sick tortoise
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Daily for 30 minutes and add piedialyte also. Keep water and tort warm.
Tell us what's going on and everything about it's care, light, heat, temps humidity, enclosure etc and we can help more v
Tell us what's going on and everything about it's care, light, heat, temps humidity, enclosure etc and we can help more v
. . . and pictures of the enclosure with the baby in the pictures, please.
What is the tortoise sick with? How did it get sick? These answers relate to your question.
She just randomly stopped eating and moving around so i made a close chamber enclosure with heat, stays around 95 during the day and night and i spray down the enclosure to keep it humid. Ive been doing this throughout the last 3 days and i have see very little improvement. What can i do better to start seeing more improvements
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Littleredfootbigredheart
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Is the 95 reading just directly under the bulb? Because that’s a desired basking temperature but not all over, you want the rest in the 85 range whilst baby is sick, I’d get a ceramic bulb as soon as you can so you’re keeping things warm enough overnight
I have a ceramic heat bulb. The other temps on the other side are in the 80s. If i keep soaking her and keeping her warm and humid when do you think she would start feeling better.
Littleredfootbigredheart
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Ok sounds good, these things can take time and feel frustratingly slow, I would personally hope to see at least some mild improvement around a week or so.
Unfortunately sometimes with a baby that’s been raised too dry they can continue to decline despite doing everything possible correctly moving forward(which you are)I hope that won’t be the case, but I do want to prepare for worst scenario, babies are so very fragile at this stage.
