alejzp
Member
Hello all, I know this topic has been discussed several times but I wanted to give it a try and put some pictures for you owners with more experience to help me. I have had a sulcata tortoise for around 1 and half years already, she got here like in her first 6 months (I don't have her exact birth date), she lives in an indoor enclosure as I was told she should at least for the first 2 years of her life to control humidity and heat. She eats well and normally poops either once a day or every other day... lately she has taken even 3 days to poop but at the end she does it... I feed her with what I have found I should feed her with in this forum and with the help of a herpetologist friend. She normally eats grass or hay, Chinese cabbage (which she loves), escarole lettuce, romain lettuce, pumpkin, she loves radish greens (leaves) and I was also giving her some arugula lettuce (but then I was told they have many oxalates) and once in a while chard. She also gets sometimes dandalions and other weeds when I take her to my back yard and I provide also once in a while opuntia (paddle cactus or pear cactus)... I also sprinkle twice a week calcium.
I soak her every single day in lukewarm water... However last week after she pooped I found these four stones in the container where I soak her (I will provide pictures, one has my finger on it so that you could measure the size) they were some kind of greyish and white and hard as a real rock... then today she pooped one stone again...
With what I am providing as food do any of you think any of those foods could be provoking this problem? I was also told that maybe is our water (I live in Costa rica) which could be rich in minerals, however our water has always been said to be very potable...
Any help would be appreciated.
I soak her every single day in lukewarm water... However last week after she pooped I found these four stones in the container where I soak her (I will provide pictures, one has my finger on it so that you could measure the size) they were some kind of greyish and white and hard as a real rock... then today she pooped one stone again...
With what I am providing as food do any of you think any of those foods could be provoking this problem? I was also told that maybe is our water (I live in Costa rica) which could be rich in minerals, however our water has always been said to be very potable...
Any help would be appreciated.