Etherealheart
Member
Hey there guys,
So, obviously it's been a few weeks, we have made changes to his enclosure and overall he's seeming a lot healthier, his eyes look less sunken, his skin looks less dry, and his plastron has even hardened a bit. As well as this his egg tooth is now gone.
However it is quite alarming that he seems to have lost weight. Within the week after the changes he'd gained 1g however recently he's been losing about 1g a week, and he is now 25g.
The humidity is consistently above 80% and the temperature has varied between 26-30°c depending on time of day.
We bath him everyday for 15-20 minutes.
We feed him mostly chopped up grass and weeds twice a day, however he does not eat much of it, and he can be quite picky, seems the only thing he will eat a lot of is dandelion leaves, which we are running low on supply of and I've read they shouldn't be the staple of their diet.
Also we bought him some calcium powder and he refused to eat the food it was on so we bought him some cuttlebone but he never eats any of it.
He spends his time either sleeping or circling the sides of the enclosure, so we thought maybe he was bored and so we moved things around a bit, but he is still doing it.
He doesn't spend much time under his heat lamp until the evenings as well for some reason. He has also recently started sleeping in random places in the enclosure rather than just in his hide. But he is a little more active in general.
If anyone has any ideas how we can help the little guy to eat more or just in general be happier and healthier I'd be ever so grateful.
So, obviously it's been a few weeks, we have made changes to his enclosure and overall he's seeming a lot healthier, his eyes look less sunken, his skin looks less dry, and his plastron has even hardened a bit. As well as this his egg tooth is now gone.
However it is quite alarming that he seems to have lost weight. Within the week after the changes he'd gained 1g however recently he's been losing about 1g a week, and he is now 25g.
The humidity is consistently above 80% and the temperature has varied between 26-30°c depending on time of day.
We bath him everyday for 15-20 minutes.
We feed him mostly chopped up grass and weeds twice a day, however he does not eat much of it, and he can be quite picky, seems the only thing he will eat a lot of is dandelion leaves, which we are running low on supply of and I've read they shouldn't be the staple of their diet.
Also we bought him some calcium powder and he refused to eat the food it was on so we bought him some cuttlebone but he never eats any of it.
He spends his time either sleeping or circling the sides of the enclosure, so we thought maybe he was bored and so we moved things around a bit, but he is still doing it.
He doesn't spend much time under his heat lamp until the evenings as well for some reason. He has also recently started sleeping in random places in the enclosure rather than just in his hide. But he is a little more active in general.
If anyone has any ideas how we can help the little guy to eat more or just in general be happier and healthier I'd be ever so grateful.