Stormy Rose
New Member
I've had my tortoise for about a month now and I am having a few issues with feeding him.
1) He refuses to eat Mazuri diet, do I am unsure if he's getting enough variety in his diet using just the organic spring mix and baby kale I've been feeding him.
2) He favors the red leafs in the spring mix, and recently has only been eating the red ones.
3) For the past 3 days he has not been eating. He ate one red leaf and left the rest 3 days ago, then yesterday he didn't eat at all, and I just tried feeding him today and he once again refused to eat.
I am worried that he may be dehydrated, and I am going to go out before posting this to buy some pedialyte for his daily soaks. I soak him everyday since I got him a month ago, as well as spraying his enclosure a few times a day. His sibstrate is a mix of cypress and coir bedding that I keep really moist. I just measured his enclosure temps and his enclosure is ~82 degrees in the middle, with a 95 degree basking temperature, and ~70 on both ends. At night the temperatures drop to around 65 degrees.
Are these temperatures right for him. I am pretty sure he is only about 6 moths old. The only thing I can think of that explains why he is not eating is that he may be dehydrated. He has noticeably become more hydrated since I first got him, but maybe that it not enough.
Sorry for the long post. Any suggestions for helping my little guy??
Thanks!
1) He refuses to eat Mazuri diet, do I am unsure if he's getting enough variety in his diet using just the organic spring mix and baby kale I've been feeding him.
2) He favors the red leafs in the spring mix, and recently has only been eating the red ones.
3) For the past 3 days he has not been eating. He ate one red leaf and left the rest 3 days ago, then yesterday he didn't eat at all, and I just tried feeding him today and he once again refused to eat.
I am worried that he may be dehydrated, and I am going to go out before posting this to buy some pedialyte for his daily soaks. I soak him everyday since I got him a month ago, as well as spraying his enclosure a few times a day. His sibstrate is a mix of cypress and coir bedding that I keep really moist. I just measured his enclosure temps and his enclosure is ~82 degrees in the middle, with a 95 degree basking temperature, and ~70 on both ends. At night the temperatures drop to around 65 degrees.
Are these temperatures right for him. I am pretty sure he is only about 6 moths old. The only thing I can think of that explains why he is not eating is that he may be dehydrated. He has noticeably become more hydrated since I first got him, but maybe that it not enough.
Sorry for the long post. Any suggestions for helping my little guy??
Thanks!