Newtortmummy
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Please help I’m at the end of what I can do, i purchased a horsefield tort 4 months ago from a pet store ( yes I’m possibly stupid) for my son as his dad had passed away and he’d always wanted a tort of his own as his best friend has one. Sky the tort is around 13 months old and up until the red hot English heatwave we had all was ok other than needing a few soaks every now and again as she kept going off her food and lethargic. As the hot weather hit she went down hill and I’m unsure if it’s coincidental or not but she started going off her food and lethargic, we did daily soaks and after 5 days nothing. We went to the only vets here ( we live in the middle of nowhere and the vets more used to cattle than tortoise) they checked sky and came back saying they had googled and it’s just aestivation, I’ve been back 2 times since then and just get told the same, her eyes swelled and haven’t opened in 2 weeks and now they have gone down but won’t open and it’s like they sink in when she blinks/ twitches them even though they are shut. They gave her a vitamin shot and sent me away and all I get told is it will be aestivation.
She’s had carrot soaks, ive cleaned her eyes with saline water religiously but she’s now not eaten in 3 weeks and other than soaks she’s not drank in 2 weeks.
Her set up is a 4x3 open top tort table with fine orchid bark that’s dampened daily, she had a uvb high output strip light with reflector on and a heat lamp in a dome temperature and humidity etc is checked digitally to ensure all is as it should be and she’s been fed on weeds etc only to ensure she’s healthy. I feel like she’s slipping away and I’m at the end of what to do.
Sorry to waffle on.
She’s had carrot soaks, ive cleaned her eyes with saline water religiously but she’s now not eaten in 3 weeks and other than soaks she’s not drank in 2 weeks.
Her set up is a 4x3 open top tort table with fine orchid bark that’s dampened daily, she had a uvb high output strip light with reflector on and a heat lamp in a dome temperature and humidity etc is checked digitally to ensure all is as it should be and she’s been fed on weeds etc only to ensure she’s healthy. I feel like she’s slipping away and I’m at the end of what to do.
Sorry to waffle on.