haroldthehermann
Member
Hey guys. I know I've posted alot about my baby but he really needs help. I don't think he has hatching failure syndrome, and if he does there is something more to it. He really needs help and i dont know how much longer he will make it. Ive typed this once before but lost all my progress so i am cutting to the chase. If you need more information please ask. Your help is really needed and would be appreciated.
Ive had him for 5 days. I purchased him from backwater reptiles and he was shipped from Florida to Kansas. His tank is setup is in the parameters of the info here on tortoise forum. He is about 2 weeks old, 2" long, and a sulcata. He is soaked about 3 times a day for various time limits and is fed a tortoise diet with romaine lettuce. He takes .05 ml of amoxcicillin 2 every day for a RI. He possibly also has MBD and hatching failure syndrome. His symptoms include....
1) Dark brown discoloration on the shell and body.
2) He refuses to eat or drink on his own, and usually this is chalked up to loss of appetiet but its not. If i hand feed him lettuce or spoon feed him mush he eats like a beast!! If you were to look at him then you wouldnt suspect he is sick. Otherwise he does seem uninterested in eating on his own, and he only 'drinks' during soaks.
3) He hasnt pooped more than once in the 5 days I've had him. When he did poop it was small.
4) He is very lehargic and doenst walk alot. When he does walk he moves an inch, rests, moves, rests, and so on. Sometimes when he moves it seems panicky and desperate and when he moves like this it usually results with him falling over.
5) He just seems overall uninterested in anything a tortoise is suposed to like.
6) pyramiding
Please please please help me! The reason i cant just say it is HFS is because these symptoms usually only set in in 10-14 month old torts. Please feel free to ask any and every question you have. Me and my baby really need help.
Thanks.
-Vanessa
Ive had him for 5 days. I purchased him from backwater reptiles and he was shipped from Florida to Kansas. His tank is setup is in the parameters of the info here on tortoise forum. He is about 2 weeks old, 2" long, and a sulcata. He is soaked about 3 times a day for various time limits and is fed a tortoise diet with romaine lettuce. He takes .05 ml of amoxcicillin 2 every day for a RI. He possibly also has MBD and hatching failure syndrome. His symptoms include....
1) Dark brown discoloration on the shell and body.
2) He refuses to eat or drink on his own, and usually this is chalked up to loss of appetiet but its not. If i hand feed him lettuce or spoon feed him mush he eats like a beast!! If you were to look at him then you wouldnt suspect he is sick. Otherwise he does seem uninterested in eating on his own, and he only 'drinks' during soaks.
3) He hasnt pooped more than once in the 5 days I've had him. When he did poop it was small.
4) He is very lehargic and doenst walk alot. When he does walk he moves an inch, rests, moves, rests, and so on. Sometimes when he moves it seems panicky and desperate and when he moves like this it usually results with him falling over.
5) He just seems overall uninterested in anything a tortoise is suposed to like.
6) pyramiding
Please please please help me! The reason i cant just say it is HFS is because these symptoms usually only set in in 10-14 month old torts. Please feel free to ask any and every question you have. Me and my baby really need help.
Thanks.
-Vanessa