I have a Russian tortoise and I’ve had him for a couple weeks. This is my first time having a tortoise and I’ve read a lot on how to take care but I just need more help.
One of his eyes is swollen on the bottom and it’s been closed for the past couple days, I’ve washed it with warm water when I give him his soak and it’s slowly opening but I don’t want this to happen again.
His substrate is a mix of top soil, peat moss, and cypress mulch, 60:10:30 and we keep it moist. We spot clean everyday, if I let him roam in the backyard I keep him on the mulch and not so much the grass. He drinks when we soak him, his eyes aren’t glossy, his feces is normal...
I just hope I’m doing the right things...
One of his eyes is swollen on the bottom and it’s been closed for the past couple days, I’ve washed it with warm water when I give him his soak and it’s slowly opening but I don’t want this to happen again.
His substrate is a mix of top soil, peat moss, and cypress mulch, 60:10:30 and we keep it moist. We spot clean everyday, if I let him roam in the backyard I keep him on the mulch and not so much the grass. He drinks when we soak him, his eyes aren’t glossy, his feces is normal...
I just hope I’m doing the right things...