Fred is a 11-year-old rescue tortoise from New York. When he arrived in Hawaii, he had an odd spot about the size of a dime on the bottom of his shell towards the back. The shell was discolored, was flaking a bit. I cleaned it up, scraped away the loose flakes, applied neosporin a few times over the next two months (in retrospect, might not have been the smartest thing to do as I don't know if neosporin is harmful to a tort). It didn't improve but didn't get worse so I left it at that and let nature take it's course.
Last night at 2 AM, my wife woke me up to let me know it was storming outside and she was worried that Fred's burrow would get flooded as it's gotten somewhat full of water a few times in the past during extremely heavy rains. So I crawl through the trees in the mud and pull him out (still nice and dry - the rains had just started pouring). I wrestled him out and then tipped him over to wash him off before bringing him into the house (have newborn triplets, white carpeting, etc) and noticed that the old spot had fresh blood coming out of it. Very little, but fresh blood nevertheless.
Thoughts? Shell disease of some sort? Any kind of medication I can, or should be giving him or applying to the wound?
-Paul
Last night at 2 AM, my wife woke me up to let me know it was storming outside and she was worried that Fred's burrow would get flooded as it's gotten somewhat full of water a few times in the past during extremely heavy rains. So I crawl through the trees in the mud and pull him out (still nice and dry - the rains had just started pouring). I wrestled him out and then tipped him over to wash him off before bringing him into the house (have newborn triplets, white carpeting, etc) and noticed that the old spot had fresh blood coming out of it. Very little, but fresh blood nevertheless.
Thoughts? Shell disease of some sort? Any kind of medication I can, or should be giving him or applying to the wound?
-Paul