Thank you everyone for you suggestions I have used them all and he is slowly becoming more active and eating properly again. And is once again a happy tortoise.
He does have a raised baskin stop which he is using a lot less recently so I assumed the temperature was too much. I will change the times see if that helps. I will attempt to trim his his beak thank you again. The gradient drops about 5 degrees not to 5 should have clarified
Thank you I didn't know his beak could be clipped. He does sleep out in the open quite alot this had crossed my mind as I do zoology degree so it seemed counter intuitive that he just sprawls out. Obviously I don't deal with many domesticated animals so that's why Ive turned to this paget for...
He has not yet been hiberated so this may be a large contributing factor. His day time temp is 30 degrees with a tank gradient of about 5 degrees at the coold end. His over night temp is roughly 20 degrees this I am not certain on as obviously I'm unable to monitorit constantly. The lights are...
Thank you I shall check your proposed threads. I do check him for dehydration quite often as an ex partner of mine was not very attentive while I was away and he did have some issues with this.
OK so not new to this but I could do with some help. My tortoise has this rather strange habit of falling asleep in strange places. It seems to be happening more and more I'm a little worried there's something I'm missing. Hopefully the image has uploaded. This is him asleep at his food bowl not...