Appliedcello
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I have a Hermann’s tortoise and I have had her for about a year. I have started noticing some redness on her growth lines and she has been having some runny poop recently.
Her diet consists of mustard greens, turnip greens and dandelion greens mostly. I sprinkle her food with calcium once a week and house her in a 6ft by 2ft enclosure. These last two weekends I have had to get away from my house and I usually leave her with some cactus to eat while I’m gone. I was only gone for 3 days at most. Cactus usually makes her poops runny but they usually are solid after a couple of days on her regular diet. The redness along her lines is really starting to scare me because I’m reading about sepsis being a possibility. She is otherwise active and eating like she usually is.
I would immediately book an appointment with a vet, but the vet near where I live has proven that they do not know how to care for tortoises.
Should I be worried or book an appointment with another vet farther away?
Thank you for all your help.
Here is a picture of the redness:
Her diet consists of mustard greens, turnip greens and dandelion greens mostly. I sprinkle her food with calcium once a week and house her in a 6ft by 2ft enclosure. These last two weekends I have had to get away from my house and I usually leave her with some cactus to eat while I’m gone. I was only gone for 3 days at most. Cactus usually makes her poops runny but they usually are solid after a couple of days on her regular diet. The redness along her lines is really starting to scare me because I’m reading about sepsis being a possibility. She is otherwise active and eating like she usually is.
I would immediately book an appointment with a vet, but the vet near where I live has proven that they do not know how to care for tortoises.
Should I be worried or book an appointment with another vet farther away?
Thank you for all your help.
Here is a picture of the redness:
