tortoise-n00b
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My tortoise is about one and a half years old. He was the biggest out of the four--three males and one female. The female used to always hang around him.
They became too big for the box so I moved them to an enclosed area I have outside. I still have a UV lamp running in case they need it and heat lamp for their sleeping and spot.
Gradually the second largest became bigger than him, and he became #2. The female then started hanging around the new largest male. Around this time I noticed he started to eat less. At this point he is now the smallest of the males and is about the same size as the female as everyone else kept growing.
I also notice that he likes to stay in one corner of the enclosure, facing the wall. Even at night when it gets cold here in the winter and I put him inside the warmed box, he will sometimes still come outside and stand in that corner facing the wall.
I don't know if he is depressed because of losing the female, or maybe he was already eating less before the female incident happened and that is why he got smaller as everyone else kept munching away and kept getting bigger.
He still eats but not that much. Please help.
They became too big for the box so I moved them to an enclosed area I have outside. I still have a UV lamp running in case they need it and heat lamp for their sleeping and spot.
Gradually the second largest became bigger than him, and he became #2. The female then started hanging around the new largest male. Around this time I noticed he started to eat less. At this point he is now the smallest of the males and is about the same size as the female as everyone else kept growing.
I also notice that he likes to stay in one corner of the enclosure, facing the wall. Even at night when it gets cold here in the winter and I put him inside the warmed box, he will sometimes still come outside and stand in that corner facing the wall.
I don't know if he is depressed because of losing the female, or maybe he was already eating less before the female incident happened and that is why he got smaller as everyone else kept munching away and kept getting bigger.
He still eats but not that much. Please help.