Hello, as I posted before, I adopted a leo in June(I believe). It was surrendered because it had severe metabolic bone disease(the shell was as soft as a hard sponge) and had stopped eating for 2 weeks. Well Spotty has been doing much better, eating tons, and even growing quite a bit...
As you may remember, I adopted Spotty a few months back(at 1 and 1/2 years of age) with severe metabolic bone disease, pyramiding, and he had not eaten in 2 weeks. Here are some updated pics!
Hello, this is Tyler from Indiana again. I adopted the MBD tortoise from Purdue a couple weeks ago. Spotty is doing much better, I am on vacation for three weeks and he has been able to go outside everyday for a few hours. His shell is harder and he is starting to gain weight. Occasionally I...
Is there a good way to prevent mold from growing on my cypress mulch? I recently put in sphagnum peat moss with cypress mulch on top of it, I noticed that there is some mold growing under the water dish when I take it out to change the water. There doesn't apear to be any mold anywhere else as...
Hello, I recently adopted a young(1.5yr old) leopard tortoise that has MBD. I really have to work with this tort to get it to move around and eat. I would like to get another tort that is more active and won't need the prodding to move/eat and won't be so shy. In your opinion, which species...
Hello, I adopted a sick 1.5yr old leopard tortoise on Monday(first time owner). It had metabolic bone disease from no UV light and a diet of only Romain lettuce. When it was donated to the place I adopted it from it hadn't been eating for two weeks and only weighed .43kg. I finally got it to...