Hi! I hope you guys can offer some help.
I’ve had my Russian tortoise most of my life - he’s around 18 years old now and has been completely fine until the past few weeks. Usually he’ll hibernate and slow down a bit because we have cold winters here in NYC- but the past few weeks we noticed that he still hadn’t come out of hibernation. When we looked at him we noticed his eyes were a bit puffy and we immediately brought him to the vet.
They cited a vitamin a deficiency, and took blood and gave him an injection. About a week passed and they still weren’t any help. He won’t eat or drink or even move at all. We brought him back two days ago and he was given a round of antibiotics and IV to hydrate him - but he’s still not moving.
I tried a carrot juice soak, and we’ve tried giving him all types of foods and other supplements. We bought turtle eye drops from chewy and oral supplements that we’ve been giving him and there’s been no improvement whatsoever.
Usually his diet consists of green leafy vegetables / spring and Italian mixes and the soft turtle pellets. He doesn’t like the hard ones and we have cuttlebone in his tank but he doesn’t like it much. He’s also usually a really good eater but now it’s like he is starving himself to death. I have no idea what to do and I don’t want him to die.
I’ve had my Russian tortoise most of my life - he’s around 18 years old now and has been completely fine until the past few weeks. Usually he’ll hibernate and slow down a bit because we have cold winters here in NYC- but the past few weeks we noticed that he still hadn’t come out of hibernation. When we looked at him we noticed his eyes were a bit puffy and we immediately brought him to the vet.
They cited a vitamin a deficiency, and took blood and gave him an injection. About a week passed and they still weren’t any help. He won’t eat or drink or even move at all. We brought him back two days ago and he was given a round of antibiotics and IV to hydrate him - but he’s still not moving.
I tried a carrot juice soak, and we’ve tried giving him all types of foods and other supplements. We bought turtle eye drops from chewy and oral supplements that we’ve been giving him and there’s been no improvement whatsoever.
Usually his diet consists of green leafy vegetables / spring and Italian mixes and the soft turtle pellets. He doesn’t like the hard ones and we have cuttlebone in his tank but he doesn’t like it much. He’s also usually a really good eater but now it’s like he is starving himself to death. I have no idea what to do and I don’t want him to die.