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    Urgent Help, new owner, baby Indian Star Tortoise

    So, an update on our little guy. I have been working lots of shifts at work to try and keep it afloat during covid, so this update is later than I had wanted. So we took everyone's advice to the extent that we have been able. I got him a new humidifier, some new, less wrong (?) lights, and a...
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    Urgent Help, new owner, baby Indian Star Tortoise

    Sorry, I was excited and realized I did not directly answer your questions. So the heating is a 150 watt ceramic heat emitter and a regular 65 watt incandescent for his basking spot. He also has a bar UVB bulb at the back (10). At night he is just above 80, during the day his basking spot is in...
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    Urgent Help, new owner, baby Indian Star Tortoise

    Thank you so much for the help. Yesterday, for the first time since sunday he took a few bites of food. he just pushed around the lettuce for 20 mins trying to eat it and eventually I picked him up and fed him 3 mazuri pellets from the tip of my finger. At least it is a step in the right...
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    Urgent Help, new owner, baby Indian Star Tortoise

    Hi there, thanks for the response, here are the pictures taken during his bath today.
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    Urgent Help, new owner, baby Indian Star Tortoise

    Hi folks, This forum was recommended to me by people on reddit's r/tortoise and I am really desperate for some help. This is a long story, so I will try to give all relevant detail: I decided that a tortoise would be a good pet for us. We wanted something beautiful that didn't need lots of...
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