pippin
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Hi all. Some months ago when we adopted "shelly" our 21 year old female hermanns tortoise you good people set me on the right path and educated me on how to care for her correctly. We initially had her in an indoor set up whilst we made her an open enclosure with a night box (following Tom's example) outside, we are north uk based. Her night box has a 75w arcadia basking flood bulb (switched on when weather is cool/dull and a ceramic thermostatically controlled heater set at 15c It is left open in the day for her to come in and out at will. I close her up at night and switch the light off.
All was going well until this month! The light has been on nearly all day as the weather has been cool and wet. But she keeps leaving her box and I kept finding her digging down in her run in the cold and wet! She also stopped eating despite my best efforts to encourage her.
She has also lost a little weight (because not eating same?)
I have now brought her in and placed her in an inside run as was worried about her getting too cold/wet!(she's not happy as smaller and "differrent ")
I'm soaking her everyday and trying to encourage her to eat, her light is on for her to bask . I was going to bruminate her but don't want to do it if she's not prepared properly! Help!
All was going well until this month! The light has been on nearly all day as the weather has been cool and wet. But she keeps leaving her box and I kept finding her digging down in her run in the cold and wet! She also stopped eating despite my best efforts to encourage her.
She has also lost a little weight (because not eating same?)
I have now brought her in and placed her in an inside run as was worried about her getting too cold/wet!(she's not happy as smaller and "differrent ")
I'm soaking her everyday and trying to encourage her to eat, her light is on for her to bask . I was going to bruminate her but don't want to do it if she's not prepared properly! Help!
