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As you guys may have seen in the past on the leopard forum, one of my young pardalis babies has been "up and down" health wise with a URI early on and now that the URI has cleared up has ALOT of trouble opening it's eyes.
Without telling the entire story again it's been at least two weeks since its eaten and despite my baby food soaks, upped temps, and eyes drops its eye situation is still very bad. Not puffy at all but they take forever to open and then they don't stay open long.
Her weight has only dropped from 2.2 ounces to 2.0 despite her not eating but she hasn't pooped in over two weeks. Her shell is still firm and she actually has good energy when handled and I find her in different areas of her enclosure all the time.
With all that being said I think my next step out of desperation is to attempt force feeding her with perhaps mazuri through a syringe to get something in her system. I have heard that it can yield good results but I would like other people's suggestions on any "do or don't " since I've never attempted this.
Has anyone had success with force feeding very young tortoises back to health? I'm desperate for advice.
Without telling the entire story again it's been at least two weeks since its eaten and despite my baby food soaks, upped temps, and eyes drops its eye situation is still very bad. Not puffy at all but they take forever to open and then they don't stay open long.
Her weight has only dropped from 2.2 ounces to 2.0 despite her not eating but she hasn't pooped in over two weeks. Her shell is still firm and she actually has good energy when handled and I find her in different areas of her enclosure all the time.
With all that being said I think my next step out of desperation is to attempt force feeding her with perhaps mazuri through a syringe to get something in her system. I have heard that it can yield good results but I would like other people's suggestions on any "do or don't " since I've never attempted this.
Has anyone had success with force feeding very young tortoises back to health? I'm desperate for advice.