terri_the_tortoise
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Hello everyone - I'd like to introduce Terri, who we picked up at the end of September and was hoping we could get some advice. She is a Testudo Graeca (Greek Tortoise).
She sleeps a lot (as we fully expect her to) but we are starting to think she is sleeping TOO much - as in she will sleep and sleep unless we wake her. This means she also doesn't eat or drink unless prompted and even then she only seems to want cucumber.
She has a variety of food available including fresh water, dried flowers, food pellets and a variety of fresh fruit and vegetables (such as cucumber, tomato's, peppers, spinach etc) along with some hay but doesn't seem tempted by this at all.
Her heat lamp is now a 125w basking light after we realised the one we had before was too small but hadn't realised immediately.
We have been following advice we have got from a tortoise book and online, but feel like there is a lot of conflicting advice. I've contacted the breeder for advice but this hasn't been very helpful at all.
Any advice or guidance we can get would be appreciated.
She sleeps a lot (as we fully expect her to) but we are starting to think she is sleeping TOO much - as in she will sleep and sleep unless we wake her. This means she also doesn't eat or drink unless prompted and even then she only seems to want cucumber.
She has a variety of food available including fresh water, dried flowers, food pellets and a variety of fresh fruit and vegetables (such as cucumber, tomato's, peppers, spinach etc) along with some hay but doesn't seem tempted by this at all.
Her heat lamp is now a 125w basking light after we realised the one we had before was too small but hadn't realised immediately.
We have been following advice we have got from a tortoise book and online, but feel like there is a lot of conflicting advice. I've contacted the breeder for advice but this hasn't been very helpful at all.
Any advice or guidance we can get would be appreciated.