Lady321
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I have a five month old sulcata tortoise. His diet consist of green leaf, tortoise pebbles and a sprinkle of calcium 3 times a week. For five days straight, I noticed that my tortoise was not eating and drinking on the regular and seemed to be slowing down with everything, but still was moving around a bit. I took the initiative to keep his water at lukewarm, throughout the days, during these 5 days. This past Monday, after I changed his water and food, he was moving around, like normal, inside his water pan. I noticed that he had made a bowel movement and I immediately changed his water. Afterwards, I removed him from his tank, to bring him outside, to his enclosure and please note it was about 78 degrees outside. While carrying him outside, he was moving in my hand, just a little bit and once I placed him into his enclosure, after 20 minutes, I noticed there wasn’t any movement from him. He had tucked his head inside the shell; yet his other limbs remained out; I thought nothing of it other than he may be resting.
A little over an half hour later, I checked him again and he seems motionless, as I picked him up to look at him. His two front limbs felt just a tad bit stiff. But within minutes, they felt normal and flexible again; while his head is still tucked in like he’s sleeping. His eyes seemed normal, there are no signs of mucus excreting no where and he feels to be room temperature. It’s been 3 days today and still no response. His color is the same, he’s limbs are still flexing as normal, his head is still tucked, but the area around his eyes seems very very slightly dark and on his left eye, it seems to be a tiny opening, where you can see a gleam from the light. There’s no abnormal smells etc from him or the tank. Ive been changing his water, periodically, to keep his temperature normal. But nothing’s seems to work. Not sure if he’s hibernating, in a state like coma, or the worst, dead. Please help.
A little over an half hour later, I checked him again and he seems motionless, as I picked him up to look at him. His two front limbs felt just a tad bit stiff. But within minutes, they felt normal and flexible again; while his head is still tucked in like he’s sleeping. His eyes seemed normal, there are no signs of mucus excreting no where and he feels to be room temperature. It’s been 3 days today and still no response. His color is the same, he’s limbs are still flexing as normal, his head is still tucked, but the area around his eyes seems very very slightly dark and on his left eye, it seems to be a tiny opening, where you can see a gleam from the light. There’s no abnormal smells etc from him or the tank. Ive been changing his water, periodically, to keep his temperature normal. But nothing’s seems to work. Not sure if he’s hibernating, in a state like coma, or the worst, dead. Please help.