SonyaSofi
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I'm sorry for my bad English. Please write all your thoughts. You may notice something else externally. the shell is hard. I don’t understand whether it’s perfect or not in shape
Background: I have long wanted a leopard tortoise, but I live in Ukraine and here you can only buy it in one place, which is famous for smuggling wild-caught animals.
I put this idea aside.
a month and a half ago I was passing through Bulgaria and there I found a leopard tortoise with a document confirming that it was born in captivity.
my joy knew no bounds! I bought it and brought it to my home.
I built her a terrarium, bought an Arcadia lamp 12%, arranged an excellent home based on the forums.
Then I found this forum and read about humidity and elevated temperatures. In general, I did everything right. I covered the top of the terrarium and kept the humidity at 80%. Every morning I bathe the turtle for half an hour (I already realized that I will bathe for an hour). The temperature at the warming point is 36-39, in the cold I don’t drop it below 26.
and now the turtle has been living with me for a month and a half. He eats great, I feed him dandelion leaves, plantain, clover, mulberry, and a few others when I find him.
every morning she poops when she bathes, eats and goes to warm up, then eats again, warms up, eats, warms up, and in the evening she goes to her cave.
but I have never seen salts released (urine).
I was told on a local forum that this is normal, to give her time to adapt and continue bathing.
as soon as I arrived, I noticed that she was breathing and seemed to be twitching her neck. The doctor online said that this is normal, there may be some tension inside. the doctor advised to let the turtle adapt for the first two months, and then go and get tested for parasites, etc. since the turtle is small and if you treat it, you need to give it time to get stronger in a new place.
I couldn’t stand it for two months, the turtle seemed to be in a good mood, the other day I went to the doctor.
I tested the turtle's stool for parasites - no. Today I tested it in another place, it showed an insignificant presence, the doctor said it’s not scary and there’s no point in driving them away, since there will be more harm from the medicine than from the number of eggs found in the poop; they could have gotten there on plant leaves.
They did an x-ray. showed bloating in the intestines.
backstory in backstory: The turtle seller said that the birthday is 03/10/2024. At the time of my purchase she was almost four months old. Now she is supposedly five months old.
While reading this forum I was very confused that the turtle currently weighs 56 grams. she weighed 54 grams two weeks ago, but this is not accurate, since the poop is back and forth, two grams is not enough.
Yesterday I passed the first stool test, took an x-ray, talked to the doctor, and in the evening I decided to look at the document again to see if the turtle was from the wild. and saw “date of birth 12/2023”.
I wrote to the seller, he did not answer anything. I wrote to the woman whose contacts are listed in the document. she confirmed that my seller bought them from her. that at the moment the turtle is 9 months old. the woman is shocked. she is very sorry that this happened. She says that she explained to the buyer how to care for them. From the photo, she is almost sure that the turtle is hers, since she marks them with different colors depending on who the turtles' parents are. and said that the color of the shell was also similar to her babies.
Then I found an advertisement for this seller from whom I bought. Everywhere in the photo, turtles are eating lettuce leaves.
In general, as far as I understand, the turtle ate normally for the first 4 months of its life. Then the turtle came to my seller and ate lettuce leaves for 3 months. and then she came to me and eats weeds.
the woman whose contacts are in the document did not answer me about humidity at the birth stage. but she said that in the seller’s photo the soil is a little dry and she advises keeping it moist and spraying every day at night. I hope she has the right conditions at birth
Based on the results of the x-ray, the doctor said to reduce the succulent herbs and add dry ones. outwardly the turtle is healthy and active. We cannot take blood to check the kidneys, since it is too small and would be a lot of stress for the body. there are no signs of problems other than the absence of salts in the urine. but they are barely present in the stool analysis. he is worried that there should be more of them. but for now we can’t do anything, first we need to remove the bloating in the intestines, and then maybe everything will return to normal.
So the question is: please tell me, do you have any thoughts on this matter? how to help a turtle recover? I'm thinking of ordering Mazuri and a probiotic for turtles. Do I really need to add more dry herbs? the fact is that the turtle does not want to eat them. I mixed dandelion with arcadia dry food (soaked it a little), but the turtle chose the leaves and that’s it. It seems to me that restricting her food is bad, given her weight.
lives on exo terra coconut fiber, we don't have orchid bark. nibble on the cuttlefish shell, through feeding I add arcadia calcium and arcadia vitamin clay.
The size of the enclosure is currently 43x100cm. At first I read the wrong information, where it was written that 40x60 is suitable. I plan to make a bigger one when he grows up a little
I try to take him out to the park for walks more often. happens once a week, sometimes 3 times a week, for 1-2 hours. All this time the turtle eats or goes somewhere. walks a lot
Background: I have long wanted a leopard tortoise, but I live in Ukraine and here you can only buy it in one place, which is famous for smuggling wild-caught animals.
I put this idea aside.
a month and a half ago I was passing through Bulgaria and there I found a leopard tortoise with a document confirming that it was born in captivity.
my joy knew no bounds! I bought it and brought it to my home.
I built her a terrarium, bought an Arcadia lamp 12%, arranged an excellent home based on the forums.
Then I found this forum and read about humidity and elevated temperatures. In general, I did everything right. I covered the top of the terrarium and kept the humidity at 80%. Every morning I bathe the turtle for half an hour (I already realized that I will bathe for an hour). The temperature at the warming point is 36-39, in the cold I don’t drop it below 26.
and now the turtle has been living with me for a month and a half. He eats great, I feed him dandelion leaves, plantain, clover, mulberry, and a few others when I find him.
every morning she poops when she bathes, eats and goes to warm up, then eats again, warms up, eats, warms up, and in the evening she goes to her cave.
but I have never seen salts released (urine).
I was told on a local forum that this is normal, to give her time to adapt and continue bathing.
as soon as I arrived, I noticed that she was breathing and seemed to be twitching her neck. The doctor online said that this is normal, there may be some tension inside. the doctor advised to let the turtle adapt for the first two months, and then go and get tested for parasites, etc. since the turtle is small and if you treat it, you need to give it time to get stronger in a new place.
I couldn’t stand it for two months, the turtle seemed to be in a good mood, the other day I went to the doctor.
I tested the turtle's stool for parasites - no. Today I tested it in another place, it showed an insignificant presence, the doctor said it’s not scary and there’s no point in driving them away, since there will be more harm from the medicine than from the number of eggs found in the poop; they could have gotten there on plant leaves.
They did an x-ray. showed bloating in the intestines.
backstory in backstory: The turtle seller said that the birthday is 03/10/2024. At the time of my purchase she was almost four months old. Now she is supposedly five months old.
While reading this forum I was very confused that the turtle currently weighs 56 grams. she weighed 54 grams two weeks ago, but this is not accurate, since the poop is back and forth, two grams is not enough.
Yesterday I passed the first stool test, took an x-ray, talked to the doctor, and in the evening I decided to look at the document again to see if the turtle was from the wild. and saw “date of birth 12/2023”.
I wrote to the seller, he did not answer anything. I wrote to the woman whose contacts are listed in the document. she confirmed that my seller bought them from her. that at the moment the turtle is 9 months old. the woman is shocked. she is very sorry that this happened. She says that she explained to the buyer how to care for them. From the photo, she is almost sure that the turtle is hers, since she marks them with different colors depending on who the turtles' parents are. and said that the color of the shell was also similar to her babies.
Then I found an advertisement for this seller from whom I bought. Everywhere in the photo, turtles are eating lettuce leaves.
In general, as far as I understand, the turtle ate normally for the first 4 months of its life. Then the turtle came to my seller and ate lettuce leaves for 3 months. and then she came to me and eats weeds.
the woman whose contacts are in the document did not answer me about humidity at the birth stage. but she said that in the seller’s photo the soil is a little dry and she advises keeping it moist and spraying every day at night. I hope she has the right conditions at birth
Based on the results of the x-ray, the doctor said to reduce the succulent herbs and add dry ones. outwardly the turtle is healthy and active. We cannot take blood to check the kidneys, since it is too small and would be a lot of stress for the body. there are no signs of problems other than the absence of salts in the urine. but they are barely present in the stool analysis. he is worried that there should be more of them. but for now we can’t do anything, first we need to remove the bloating in the intestines, and then maybe everything will return to normal.
So the question is: please tell me, do you have any thoughts on this matter? how to help a turtle recover? I'm thinking of ordering Mazuri and a probiotic for turtles. Do I really need to add more dry herbs? the fact is that the turtle does not want to eat them. I mixed dandelion with arcadia dry food (soaked it a little), but the turtle chose the leaves and that’s it. It seems to me that restricting her food is bad, given her weight.
lives on exo terra coconut fiber, we don't have orchid bark. nibble on the cuttlefish shell, through feeding I add arcadia calcium and arcadia vitamin clay.
The size of the enclosure is currently 43x100cm. At first I read the wrong information, where it was written that 40x60 is suitable. I plan to make a bigger one when he grows up a little
I try to take him out to the park for walks more often. happens once a week, sometimes 3 times a week, for 1-2 hours. All this time the turtle eats or goes somewhere. walks a lot
