I am confused on the ambient light. My UVB bulb emits light. What is the goal of the ambient light? Plus the basking bulb will emit light? Is that not good enough?
Thank you for the info. The UV bulb is an HO. My CHE is my basking bulb. I’ll add another heating element to the cool side to get it to 80 degrees and get a higher wattage for the hot side.
I have a pancake hatchling hatched late Feb I think. I have owned a couple months now and she has been sick for three weeks or so. She looks very dry and has a lot of what looks like hard water around her mouth. Her eyelids are swollen. I have taken her to a very knowledge reptile vet who said...
His shell wasn’t sharp either but was putting enough pressure to cause wounds. I am happy to report that he went under anesthesia and had a drastic shell trim and is doing great now! The wounds are definitely healing.
I work at a vet hospital so my vet took a look at him. We thought it was the shell but then couldn’t figure out the one on top of his leg. I’ll take him to the specialist is Roseville. Davis isn’t seeing anything right now. They cancelled my neurology appointment for the tortoise I posted about...
I recently adopted a 11 year old MBD sulcata on Saturday. Today we noticed he has wounds on both of his front legs. One is on the underside of his arm and the other two are on the side and top of his other arm. It looks as though the skin has been pealed away. Has anyone seen this? He is now on...
Yes there is a severe indentation there. The previous owners had two and painted one red and the other blue. The pink you see is the red paint that the rescue had been slowly buffing off
Yes he moves normally most of the time. I personally haven’t seen one yet as I am picking him up in a week or so. The rescue did tell me that you can tell one is coming on because he gets a burst of energy and runs around is pen in a circle.
At the rescue he is on dirt and does the same movements. If it is not a seizure, could this be a different neurological issue? I am hoping to pick him up in a week or so. I will try to gather more video. I do plan on taking him to our local vet school which is the top in our country to get their...
I love this rescue and the kind lady who runs it. I just want to be sure there isn’t something medically I could fix. I want to be able to give him the best life possible. But if that means having a couple seizures a day then I will obviously love him just the same.
The zoo has a pretty bad reputation. I am surprised it never got shut down honestly. The group rescue is Placer County Tortoise Rescue. If you search his name which is Loki, there is a video a couple posts down. The rescue took him because I guess the zoo didn’t have an outdoor area for him either.
The rescue posted a video on their Facebook page but I can’t seem to figure out how to save it to my phone. I am not sure who diagnosed him but they called it epilepsy which I find kind of garbage. He basically becomes very neurological and bobbles his head severely. It’s like he can’t control...