Was he in direct sunlight, though? An air temperature of 70 is much different than a group temperature of 70! (The air would be cooler, if the group temp is 70) My greek had bubbles from overheating occasionally when he was much smaller. Best thing to do is make sure to keep them in a nice shady...
Luckily there doesn't seem to be any vitamin A toxicity going on. Her activity definitely picked up, she's eating a little, and I've seen her try to use her back legs a few times. Unfortunately there has been no repeat in urinating or defecating, so we're back to the vet for xrays tomorrow.
She...
My female Hermanns, Falafel, is actually super active in comparison to my Greek! She is housed outdoors during the nice months, and this time of year she spends a lot of her day climbing the sides of her pen, and wandering around. She digs quite a bit, too. She comes out around 9am when I'm...
I think you may be right about that! I hadn't looked very critically at sex, yet.
We are back from the vet! Frankie (name she was surrendered with) has eliminated, so the vet isn't concerned enough about kidney stones to do an xray at this point. We'll revisit the possibility in a few weeks at...
Luckily, I have ceramic heat emitters in spades. I soaked him, and got him some fresh greens & a bit of chicken I pilfered from a coworkers lunch. Best I can do before I take him home tomorrow evening! Including some pictures, one of the enclosure he was surrendered in.
Like Pearly - I suspect that the lack of function is due to MBD. He will very slightly pull back if I tug on his feet, but nothing like on a healthy tort. As to the age - are they slow growers then? I've just measured, and it's only slightly under 6" SCL.
I was planning to use the sun, as it's...
Thanks for the advice! I am not planning on keeping him/her, I just want to get it on the road to recovery. When it first arrived at the shelter, it had quite a large amount of clear ocular discharge, which makes me worry about URI.
I tried to show in the pictures, it's not the whole plastron...
Hi friends and neighbors! It's been ages (years) since I've last posted, which in a way is a good thing? All has been status quo with personal torts, so I haven't had much need to post. I have a male greek tortoise, and a female Hermann's. They are peachy.
I am the foster coordinator of my...
I slept on a futon for years. In my opinion, it's nice to have as a day bed, but not a primary one.
Think of how frequently people buy new beds in comparison to how much they use them...save yourself some rough nights and sore backs and put out the dollars for a very nice bed, I think.
I changed my name! Went by "Katie" short for Katherine for the vast majority of my life so far, and a few years back I decided to switch to my middle name, Alexis. A lot of close friends and family will be awful to you about it, but if you are persistent, they will adjust. I would say I am...
Is 65 the lowest it gets, including nighttime? If so, he should be fine being out the whole while. They can tolerate some low temperatures, provided they have the ability to warm back up within a reasonable time-frame.