Need advice ASAP!!! (discolored mouth)

[savannah_c]

Usually I give my tortoise a variety of greens and recently I gave him romaine lettuce and he loves it! I did notice that after eating romaine lettuce his mouth area has turned a sort of darker shade then it was before, I'm extremely worried! Can anyone give me advice on why it could be darker?

 

[leigti]

It could just be that his mouth got wet eating the Romain lettuce. There's lots of water in there.

 

[majxmom]

Barstow's mouth always looks like that after eating lettuce. You ought to see him after a blueberry!

 

[Tom]

Might not have anything to do with the lettuce. They will frequently eat their own poo. I call it: "The dreaded black mouth disease", in jest.

 

[ascott]

Usually I give my tortoise a variety of greens and recently I gave him romaine lettuce and he loves it! I did notice that after eating romaine lettuce his mouth area has turned a sort of darker shade then it was before, I'm extremely worried! Can anyone give me advice on why it could be darker? View attachment 188357 View attachment 188358

It gets darker because6se the romainne is wonderfully full of water...when they devour the lettuce they really go at it and the face gets saturated with the moisture...all good and totally normal after a face full of romainne...

 

[Aunt Caffy]

Usually I give my tortoise a variety of greens and recently I gave him romaine lettuce and he loves it! I did notice that after eating romaine lettuce his mouth area has turned a sort of darker shade then it was before, I'm extremely worried! Can anyone give me advice on why it could be darker? View attachment 188357 View attachment 188358

What a precious little face!

 

[Coco Channell]

OMG I was so worried about my little ET s face and mouth. Now I know he's ok and I'm not doing anything wrong. He ate Romaine and red hibiscus and his face looks black

 

[Yvonne G]

OMG I was so worried about my little ET s face and mouth. Now I know he's ok and I'm not doing anything wrong. He ate Romaine and red hibiscus and his face looks black

It was the hibiscus!

Coco, you've just proved that if one were to do a 'search' for the answer to their question, they would find a lot of helpful information. I see that you've brought up three different old threads that answer your stained mouth question! Good job!!