Hey guys,
New owner in need of some help.
I received my baby leopard from Tortoise supply.com on June 11th. He arrived in great shape and I was told he was just shy of two months old. He immediately began eating spring mix, even right from our hands. He was active enough and seemed happy. A little over a week ago he stopped eating and has become lethargic except when soaked. Which is daily for 1/2 hour.
The diet he has been offered is spring mix, dandelion leaves, turnip greens, kale, endive, escarole and some young yucca from the garden. He seemed to stop eating when I sprinkled calcium or MV powder on the food so I stopped that for the time being. He was also offered Herbal Tortoise Hay from Tortoisesupply.com which he showed no interest in. The only thing he has even attempted to eat over the past 5 days is two very small slices of strawberry that I used to tempt him to eat. He didn't finish either of those.
My enclosure set-up is as follows: Zoo-med tortoise house, cypress mulch mixed with coconut coir substrate and wet sphagnum moss on the hot side of the enclosure. Powersun MBV 100 watt (12hr timer), Heat Emitter bulb 100watt (on 24/7) in a dual light fixture stand about 10 inches from substrate. Medium water dish to soak and a ceramic tile to eat off of. Temps are low 70's cool side, high 80's low 90's hot side with the hot spot mid 90's. Humidity mid box has been in the 50% range but I just raked all the substrate and soaked it to get the humidity up to 70%. Obviously higher on the wet moss.
He looks fine other than his behavior. Eyes look good, he opens them regularly. He hasn't pooped since the weekend when he had diarrhea on his substrate. He had been going daily in his bath when he was eating. He did have the white urine discharge in his bath today.
I have him in his first baby food soak right now. Please give me some insight to anything I can do or do differently.
Thanks
New owner in need of some help.
I received my baby leopard from Tortoise supply.com on June 11th. He arrived in great shape and I was told he was just shy of two months old. He immediately began eating spring mix, even right from our hands. He was active enough and seemed happy. A little over a week ago he stopped eating and has become lethargic except when soaked. Which is daily for 1/2 hour.
The diet he has been offered is spring mix, dandelion leaves, turnip greens, kale, endive, escarole and some young yucca from the garden. He seemed to stop eating when I sprinkled calcium or MV powder on the food so I stopped that for the time being. He was also offered Herbal Tortoise Hay from Tortoisesupply.com which he showed no interest in. The only thing he has even attempted to eat over the past 5 days is two very small slices of strawberry that I used to tempt him to eat. He didn't finish either of those.
My enclosure set-up is as follows: Zoo-med tortoise house, cypress mulch mixed with coconut coir substrate and wet sphagnum moss on the hot side of the enclosure. Powersun MBV 100 watt (12hr timer), Heat Emitter bulb 100watt (on 24/7) in a dual light fixture stand about 10 inches from substrate. Medium water dish to soak and a ceramic tile to eat off of. Temps are low 70's cool side, high 80's low 90's hot side with the hot spot mid 90's. Humidity mid box has been in the 50% range but I just raked all the substrate and soaked it to get the humidity up to 70%. Obviously higher on the wet moss.
He looks fine other than his behavior. Eyes look good, he opens them regularly. He hasn't pooped since the weekend when he had diarrhea on his substrate. He had been going daily in his bath when he was eating. He did have the white urine discharge in his bath today.
I have him in his first baby food soak right now. Please give me some insight to anything I can do or do differently.
Thanks
