Recent content by chin_lee

What do you use for Burmese star's water containers? Do you have the water containers that are big enough for the torts to walk and sit in? Or just enough for them to drink from and you take them out to separate area for water baths? I am looking for something that I can buy for this purpose...

I was watching Keenan camp video and he raised the temp 24/7 and held the tort nose down to let any fluids drain from lungs and nose. It worked for one of my stars. He also did injections of antibiotics but try the first part and see if it improves

I will suggest the following: 1] change bulb to mvb that has uvb and put it closer to a corner 2] remove everything in there and fill it with 1 inch of substrate that's been recommended in previous posts. As it gets older you will need more substrate and bigger enclosure but for now that will...

Picked up this for my torts outdoor enclosure. Now on sale at costco for 90.

Found another worm fresh out in the torts bath. Any idea on the type? Round, hook?

The grocery stores in my area doesn't sell dandelions and endives are terribly expensive. Over the winter and into the spring, I'm finding myself resorting to Costco size bags of romaine for my torts. Yes I am aware they are not as nutritious as many other wild greens I can find in the summer...

And it's hermanns torts. I usually feed commercial foods with romaine kale in winters. Then grape leaves and dandelions in summer

Sorry error on my part on the med. Its actually Fenbendazole that I administered. I dose 10% Fenbendazole in liquid suspension at 1ml per 1000 grams and I soak it into partially moistened mazuri pellets for each tortoise. Apparently its very hard to overdose this med Is it possible that its a...

Found this dried up work in my tort enclosure. I had fed them Levamisole last week so I'm assuming this was expelled from the med. Is anyone able to id this worm?

If you want it to eat mazuri, smear some on the cactus that it loves. Or cut up the cactus and mix it up with a couple pellets if wet mazuri

Mix new foods in small amounts with foods that it already likes. It's a long gradual process for most. But for some it's an instant hit

Good to hear it's doing better. Which instructions did you try to get it better? Following up on previous advice to turn tort head down because they can't expel the fluids with coughing sneezing or blowing their noses so use gravity. I give them a very warm bath and then turn them upside down...

When my tort had runny nose I followed what kenan showed in one of his videos in which he held the tort upside down with head pointing down to drain the fluid build-up. I did that with my tort 2x per day with elevated temps and it recovered nicely.

actually that was why i posted my initial question. A few times i've noticed that the males had bark and wood debris on their extracted organ and they were walking around with their rear ends elevated. When I picked them up and noticed their organs out all dirty, I rinsed them off in their water...

Just be careful .....often they will bite too. Obviously don't bite it back but you can use your fingers to pinch it's scales on the legs to immitate a bite. Your torts are much bigger than mine though.....just make sure you can win that fight otherwise it's gonna come snapping and ramming you...