This morning as soon as the lights came on my baby was out and about waiting for his food. A few hours later when I came to give him his soak he wasn't moving, totally stiff, and completely unresponsive.
I am completely heartbroken and utterly confused. It has been exactly one month since i brought him home and I have been doing my best to raise him right in accordance to what I've read on this forum. I don't understand, he had been eating and drinking well, gaining weight steadily. I was keeping him in a W2'xL4'xH2.5' closed chamber. Temps were: 105f basking, 90f hot side, 82f cool side, and 82f night time. Humidity generally stayed around 83-85%, never dropping below 75%. For heat I used an 100w powersun mvb 18" above the substrate during the day and two che's a 60w and a 100w on a thermostat at night. UV was provided by the mvb as well as a reptisun 10.0 tube bulb on the cool side of the enclosure. Substrate is eco earth with sphagnum moss dispersed in different places throughout. Diet was dandelion collard greens, spring mix and occasionally zoo med grassland tortoise food.
The only behavioral change that I had observed is that last night fairly close to lights out he was running around like crazy, almost out of control. However, he did eventually calm down and was behaving normally this morning.
Please, if anyone has any insight into the how and why this may have happened I need to know
I am completely heartbroken and utterly confused. It has been exactly one month since i brought him home and I have been doing my best to raise him right in accordance to what I've read on this forum. I don't understand, he had been eating and drinking well, gaining weight steadily. I was keeping him in a W2'xL4'xH2.5' closed chamber. Temps were: 105f basking, 90f hot side, 82f cool side, and 82f night time. Humidity generally stayed around 83-85%, never dropping below 75%. For heat I used an 100w powersun mvb 18" above the substrate during the day and two che's a 60w and a 100w on a thermostat at night. UV was provided by the mvb as well as a reptisun 10.0 tube bulb on the cool side of the enclosure. Substrate is eco earth with sphagnum moss dispersed in different places throughout. Diet was dandelion collard greens, spring mix and occasionally zoo med grassland tortoise food.
The only behavioral change that I had observed is that last night fairly close to lights out he was running around like crazy, almost out of control. However, he did eventually calm down and was behaving normally this morning.
Please, if anyone has any insight into the how and why this may have happened I need to know