Martellone
New Member
Hello everyone,
i write you for a problem with my red foot. I had this tortoise from about 6 years since was a baby. In these years he has always given me some problems with eating. He doesn't like particulary fruits (I try all fruits recommended mango,papaya,apple that he hate, pear, bluberries, ananas, melon,watermelon). For a certain period he eats it and then for months he doesn't want to hear about it anymore.
He had a period of desease, he had a stomatitis and i care he with a antibiotic, on the advice of a veterinarian. He also had a pinworm infestation and was dewormed with panacur. During desease i give him to sustain a lot of bad food, but the only ones he ate (tortoise food european version like mazuri and meal worms) The week after deworming he restart to eat normally, dandelion an clover particullary and not fruits.
Now two weeks after deworming he has stopped eating again. He only eats if I offer him foods that he cannot eat or can eat rarely (tortoise food, wormmeal, banana). The last meal was on Sunday with mealworms. in the past three days i gim him dandelion, radicchio, ananas, papaya, strawberries but he didn't eat. he also became constipated and only had a bowel movement once in two weeks after a long bath in warm water.
What can I do to get her to eat vegetables and fruit again? Is it right to insist until he gets really hungry?
The tortoise is 6 years old, weight 520 g (before disease 580 g) and long 14 cm. From what I read on the forum he remained a little small for the age.
The enclosure is ok, 1,2 mx0.6 m, uvb neon, spot lamp with termostat to 26°C degrees during day and 21°C during night.Humidity maintained by spraying the substrate with water 2/3 times a day at 70%-80%. He has also a "pool" to bath.
I'm sorry for my english but i'm italian and english/Us is not my first language
Thanks
i write you for a problem with my red foot. I had this tortoise from about 6 years since was a baby. In these years he has always given me some problems with eating. He doesn't like particulary fruits (I try all fruits recommended mango,papaya,apple that he hate, pear, bluberries, ananas, melon,watermelon). For a certain period he eats it and then for months he doesn't want to hear about it anymore.
He had a period of desease, he had a stomatitis and i care he with a antibiotic, on the advice of a veterinarian. He also had a pinworm infestation and was dewormed with panacur. During desease i give him to sustain a lot of bad food, but the only ones he ate (tortoise food european version like mazuri and meal worms) The week after deworming he restart to eat normally, dandelion an clover particullary and not fruits.
Now two weeks after deworming he has stopped eating again. He only eats if I offer him foods that he cannot eat or can eat rarely (tortoise food, wormmeal, banana). The last meal was on Sunday with mealworms. in the past three days i gim him dandelion, radicchio, ananas, papaya, strawberries but he didn't eat. he also became constipated and only had a bowel movement once in two weeks after a long bath in warm water.
What can I do to get her to eat vegetables and fruit again? Is it right to insist until he gets really hungry?
The tortoise is 6 years old, weight 520 g (before disease 580 g) and long 14 cm. From what I read on the forum he remained a little small for the age.
The enclosure is ok, 1,2 mx0.6 m, uvb neon, spot lamp with termostat to 26°C degrees during day and 21°C during night.Humidity maintained by spraying the substrate with water 2/3 times a day at 70%-80%. He has also a "pool" to bath.
I'm sorry for my english but i'm italian and english/Us is not my first language
Thanks