naya the tortoise
New Member
Hi, I’m a new tortoise owner from Ireland and is hoping to get some advice on my tortoise.
I got my western Herman tortoise who is 9 months old about two weeks ago she’s being trying to escape for the first two day she got here but soon settled in. Though just recently she started scraping the corner of her enclosure again trying to escape I’ve also notice her poo is slightly running and she’s not drinking and eating as much now. I’ve been feeding her escarole and some salad leaves as well as dandelion leaves and clover picked from outside with calcium powder sprayed on it daily, I was also feeding her Komodo pellets along with her diet but she was hooked and is eating less of everything else so I stopped the pellets and started giving her normal food which is when I noticed her loss of appetite and runny poo, I used a few soaked pellet to try to test if she just simply doesn’t like the food and she’s not showing that much interest to the pellet like she used to as well. The loss of appetite has being happening for a few days now and the runny poos being occurring for 2 days the overly active and constantly trying to escape just started today. I’m really worried is this anything serious or am I just being paranoid? (btw her appetite was fine before the pellets it only started a few days after I started giving her pellets I’m not sure if it’s the pellet’s problem? Maybe just coincidence, anyway thought I’d include it in there just in case) I’ve attached a photo of her poo as well in the post, any help is appreciated! also sorry for the messy post and grammar mistake in advance I was in a rush when writing this and didn’t have time to look over.
I got my western Herman tortoise who is 9 months old about two weeks ago she’s being trying to escape for the first two day she got here but soon settled in. Though just recently she started scraping the corner of her enclosure again trying to escape I’ve also notice her poo is slightly running and she’s not drinking and eating as much now. I’ve been feeding her escarole and some salad leaves as well as dandelion leaves and clover picked from outside with calcium powder sprayed on it daily, I was also feeding her Komodo pellets along with her diet but she was hooked and is eating less of everything else so I stopped the pellets and started giving her normal food which is when I noticed her loss of appetite and runny poo, I used a few soaked pellet to try to test if she just simply doesn’t like the food and she’s not showing that much interest to the pellet like she used to as well. The loss of appetite has being happening for a few days now and the runny poos being occurring for 2 days the overly active and constantly trying to escape just started today. I’m really worried is this anything serious or am I just being paranoid? (btw her appetite was fine before the pellets it only started a few days after I started giving her pellets I’m not sure if it’s the pellet’s problem? Maybe just coincidence, anyway thought I’d include it in there just in case) I’ve attached a photo of her poo as well in the post, any help is appreciated! also sorry for the messy post and grammar mistake in advance I was in a rush when writing this and didn’t have time to look over.