StarShell
New Member
Hello! My tortoise has been scratching his eye and I see him do it a lot but his eyelids don't look swollen and there doesn't seem to be anything in his eye. He/She has also dug up some substrate in the corner of the enclosure near the slate that I put under his basking are but at first it wasn't so bad but I put the substrate back and he dug it back up except deeper and at night when the basking/uvb lights go off he goes over to the corner and sleeps over there!? Maybe that's whats causing the eye scratching but if I put the substrate back then he'll dig it back up, but when he does go in the corner he's on his side and has a hard time getting back up and one time he was "standing up" and because of the gap between the slate in the wall it allowed him to fall back therefore making him flip over it really scared me and I almost wanted to put it back but I know he'll dig it deeper. Sorry for ranting but is it okay to leave it like this and what is causing the eye scratching?
Thank you!?
Thank you!?