I just wanted to thank each of you for the help and advice with my tortoise. To update you, as I was still worried about her I took her to the Vets where they found her back knee joints had a nasty infection, so after 3 weeks of antibiotics she is now better and back to her usual self.
THank you for your reply, I will read through those links.
Her beak is overgrown, her food is on a flat rock so hopefully this will help but I have made an appointment with a vet to look at it as I have no experience of trimming it either as it has not happened before.
I will soak her for longer...
Hi, here is the picture you asked for. The damage on her Plastron occurred 17 years ago, she was attacked by a dog.
At the moment she is coming out each day again, since i woke her up to check on her, as she did before which is good, she seems to be returning to her usual habits, although still...
I will post one once I am home. She is in a tank with a heat lamp and UV light. With wood chip and hay (indoors) during the summer she has an outside house in a movable enclosed area so that we can move it around the garden.
Hi, I have had my tortoise for 19 years now and have always looked after her in the same way, outside in the summer, inside in the winter in a temperature controlled environment. I am now concerned that the way I was told to look after her when I originally got her may not be the best way. Her...