Sharonnepon
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Well its definitly warm enough. I will update this weekend.
Tortoise is not eating.
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threeboxerlover
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Well you don't want to give him lettuce or tomatoes or cucumbers. He should be eating weeds from a safe source (no spraying) and you have to make sure that the leaves are on the "safe" list. Plantain, Dandelion, clover occasionally. I would still get him to a vet - he could have worms. That's pretty common and could explain the weight loss. You can see a list of suitable foods on the Russian care sheet.
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Sharonnepon
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Okay, thank you.
threeboxerlover
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Good luck and keep us posted on how he's doing!!!
Sharonnepon
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Thank you, i will !
Sharonnepon
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Update ; he hasn't eat all week and we bath him everyday.. still the heat and humidity is perfect. So we contacted a vet and see if we can do a check for parasites.
Sharonnepon
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He is doing great again ! The bathing really helped. He goes into his pool by himself now and he eets a lot ! And then i mean a lot ! Always begging for more food and trashing his home when he doesn't get any. He is back to his old self ! Thanks everyone for the tips and info. Greetings from me & Yoshi 
Bambam1989
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Glad he is doing good
Excellent news
Lisanne Allen
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He is so cute!! What did you change? We had a hatchling Herman pass on us this week with exactly the same issues as your little guy! Glad you were able to heal little yoshi! Curious what you did to make a change so we don’t make the same mistakes a second time.
Sharonnepon
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I'm sorry to hear that.
We first used sand in his home and changed that to coco peat. And a lot of people told us we had to bath him so we did that every single day for about 10-15 min in warm water and after he bathed we put food in front of him, the first 2 weeks he didn't react to it but later he started to eat once a week and now he is back to his old self. Now he goes into his pool by himself, but if you see he doesn't go by himself you have to bath him a few times a week. It's also important that he poops when in his bath so you can check if that is alright. We feed him only vegetables and only from our own grocery store so no food from the pet store. We almost went to the vet to check if he maby had parasites but that wasn't necessary anymore. We also made sure the temperature is higher and the humidity is higher. We choose not to let him go in hibernation because he is still so young and we were afraid he wouldn't survive, so maby you should do that too next time. Also a good baking spot and uv lamp is very important (the uv lamp and basking spot are seriously very important), we have the lights on for about 15 hours a day. I also saw in your other post that you have a open house. This makes it very very hard to keep the temperature and humidity high so i think you should get a closed home because humidity and temperature are the key to his health.
I hope this helps you for the future.
We first used sand in his home and changed that to coco peat. And a lot of people told us we had to bath him so we did that every single day for about 10-15 min in warm water and after he bathed we put food in front of him, the first 2 weeks he didn't react to it but later he started to eat once a week and now he is back to his old self. Now he goes into his pool by himself, but if you see he doesn't go by himself you have to bath him a few times a week. It's also important that he poops when in his bath so you can check if that is alright. We feed him only vegetables and only from our own grocery store so no food from the pet store. We almost went to the vet to check if he maby had parasites but that wasn't necessary anymore. We also made sure the temperature is higher and the humidity is higher. We choose not to let him go in hibernation because he is still so young and we were afraid he wouldn't survive, so maby you should do that too next time. Also a good baking spot and uv lamp is very important (the uv lamp and basking spot are seriously very important), we have the lights on for about 15 hours a day. I also saw in your other post that you have a open house. This makes it very very hard to keep the temperature and humidity high so i think you should get a closed home because humidity and temperature are the key to his health.
I hope this helps you for the future.
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Sharonnepon
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This is what our home looks like. 
Lisanne Allen
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Thank you very much! I truly appreciate the help! I hate that our efforts didn’t yield any improvement for our little guy. It was obviously too little or too late. He didn’t pick back up quick enough. 2 weeks is all we had of issues eating before he passed
QUOTE="Sharonnepon, post: 1539438, member: 101844"]I'm sorry to hear that.
We first used sand in his home and changed that to coco peat. And a lot of people told us we had to bath him so we did that every single day for about 10-15 min in warm water and after he bathed we put food in front of him, the first 2 weeks he didn't react to it but later he started to eat once a week and now he is back to his old self. Now he goes into his pool by himself, but if you see he doesn't go by himself you have to bath him a few times a week. It's also important that he poops when in his bath so you can check if that is alright. We feed him only vegetables and only from our own grocery store so no food from the pet store. We almost went to the vet to check if he maby had parasites but that wasn't necessary anymore. We also made sure the temperature is higher and the humidity is higher. We choose not to let him go in hibernation because he is still so young and we were afraid he wouldn't survive, so maby you should do that too next time. Also a good baking spot and uv lamp is very important (the uv lamp and basking spot are seriously very important), we have the lights on for about 15 hours a day. I also saw in your other post that you have a open house. This makes it very very hard to keep the temperature and humidity high so i think you should get a closed home because humidity and temperature are the key to his health.
I hope this helps you for the future.[/QUOTE]
QUOTE="Sharonnepon, post: 1539438, member: 101844"]I'm sorry to hear that.
We first used sand in his home and changed that to coco peat. And a lot of people told us we had to bath him so we did that every single day for about 10-15 min in warm water and after he bathed we put food in front of him, the first 2 weeks he didn't react to it but later he started to eat once a week and now he is back to his old self. Now he goes into his pool by himself, but if you see he doesn't go by himself you have to bath him a few times a week. It's also important that he poops when in his bath so you can check if that is alright. We feed him only vegetables and only from our own grocery store so no food from the pet store. We almost went to the vet to check if he maby had parasites but that wasn't necessary anymore. We also made sure the temperature is higher and the humidity is higher. We choose not to let him go in hibernation because he is still so young and we were afraid he wouldn't survive, so maby you should do that too next time. Also a good baking spot and uv lamp is very important (the uv lamp and basking spot are seriously very important), we have the lights on for about 15 hours a day. I also saw in your other post that you have a open house. This makes it very very hard to keep the temperature and humidity high so i think you should get a closed home because humidity and temperature are the key to his health.
I hope this helps you for the future.[/QUOTE]
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Lisanne Allen
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What substrate is that? Coconut coir and Pete moss? Mixed 50/50? We put our moss on top maybe I need to crumble smaller and mix
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Sharonnepon
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We bought a pack of coco peat in the petstore, then we had to mix that with water and this is what came out so we didn’t mix two types.
