a lead/rope around his front arm that was left on a chair in the yard after a dog bath. Somehow the tortoise had managed to get it so tightly wrapped around his...

Today I was walking my tortoises in their outdoor enclosure when one of them ate something toxic. He ingested about an inch of young English Ivy leaf and half an inch of Creeping Buttercup stem. Pls help, I don’t know what to do.

Hello all, I'm new here so trying how this works. My name is Dolly and my tortoise is Milo, a female Indian Star. I've had Milo since almost 8 years now, she's 9 years old. Since 3-4 days she's having these bruises/bumps/abrasions on the underside of her tail. She's never had these before and...

Hi everyone! I just got a 2-month old marginated tortoise last Wednesday and named him (going with him right now but who knows haha) Houdini. This is my first time raising a tortoise so I did all the research I can beforehand. Also read Chris' care sheet on marginated tortoises and that's...

Hi! I just got my first tortoise a few weeks ago! (Rosie is her name, thinking she is a girl) She has been pretty active although kinda sleepy too, is this normal? She will hide and sleep randomly throughout the day and I want to make sure she’s doing ok! Also what I’ve read about urates, hers...

I noticed today one of my Sulcatas thats very solitary and grunoy it seems, nit as active as my other sulcata that he lives with, hes always chilling by his self digged in or sleeping, the ither is always active and moving and aware as the other isn’t buthe seems fine and healthy. He gets active...

New owner with 0 experience, but lots of good knowledge thanks to @Tom and @Yvonne G and many others! What I'm asking is opinions from experienced caretakers/breeders on how my baby looks! This was taken the moment I received him. Thanks a bunch!

Hello! For the past week Terry has been moving more slowly and seems less interested in his food. I went to feed him by hand just now and it looks like his eye might be puffy? I have a picture of his puffy eye and his normal eye for reference. Should I take him to a vet? Would a home remedy...

Hello all. I've fostered a few older sulcata's in the past for a few months at a time but hatchlings are completely new to me.. We rescued a hatchling in distress during one of the storms here recently we've been caring for this sweet little baby for about a month now. Things have seemingly...