Please help! Is my tortoise sick?

[Laceym]

I’ve had Tully for a few months. I believe she was born in January. I asked a guy on here for advice and I’ve done everything he has said.

Three days ago, I noticed she had snot bubbles and was squeaking… I did some googling and now I’m terrified.
Please help. What does this mean? Is this something I need to worry about or will it go away on its own?

I had to take a pic in the bathroom to show what was going on.

 

[RandyTortoise]

I’ve had Tully for a few months. I believe she was born in January. I asked a guy on here for advice and I’ve done everything he has said.

Three days ago, I noticed she had snot bubbles and was squeaking… I did some googling and now I’m terrified.
Please help. What does this mean? Is this something I need to worry about or will it go away on its own?

I had to take a pic in the bathroom to show what was going on.

Probably has a cold. Keep him warm and dry for a few days and it will probably clear up.

 

[RandyTortoise]

I’ve had Tully for a few months. I believe she was born in January. I asked a guy on here for advice and I’ve done everything he has said.

Three days ago, I noticed she had snot bubbles and was squeaking… I did some googling and now I’m terrified.
Please help. What does this mean? Is this something I need to worry about or will it go away on its own?

I had to take a pic in the bathroom to show what was going on.

If you have humidity misting in the air it can cause a cold like symptom That is what I mean by dry just no misting, cut back in the humidity, and keep him warm.

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

I’ve had Tully for a few months. I believe she was born in January. I asked a guy on here for advice and I’ve done everything he has said.

Three days ago, I noticed she had snot bubbles and was squeaking… I did some googling and now I’m terrified.
Please help. What does this mean? Is this something I need to worry about or will it go away on its own?

I had to take a pic in the bathroom to show what was going on.

If we can get details on how baby is housed, it’ll help members coming along to advise, not all questions below are related to the issue at hand, but the more information we have, the better, hope we can help!

What are your temperatures like all over? Ie basking temp(directly under the bulb), overall day temps(middle and cooler side), night temps?
What kind of basking bulb is being used specifically? Packaging photos are good if you have any
Do you use indoor uv? If so what kind?
How’s humidity?
substrate?
What kind of monitoring do you have measuring temps and humidity?

A set up photo would be great if you have one.
Temps are definitely most important here

 

[Laceym]

If we can get details on how baby is housed, it’ll help members coming along to advise, not all questions below are related to the issue at hand, but the more information we have, the better, hope we can help!

What are your temperatures like all over? Ie basking temp(directly under the bulb), overall day temps(middle and cooler side), night temps?
What kind of basking bulb is being used specifically? Packaging photos are good if you have any
Do you use indoor uv? If so what kind?
How’s humidity?
substrate?
What kind of monitoring do you have measuring temps and humidity?

A set up photo would be great if you have one.
Temps are definitely most important here

Basking temp is 81 with a ceramic heating element from Petsmart. I have a tortoise sun lamp UVA+UVB3.0. Humidity ranges from 80%-100%. We have her on a medium sized orchid bark substrate but we are switching to small. We have thermometer that came with the ceramic element lamp and then a humidity gauge off Amazon.

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

Basking temp is 81 with a ceramic heating element from Petsmart. I have a tortoise sun lamp UVA+UVB3.0. Humidity ranges from 80%-100%. We have her on a medium sized orchid bark substrate but we are switching to small. We have thermometer that came with the ceramic element lamp and then a humidity gauge off Amazon.

The basking temp needs to be around 95f just directly under the bulb during the day, this needs to be done using a floodlight, not a spot bulb or a all in one uvb and heat bulb, in your case a halogen.

Temperatures all over should never be dropping lower than 80, if 81 is your basking temperature, the rest of your enclosure is far too cool, I can see you’re using an analog gauge to measure the temp and humidity, those types are very inaccurate and this one is mounted too high, meaning ground temps are potentially even cooler than you think.
High humidity and cool temperatures are a recipe for an RI, which tortoise is showing symptoms of.

UVB choice isn’t priority right now, but I’m going to leave this bit of information to take in once you’re more on top of the main issue;
It’s best going with a separate uvb and heat set up, having combined heat and uv, means when adjusting your height to create the desired basking temperature, you’re messing with your UVI zone, they are much more desiccating on the shell and their uv output often very unreliable.
There’s the added fact of uv timing, with the uv timing, every other source of information will tell you 12hours of uv. This is essentially an old fashioned rule that has stuck with a lot of keepers, it stems from the presumption that once the basking light or ambient lighting is on, ie the ‘sun’, that uv must coexist the same amount of hours. Fact is, uv rays only peak for a few hours a day, anyone with a uv meter will confirm this. No tortoise is blasted with 12 hours of uv in the wild, therefore it’s not necessary in captivity. Whilst not necessarily dangerous, it’s potentially annoying to the tortoise to have 12hours on uv in the enclosure.
The right uv bulbs are much more expensive to replace once their uv strength diminishes, so it’s definitely best having it on a 4 hour timer that provides them with all the uv they need, saving your bulb life.
Then some cheaper led lighting for your ambient 12 hour light cycle as well as the basking light on the same 12hrs, your ceramic(s) will run 24/7 on a thermostat.
The most recommended up to date indoor uv option is t5 tube fluorescent bulbs, they disperse the uv light over a much wider area. Recommended brands are Arcadia proT5 kit or zoo med reptisun t5(hood usually sold separate)

Again, uvb isn’t top priority right now, what I’d do in your case is switch out that halogen bulb for a floodlight, Arcadia do them

Get some digital monitoring(you can get cheap digital gauges from hardware stores) and use that to check what basking temperature you’re getting, with this set up you can’t raise your bulb, so you may have to try different watts.

Keep the thermostat the ceramic is running on to around 85 whilst baby is poorly

 

[Littleredfootbigredheart]

What is your thermostat set to currently? Don’t suppose you happen to have a temperature gun? They’re handy for quick temperature checks