- Joined
- Nov 22, 2013
- Messages
- 6
Thanks for the approval to join, new to torts and have 2 baby Sulcata's about 3 months old. I live in Southern California inland empire area, rainy and about 70 degrees now but summers can be in the 100's and dry.
The torts are indoors all day, when summer was around they went outside when I could watch them. Other than that they were indoors near a window and had a UVB and heat lamps on them, I have crushed coconut as the substrate.
Joined because I got a scare with one of them not moving around much the last three days and he hasn't eaten anything, I noticed his shell was soft and his belly was really soft. He was very active up till about three days ago. He pretty much finds a nice warm spot and goes to sleep. My other one is still very active and eating. In fact they have reversed roles, the other one was the younger of the two and was sleeping most of the time
I did find out that I was given some incorrect info on feeding and they have been given mostly store bought leafy greens with some Masuri given maybe once every two weeks, sprinkled calcium w/d3 (no phos) on the food pretty much daily, soaked pretty much every day.
Reading here I see I should be giving them calcium w/d3 and phos ? and should soak with vitasol in the water ?
Could use some expert advice on what I could be doing wrong to the little guy, I did read to do a warmer water soak in case he was blocked up and he did get pretty active and eat a little afterward.
Thanks again for any advice.
The torts are indoors all day, when summer was around they went outside when I could watch them. Other than that they were indoors near a window and had a UVB and heat lamps on them, I have crushed coconut as the substrate.
Joined because I got a scare with one of them not moving around much the last three days and he hasn't eaten anything, I noticed his shell was soft and his belly was really soft. He was very active up till about three days ago. He pretty much finds a nice warm spot and goes to sleep. My other one is still very active and eating. In fact they have reversed roles, the other one was the younger of the two and was sleeping most of the time
I did find out that I was given some incorrect info on feeding and they have been given mostly store bought leafy greens with some Masuri given maybe once every two weeks, sprinkled calcium w/d3 (no phos) on the food pretty much daily, soaked pretty much every day.
Reading here I see I should be giving them calcium w/d3 and phos ? and should soak with vitasol in the water ?
Could use some expert advice on what I could be doing wrong to the little guy, I did read to do a warmer water soak in case he was blocked up and he did get pretty active and eat a little afterward.
Thanks again for any advice.