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  1. milesm916

    Redfoot making coughing/throat clearing noise?

    As a follow up, he passed a pretty big B.M tonight and is eating like crazy, he's having some tortoise food from the pet store which isn't the healthiest I know but he's obsessed with it, and I think eating something soft helped push whatever may have been stuck out of his throat? He seems much...
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    Redfoot making coughing/throat clearing noise?

    As far as substrate I use coco soil as the coco fiber he had before was really stringy even after sifting it and getting caught in his mouth/I was scared he'd swallow it. For food he typically has greens and fruit, nothing too firm for him bc he is still fairly small as the place I had gotten...
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    Redfoot making coughing/throat clearing noise?

    So recently my juvenile redfoot has started making a strange sound every so often that worries me- like a cough or a throat clearing type of sound. He does it a few times every few hours and then stops, but this has been going on on-and-off for about 4 days now. He doesn't have any other...
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    Vertical/ramp climbing for enclosures?

    So I have a juvenile redfoot, and he loves to climb. Outside and indoors, all he wants to do is climb and explore, which is good, but he keeps accidentally flipping himself over in his enclosure which scares me because I have to be gone for work during the day, and can't stay awake 24/7 to keep...
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    Possible respiratory infection in redfoot tort?

    You actually replied right as I offered him some green bean mush and he's eating it, I think it's stinky enough for him to recognize it as food even with his nose all stuffed up. I've been putting his vitamins in his water the last few days and that seems to be helping him a little too. He has...
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    Possible respiratory infection in redfoot tort?

    Turned them off and have been misting his enclosure super thoroughly and he does seem to be doing at least a little better; do you know of any better alternatives to a humidifier that I could use while at work, since I can't be misting his enclosure every 2 hours while I'm gone? as an update...
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    Possible respiratory infection in redfoot tort?

    I'm trying to make him an appointment just to be safe, in the meantime I'll make those changes to his heat and humidity. He's up and moving and drinking a lot so I'm hoping that's a good sign?
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    Possible respiratory infection in redfoot tort?

    Ok good to know, food variety is a big sore spot with him since he seems to be able to detect even microscopic amounts of food he doesn't like. I'm hoping that with him not eating for a little bit, he'll be less picky when he does want to eat again. Been trying to integrate more and more fresh...
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    Possible respiratory infection in redfoot tort?

    Will go get a new thermostat/humidity gauge today, I was wondering if these were any good because they don't seem to change at all, even when the temperature has definitely changed. As far as the water dish, he had a different one before, but had too much trouble climbing in and out which is...
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    Possible respiratory infection in redfoot tort?

    I was trying that, and it seemed to work for all of 5 minutes before he was picking the greens out of his fruit mush. I'm hoping that once he's feeling better he'll maybe be more open to eating other stuff since he'll be up for eating in general again? is there anything I can do in the meantime...
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    Possible respiratory infection in redfoot tort?

    His enclosure stays at 80-85 degrees all day. I'll grab some pictures of his enclosure in a minute, it's a 40 gal w coco peat substrate (he had coco fiber before but I switched it out of concern he was eating it). His diet right now consists mostly of rehydrated fruit and fresh banana as it's...
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    Possible respiratory infection in redfoot tort?

    So I got a redfoot recently and he was pretty much fine up until about 2 days ago, when he stopped eating, and started sticking his neck out much further than usual to breathe/was breathing heavier than usual (a combination wheezing/clicking noise?) He's been up and moving and drinking lots of...
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    New baby, just some fun pictures of him!

    Just some pictures of Murphy, my new baby! These are from his free roam time in the evenings, when he's the most active!
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    New red foot tortoise seems nervous+not eating?

    Will do! I'm so relieved that he's eating now, I was really worried because he was both not eating at all, and not moving at all for long periods and I was concerned they were connected. Since he ate though he's been zooming around his vivarium like crazy lol
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    New red foot tortoise seems nervous+not eating?

    Exciting update: I got him some rehydrated fruit this morning after his soak and he's eating it!! I'm hoping this means he's finally comfortable enough to start eating regularly and we can try adding more nutrients to his diet little by little to round it out. In the meantime I'm just overjoyed...
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    New red foot tortoise seems nervous+not eating?

    Update: he still isn't eating. I fixed his setup so his temp and humidity are spot on, and he seems at least a little more comfortable around me/my house as he loves free roaming time. I've been soaking him twice every day, and then offering food, and he still just completely ignores it (both...
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    New red foot tortoise seems nervous+not eating?

    As an update, while he was soaking this morning I switched back to two smaller water dishes so he has more room, and he seems to like that setup much better. He's been a little more outgoing in even just the last day, as he seems to really enjoy having free roam time and has even been letting me...
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    New red foot tortoise seems nervous+not eating?

    Thank u for the advice! I'm in the process of having a larger enclosure shipped up here so I'm replacing it in the next month or so with one much much bigger. I am going to switch back to the two smaller water bowls since he doesn't seem to care for the bigger one, I had switched them originally...
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    New red foot tortoise seems nervous+not eating?

    Sorry for iPhone quality photos,, his enclosure isn't super giant, as I'm in the process of having a larger one shipped up here that has clamps for the lights so they can be a little higher elevated. I just switched his smaller two bowls out for a large one with steps since he likes to soak so...
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