I could be wrong but his shell development makes me think that he’s a wild caught tortoise. If so, he’s been through a LOT. Huge changes, illness, possibly parasites. And it’s likely that he will only eat what he grew up eating in the wild.
I have what my vet thinks is a wild caught eastern Hermann’s and a captive bred Ibera Greek and the Greek will eat almost ANYTHING. He loves to eat and was offered a large variety of foods as he grew up. The Hermann’s is really picky and would live on soaked tortoise food and Romaine lettuce if I didn’t chop up and sneak other stuff into his food bowl.
My Greek
also had an URI. He just stopped getting injections about a week ago. He was on Cephalexin. And he was also getting ofloxacin eye drops for 2 weeks. He’s 100% better now. Hoping you get good results as well. The daily warm water soaks (make sure that the water temp stays warm by taking out cold water and adding in warm while he’s soaking), the temperatures and humidity and medication should really help him. Hoping he gets an appetite once he’s feeling better.
One thing that I have noticed about my tortoises is that noise stresses them out. They aren’t crazy about the sound of the tv but they are much less crazy about the sounds of multiple people talking loudly. Especially noisy children. They go hide when the kids come over. The kids aren’t allowed to touch them so they don’t really pay any attention to the tortoises but the torts still don’t want to be out and about when the kids are here.
I have what my vet thinks is a wild caught eastern Hermann’s and a captive bred Ibera Greek and the Greek will eat almost ANYTHING. He loves to eat and was offered a large variety of foods as he grew up. The Hermann’s is really picky and would live on soaked tortoise food and Romaine lettuce if I didn’t chop up and sneak other stuff into his food bowl.
My Greek
also had an URI. He just stopped getting injections about a week ago. He was on Cephalexin. And he was also getting ofloxacin eye drops for 2 weeks. He’s 100% better now. Hoping you get good results as well. The daily warm water soaks (make sure that the water temp stays warm by taking out cold water and adding in warm while he’s soaking), the temperatures and humidity and medication should really help him. Hoping he gets an appetite once he’s feeling better.
One thing that I have noticed about my tortoises is that noise stresses them out. They aren’t crazy about the sound of the tv but they are much less crazy about the sounds of multiple people talking loudly. Especially noisy children. They go hide when the kids come over. The kids aren’t allowed to touch them so they don’t really pay any attention to the tortoises but the torts still don’t want to be out and about when the kids are here.