GramTheRam
New Member
Please help. I don’t know what I need to do, what the best course of action is.
I’ve had two tortoises for years. One of my females is ok, but my other female had a couple red lines on her tummy. I picked her up and I guess I was just being careless because I thought it was maybe ink from the wet newspaper I put her food on. Then over the next 2 days I’ve picked her up and she seems to be eating well and very active still. However today I picked her up and she has all of this bruising looking stuff on her. I’m freaking out and we don’t live very close to any exotic vets. I don’t want her to be in pain, I’m just really scared. Usually it’s hot in Florida, but I took her inside into the garage when it got cold. I did see that one day she had flipped onto her back but that was a while ago. She also climbed up the sides of the enclosure and fell a little but it’s concrete so that couldn’t have been good. Another thing is there was one day where she laid in her own poop and it got stuck. I cleaned it the same day, but I don’t know if maybe that gave her a bacterial infection. Once I heard her fall the first time we’ve had them back outside but I don’t know if maybe that did damage that I just didn’t see. Is there anything I can buy or give her or clean her with?
I’ve had two tortoises for years. One of my females is ok, but my other female had a couple red lines on her tummy. I picked her up and I guess I was just being careless because I thought it was maybe ink from the wet newspaper I put her food on. Then over the next 2 days I’ve picked her up and she seems to be eating well and very active still. However today I picked her up and she has all of this bruising looking stuff on her. I’m freaking out and we don’t live very close to any exotic vets. I don’t want her to be in pain, I’m just really scared. Usually it’s hot in Florida, but I took her inside into the garage when it got cold. I did see that one day she had flipped onto her back but that was a while ago. She also climbed up the sides of the enclosure and fell a little but it’s concrete so that couldn’t have been good. Another thing is there was one day where she laid in her own poop and it got stuck. I cleaned it the same day, but I don’t know if maybe that gave her a bacterial infection. Once I heard her fall the first time we’ve had them back outside but I don’t know if maybe that did damage that I just didn’t see. Is there anything I can buy or give her or clean her with?
