hello all.
i have a baby sulcata tortoise that's been unwell for a while now; it sleeps all day and only moves when i wake it up for a soak and put it in front of the food dish, and when it walks it's really shaky and wobbly, like its legs are too weak to support its body.
the biggest problem is that all this began ever since I started making improvements to my tortoise setup/routine. it used to live in a very dry 20% humidity place with no water dish, a spot light for basking and a coil uvb light, soaking routine was 3 minutes every other day and it's diet was only pellets (recommended by the person i bought it from); now the humidity stays between 85-95% (sometimes drop down to 70-something during the night), it has a water dish it can get in and out off easily, a regular round bulb for basking and a 10.0 t5 ho uvb tube mounted at around 30cm from the surface, i soak it 20-40 minutes every day, it's diet is wheat grass, soaked timothy hay, katuk, bok choy and pellets sprinkled with calcium and multivitamin powder twice a week (we just bought and are growing bermuda grass, zoysia grass, hibiscus and white clover), i also put a cuttlebone in there 24/7, and it even has an outdoor 200x100x50cm enclosure now (i brought it outside for the first time last week, though i'm hesitant to bring it out again as it's very unwell right now). although we still need to improve it's indoor enclosure (right now is a 90x40x40cm glass enclosure with a screen covered with tin foil to hold humidity, we are upgrading it to a 150x60x60cm closed chamber as soon as possible), i like to think that we've made some wonderful improvements in the past few weeks.
although, like i've said, our baby isn't looking better, rather it's getting worse ☹️. before it was already a little inactive, but it would still poke it's head out and walk around for a bit, now it sleeps ALL day. before when i wake it up and it wants to go back to sleep, it would walk back to the hide, but now it just sleeps where i put it. before it could still walk around with just a little difficulty, but now its legs are so weak that it cant even properly stand up. before it still eats regular, yesterday was the first time it skipped a meal!
to say i'm worried would be an understatement. i'm so confused and frustrated, everytime i change something i thought to myself "this is it, it will definitely get better", but in turn it's just getting worse and worse and i dont know what to do. please just anybody, just give me an idea of what could be the reason for why my baby is getting sicker and sicker despite all the improvements.
temp rn is 38,3°C basking spot, 33°C cold side, the hide is usually between 31-33°C, at night it can drop to around 29°C but it's been staying higher than 30°C due to the heat.
i have a baby sulcata tortoise that's been unwell for a while now; it sleeps all day and only moves when i wake it up for a soak and put it in front of the food dish, and when it walks it's really shaky and wobbly, like its legs are too weak to support its body.
the biggest problem is that all this began ever since I started making improvements to my tortoise setup/routine. it used to live in a very dry 20% humidity place with no water dish, a spot light for basking and a coil uvb light, soaking routine was 3 minutes every other day and it's diet was only pellets (recommended by the person i bought it from); now the humidity stays between 85-95% (sometimes drop down to 70-something during the night), it has a water dish it can get in and out off easily, a regular round bulb for basking and a 10.0 t5 ho uvb tube mounted at around 30cm from the surface, i soak it 20-40 minutes every day, it's diet is wheat grass, soaked timothy hay, katuk, bok choy and pellets sprinkled with calcium and multivitamin powder twice a week (we just bought and are growing bermuda grass, zoysia grass, hibiscus and white clover), i also put a cuttlebone in there 24/7, and it even has an outdoor 200x100x50cm enclosure now (i brought it outside for the first time last week, though i'm hesitant to bring it out again as it's very unwell right now). although we still need to improve it's indoor enclosure (right now is a 90x40x40cm glass enclosure with a screen covered with tin foil to hold humidity, we are upgrading it to a 150x60x60cm closed chamber as soon as possible), i like to think that we've made some wonderful improvements in the past few weeks.
although, like i've said, our baby isn't looking better, rather it's getting worse ☹️. before it was already a little inactive, but it would still poke it's head out and walk around for a bit, now it sleeps ALL day. before when i wake it up and it wants to go back to sleep, it would walk back to the hide, but now it just sleeps where i put it. before it could still walk around with just a little difficulty, but now its legs are so weak that it cant even properly stand up. before it still eats regular, yesterday was the first time it skipped a meal!
to say i'm worried would be an understatement. i'm so confused and frustrated, everytime i change something i thought to myself "this is it, it will definitely get better", but in turn it's just getting worse and worse and i dont know what to do. please just anybody, just give me an idea of what could be the reason for why my baby is getting sicker and sicker despite all the improvements.
temp rn is 38,3°C basking spot, 33°C cold side, the hide is usually between 31-33°C, at night it can drop to around 29°C but it's been staying higher than 30°C due to the heat.