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Here you go. He cooperated a little better for a photo this time :)

Hello all! Does this look like the beginning of an ear infection or did he just scrape it on something? He’s still active and eating like normal. Thanks in advance!

Hi all - Looking to get some thoughts on some pink spots that I just noticed on Norbert's plastron. I couldn't really figure out based on where it is if it's just new growth or if we need a vet visit. We have had him about 4 yrs, and there have been no recent changes to his setup. Let me know...

My tortoise, Norbert, had several months where he was not really eating much. It took two rounds of treatment for pin worms, but he's been back to eating like a horse! Another round of treatment might do it for Arthur, too. While he didn't have an appetite, I found some success with hand...

Vet called and Norbert has worms :( we start him on some meds tomorrow. Hopefully after his treatment and with his upgrades to temp and humidity, he'll be back to his old self and eating everything in site!

Thank you, everyone. The temperatures that I gave were the range that he has in his enclosure, with the highest being the basking temp (95) and the lowest being the cool side (70). I did manage to get the basking temperature up to close to 100 today. The pet store was out of lamp stands (so I...

Thank you for the response! I mixed in some water with the substrate so it's nice and moist, and I'm working on increasing the temps. His lights and heat are on timer so he has darkness at night to sleep. He did walk around a bit after his soak today instead of heading straight to burrow or...

Hi All, We've had our little tortoise, Norbert since the beginning of November. He used to eat like a horse but has barely eaten over the past several weeks. He has also started sleeping a lot more. He'll go for several days without getting up (we do take him out to soak at least every other...