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Hello all,
I have a young Hermann's tortoise of about one year old and we have done everything we know of that is posssible to make him (or her) live a happy life. We have a spacious tortoise enclosure with two levels for him and he gets only the best weeds (or grocery greens in a pinch) to eat. The problem is that two of his toenails on one of his back feet grew together and are stuck, and then another two toenails on his front foot opposite the back affected foot have suddenly grown together as well. I have an appointment for him with a reptilian specialist vet next week but I was wondering if anyone had seen this before.
He lives on a substrate that is made of topsoil and playsand mixed together about 50/50, but his "upstairs" level is made up of ExoTerra's jungle bark. He mostly only goes up there to poop or hide out in his HabiHut for a while- most of his time is spent downstairs.
I have a young Hermann's tortoise of about one year old and we have done everything we know of that is posssible to make him (or her) live a happy life. We have a spacious tortoise enclosure with two levels for him and he gets only the best weeds (or grocery greens in a pinch) to eat. The problem is that two of his toenails on one of his back feet grew together and are stuck, and then another two toenails on his front foot opposite the back affected foot have suddenly grown together as well. I have an appointment for him with a reptilian specialist vet next week but I was wondering if anyone had seen this before.
He lives on a substrate that is made of topsoil and playsand mixed together about 50/50, but his "upstairs" level is made up of ExoTerra's jungle bark. He mostly only goes up there to poop or hide out in his HabiHut for a while- most of his time is spent downstairs.