Aimie venchus
New Member
Hello!
We rescued a Greek tort in pretty bad condition. I took him to the vet and he had pretty shell rot on his bottom and a respitory infection. We did weekly checks and antibiotic injections. Soaks until we got to fresh flash on the shell rot. She was also under weight so we have been watching that.
When we first got him we tried feeding him a spring mix and he went days without eating. I contacted the previous owners and they said he only eats finely chopped veggies. So to get him to eat I made him chopped veggies. He would eat it and I tried mixing mazuri in and lettuce but he would eat around it.nnow he is only weighing about 520 Grams about 5 grams down from when we got him. He has stopped eating now.
His box is 83 in the dark part of with a backup heat lamp if the box drops below 83. He is in a room that gets daylight but we also have the uv bulb that turns on from 8am until 8pm. He also gets soaks every other day for 20 minutes and explore time for at least an hour each day. He loves to explore all over the house!
So since he went a couple days with out eating I called the vet. She believes he might be trying to hibernate we are not letting him but I need to get him to eat so he does not continue to lose weight. I have been feeding him baby food via a syringe 2-3 times a day. I am doing only veggies and bananas. I know this is not ideal but I don't know what else to do to get him to eat. Have any of you run into this? What else can I be doing for him?
We rescued a Greek tort in pretty bad condition. I took him to the vet and he had pretty shell rot on his bottom and a respitory infection. We did weekly checks and antibiotic injections. Soaks until we got to fresh flash on the shell rot. She was also under weight so we have been watching that.
When we first got him we tried feeding him a spring mix and he went days without eating. I contacted the previous owners and they said he only eats finely chopped veggies. So to get him to eat I made him chopped veggies. He would eat it and I tried mixing mazuri in and lettuce but he would eat around it.nnow he is only weighing about 520 Grams about 5 grams down from when we got him. He has stopped eating now.
His box is 83 in the dark part of with a backup heat lamp if the box drops below 83. He is in a room that gets daylight but we also have the uv bulb that turns on from 8am until 8pm. He also gets soaks every other day for 20 minutes and explore time for at least an hour each day. He loves to explore all over the house!
So since he went a couple days with out eating I called the vet. She believes he might be trying to hibernate we are not letting him but I need to get him to eat so he does not continue to lose weight. I have been feeding him baby food via a syringe 2-3 times a day. I am doing only veggies and bananas. I know this is not ideal but I don't know what else to do to get him to eat. Have any of you run into this? What else can I be doing for him?