Do you have a closed chamber or an open topped enclosure? What is the overnight low? How are you maintaining ambient and night temps?I saw my 10 months old sully making bubles with her nose. Doesn that mean she has an R.I ?
I have a closed chamber but there is also a place where she can go out at room temperature. Im maintaining ambient and night temps with a thermostat with the probe at the corner of the chamber far away from the che. For the last month I set the inkbird to 85 with a degree variation so when it hits 82 it starts until it reaches 85 again.Do you have a closed chamber or an open topped enclosure? What is the overnight low? How are you maintaining ambient and night temps?
That all sounds good except for the room temp part. RIs are almost always caused by cool temps. usually at night.I have a closed chamber but there is also a place where she can go out at room temperature. Im maintaining ambient and night temps with a thermostat with the probe at the corner of the chamber far away from the che. For the last month I set the inkbird to 85 with a degree variation so when it hits 82 it starts until it reaches 85 again.
Ok Im gomma have to figure that out has I wanted to make a new bigger and improved closed chamber in two months but it looks like im gonna have to improvise. Are you saying an R.I can be cured without antibiotics?That all sounds good except for the room temp part. RIs are almost always caused by cool temps. usually at night.
I'd make it so that no part of the enclosure drops below 85-90 day or night for at least two weeks after symptoms disappear.
Yes. Antibiotics only treat the symptoms. It is a constant complaint of mine that some vets just treat the symptoms and never address the CAUSE of the symptoms. Tortoises don't just get sick for no reason. Something happens to make them sick. That something needs to be discovered and corrected, or treating the symptoms is futile.Ok Im gomma have to figure that out has I wanted to make a new bigger and improved closed chamber in two months but it looks like im gonna have to improvise. Are you saying an R.I can be cured without antibiotics?
Yes I know how it can be hard to maintain to proper temps where I live but I can do it i've just been stupid. I figured that if she has acces to the correct temps she would be fine because has soon has she think it's too cold she can comeback inside for heat.Yes. Antibiotics only treat the symptoms. It is a constant complaint of mine that some vets just treat the symptoms and never address the CAUSE of the symptoms. Tortoises don't just get sick for no reason. Something happens to make them sick. That something needs to be discovered and corrected, or treating the symptoms is futile.
When caught early, and the cause of the problem (cold temps) is corrected, it will usually halt the onset of an RI and make all the symptoms go away. Keep this tropical species warm enough is always a challenge in colder climates. Where they come from it is all hot all the time. Most days year round are near 100 degrees. Ground temps where they burrow are between 80 and 85 all the time, year round. There is no 65-70 degrees in the wild for sulcatas. Some of them seem to be able to tolerate colder temps some of the time in our temperate climate in our captive enclosures and survive, but many of them get sick and die when temps are too cool.
Not all runny noses are an RI. Caught early it's more like just a cold. Temps being raised and maintained for a while can clear up the symptoms and stop it from going into an RI.Ok Im gomma have to figure that out has I wanted to make a new bigger and improved closed chamber in two months but it looks like im gonna have to improvise. Are you saying an R.I can be cured without antibiotics?
Unfortunately, tortoises don't have that capacity for logic. Where they come from, the temperature is never too cold, so wherever they park themselves, for whatever reason, the temperature is always okay. On another continent with a totally different climate, they simply don't have the capacity to figure this out.Yes I know how it can be hard to maintain to proper temps where I live but I can do it i've just been stupid. I figured that if she has acces to the correct temps she would be fine because has soon has she think it's too cold she can comeback inside for heat.
ok I understand. So let's say she's an adult and it's summer time here, what minimal temperature can I let her roam outside?Unfortunately, tortoises don't have that capacity for logic. Where they come from, the temperature is never too cold, so wherever they park themselves, for whatever reason, the temperature is always okay. On another continent with a totally different climate, they simply don't have the capacity to figure this out.