Oh no! Obviously that’s my worst fear for him. I’ll move vet visit up the priority list and thanks for the link. I can say he doesn’t show any problems to my untrained eye with walking. Gets up quickly on all fours, moves all of them evenly, and is surprisingly fast.
It’s a 100w mercury vapor bulb and the basking spot is at 90 degrees. Dryness overall makes sense. The setup he is in is a nice tortoise table, but the substrate (seems to be a mix of soil, sand, and maybe peat moss?) is rock hard and totally dry so I’m guessing maybe there’s not been much...
Got this little guy, a Western Hermann’s tortoise, and I have some questions about whether his shell is healthy or not. I’m a one-time tortoise owner so I’m not experienced in knowing what problems look like, but I don’t think I see any pyramiding. However, I’m concerned about two things: 1) the...
My Eastern Hermann’s tortoise is about a year old and has recently started eating Timothy hay. I’ve always left a bunch of it in his enclosure, and until about a month ago, he basically ignored it. But he’s suddenly developed a taste for it and now will eat it just as readily as his daily spring...