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Enclosure advice!! I am looking to upgrade my baby leopard tortoises habitat! He is currently in a plastic tote which has worked wonderfully and I have been able to regulate the temp and humidity in it great but he just needs something a little bigger. Any suggestions would be a huge help!!!

Yes definitely do the soaks everyday it has helped Tremendously for my little guy he is doing a lot better! He is a lot more active and eating the only thing he is still struggling to gain weight so we are taking it one day at a time.

Hey all, can baby tortoises get worms or Parasites that make it hard for them to gain weight? My baby tortoise is eating pretty good he gets a variety of greens daily and a softened Mazuri every other day he is about two months old and he just hasn’t gotten above 30 grams. He did have some...

I have been weighing him like twice a week and so far he has gained three grams since the last time I weighed him

Yes he is eating all of that!

Hey I just wanted to hop on here and give you an update!! I know he isn’t out of the woods by any mean but I have been giving him those soaks in the Pedialyte and baby food carrots and just in the last three to four days I have seen a huge improvement he is active his eyes are open he is eating...

Thank you I will just keep trying with him and hope he pulls through and buy from better breeders next time now that I know how they are started is so important

Thank you for the tips and I will do everything I can to give him a fighting chance

And ever since we got him he hasn’t really been very active like I have seen other baby tortoises act

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Hi, yes he lives alone. And I actually weighed him today he weighed 29 grams. He is around 8 or maybe 12 weeks. I took him to the vet a couple weeks ago and they gave him calcium shots and antibiotics because he was lethargic and his eye where staying shut and his shell was a little soft and...

Hey everybody so I think my baby leopard tortoise has hatchling failure syndrome unfortunately and my question is is there anything I can do or is it just a waiting game for these guys? his habitat temps are 40-80% humidity throughout the day and his cold temp never drops below 80 degrees and...

Okay I will do that thank you

Hey so just one more question I made some changes to his enclosure I got his substrate damp changed the bulb I was using to the 45 incandescent flood bulb and got a new thermostat and but a top on the enclosure so it was a little more enclosed to keep in the humidity but to keep the humidity up...

I do only have one of those stick on thermometer/hygrometers is there a good one I can pick up at the store or is it better to order one?

Thank you so much both of those were a big help!

I am using zoo MED forest floor and the bulb is a ceramic zoo med basking lamp

The substrate is zoo MED forest floor it’s not damp should it be? The low temp is around 75 he does have a humid hide we got him from tortoise town we have had him over a month and his eye just started to get bad

Hi all so I have a baby leopard tortoise and one of his eyes is having trouble opening up the temp of his enclosure is 85 to 90 degrees and the humidity is around 70-80 % it does seem to help when I soak him for about 15-20mins he is still eating and is active is this a common thing that happens?