VictorJames
New Member
Hi all,
I have a year old Hermann tortoise since March and he has always been a good eater. He has not eaten for a few days and was only eating very little in the few days before that. He has an indoor tortoise table with soil substrate and a variety of surfaces/areas to explore. It is quite large for his size and has a basking spot under a combined mercury lamp which is approx 33 degrees C. His cool end is around 26.
He has fresh water and edible plants in the soil (weeds, viola, geraniums, begonia etc). I offer him dandelions, clover, geraniums, rose petals, kale, cress, lambs lettuce and he is taking anything. I even resorted to the pellets I got (which he used to eat sometimes) and he wont even eat those. On the face of it he looks healthy, bright eyes, moving well etc.
He also has an outside enclosure with similar plants, hiding spaces, basking spot etc, although the weather is turning so he wont be able to go out a huge amount soon.
He seems distracted by constantly trying to climb the walls of the tortoise table (which is wood, no glass). I know Hermanns can be quite keen on climbing so I have given him different areas to explore his climbing instinct but he still tries to climb the walls of the table.
Any thoughts welcome, I have read all the advice on the forums and have tried to cover all the possible reasons for this behaviour.
Thanks
VJ
I have a year old Hermann tortoise since March and he has always been a good eater. He has not eaten for a few days and was only eating very little in the few days before that. He has an indoor tortoise table with soil substrate and a variety of surfaces/areas to explore. It is quite large for his size and has a basking spot under a combined mercury lamp which is approx 33 degrees C. His cool end is around 26.
He has fresh water and edible plants in the soil (weeds, viola, geraniums, begonia etc). I offer him dandelions, clover, geraniums, rose petals, kale, cress, lambs lettuce and he is taking anything. I even resorted to the pellets I got (which he used to eat sometimes) and he wont even eat those. On the face of it he looks healthy, bright eyes, moving well etc.
He also has an outside enclosure with similar plants, hiding spaces, basking spot etc, although the weather is turning so he wont be able to go out a huge amount soon.
He seems distracted by constantly trying to climb the walls of the tortoise table (which is wood, no glass). I know Hermanns can be quite keen on climbing so I have given him different areas to explore his climbing instinct but he still tries to climb the walls of the table.
Any thoughts welcome, I have read all the advice on the forums and have tried to cover all the possible reasons for this behaviour.
Thanks
VJ