First of all, for the new people here, for captive tortoises the ideal calcium:phosphorus ratio of the foods they eat is 2:1. The foods containing these should be the main thing that you should be feeding the tortoise, while the maximum safe ratio (mainly for the wild and the tortoises kept...
Damn, there is one thing I have forgotten to mention (but my first reply hasn't appeared yet): feed the tort some food high in fibre, bananas work wonders for this. This will smooth up the digestion of the tortoise, most probably fixing the problem.
Normally you should be very careful with calcium/phosphorus supplements to not go overboard with how much you're giving to the tort. The calcium:phosphorus ratio for torts is 2:1 and should be fed regularly food that respects this ratio. It is good to diversify and giver the tort irregularly...
As far as what I've read in the other thread you posted, first of all be sure the substrate doesn't retain moisture (this could keep matters going worse) and remove the water dish before the lights are you in the night for the tort. Like this you will not offer her the possibility to sleep in...
You could try to feed the tort high moisture food for a while, see if that changes anything. Also try to feed it a bit of garlic to rule out the possibility of worms existing. Keep in mind that food normally stays in the digestive tract of the tort about 48 to 72 hours.
Take it to the vet but also feed the tort natural dewormers. Garlic works best because that is by far the strongest natural dewormer, even used in humans.
Both need to eat food with extra calcium, especially the one on the right that seems like the it has the shell becoming transparent. What would the vet tell you is also essential.
Surely as other people have said in this thread, your pet store chains there in US no longer use Rainbow, but I can imagine that here where I live, although it's tonnes easier to smuggle the animals from Africa, there is no doubt there are also private companies breeding animals, especially...
It could stay under supervision, just leaving it outside of a proper enclosure (especially one that prevents the tort to dig underground and escape) is very risky, tortoises move much faster than one could think they do, especially when they're small.
Sure, lassies, the internet must have gotten to me because unless it's specified, normally you'd assume all are guys.
I'll be moving to Canada, Quebec to be more precise, so far I've heard nasty things about bringing in a tortoise, apparently because of some fabulous salmonella scare. Main...
Good day lads, I've recently bought for myself a tortoise, sadly though I've been trying for a while to determine what sort is it (will post a picture in this thread as soon as I'll be able to). Mainly my purpose for posting this was to discuss with the obviously much better-informed lot in this...