Hello! I created this account for me and my hubby, as we keep few tortoises and also other reptiles and animals 
. We are from Slovenia, it's in Europe, here.
We have three greek tortoises, two were our first tortoises about four years ago. And we got one about few days ago, with really problematic shell and long beak. It seems that shell had some kind of parasites that partially ate her shell. She was in pet store for long time, and according to them, she had parasites on shell about three years ago, that they treated it with some ointment, but shell stayed the same. We will take her to veterinarian who is know how to treat tortoises, but it's really far away so we can't go earlier than next week.
We also have four geochelone sulcatas. One came to us yesterday. We went to get her in Italy. We drove 6 hours there and then another 7 hours back, i'm sure it was quiet stressful for her.
Nala is 55 cm long and have about 31 kg. She is eating fine, but after good bath and scrub we noticed her shell is pretty rubbed off on some places, we also clean it with iodine just in case and put some antibiotic ointment on it. This morning we noticed that on some spots there seems to be small air bubbles under layer of ointment. Does this indicates that there is something wrong with her ?
We also have male Romeo that is about 50 cm and have 18 kg, he is 12 years old according to papers. it's a bit low compared to female, but he gained about 5 kg in last year that we have him.
Then we have two smaller ones, Julia and Ula. Thanks to this forum we started soaking them last summer and success is evident especially in small one who grew quiet a bit since than, and her new growth is flat compared to old one.
All (except the two we didn't have then) were checked last year at vet and have their poop examined, he said they have internal parasites, but that they are very common among tortoises and all got medicine and that was all, after that especially smallest sulcata seem to grow quiet a bit and Romeo gained a lot of weight.
We plan to take all of them to vet again along with greek one with bad shell.
Also during summer they all have outside enclosure with house and some shade to get from sun and we wet them at least once a day. During warmer days, but when nights are still to cold we just get them outside during day. During winter they are inside, all sulcatas except small one and greeks are in open boxes, small sulcata live in terrarium with two basiliscus.
I put some photos in my albums, and i would really appreciate any feedback i can get.
. We are from Slovenia, it's in Europe, here.We have three greek tortoises, two were our first tortoises about four years ago. And we got one about few days ago, with really problematic shell and long beak. It seems that shell had some kind of parasites that partially ate her shell. She was in pet store for long time, and according to them, she had parasites on shell about three years ago, that they treated it with some ointment, but shell stayed the same. We will take her to veterinarian who is know how to treat tortoises, but it's really far away so we can't go earlier than next week.
We also have four geochelone sulcatas. One came to us yesterday. We went to get her in Italy. We drove 6 hours there and then another 7 hours back, i'm sure it was quiet stressful for her.
Nala is 55 cm long and have about 31 kg. She is eating fine, but after good bath and scrub we noticed her shell is pretty rubbed off on some places, we also clean it with iodine just in case and put some antibiotic ointment on it. This morning we noticed that on some spots there seems to be small air bubbles under layer of ointment. Does this indicates that there is something wrong with her ?
We also have male Romeo that is about 50 cm and have 18 kg, he is 12 years old according to papers. it's a bit low compared to female, but he gained about 5 kg in last year that we have him.
Then we have two smaller ones, Julia and Ula. Thanks to this forum we started soaking them last summer and success is evident especially in small one who grew quiet a bit since than, and her new growth is flat compared to old one.
All (except the two we didn't have then) were checked last year at vet and have their poop examined, he said they have internal parasites, but that they are very common among tortoises and all got medicine and that was all, after that especially smallest sulcata seem to grow quiet a bit and Romeo gained a lot of weight.
We plan to take all of them to vet again along with greek one with bad shell.
Also during summer they all have outside enclosure with house and some shade to get from sun and we wet them at least once a day. During warmer days, but when nights are still to cold we just get them outside during day. During winter they are inside, all sulcatas except small one and greeks are in open boxes, small sulcata live in terrarium with two basiliscus.
I put some photos in my albums, and i would really appreciate any feedback i can get.
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