Heather Guerrieri
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My 3 month baby Sulcata (his name is Reptar) is acting funky. Just 2 days ago, he was eating perfectly fine. He was running around, eating like normal. He has done this before and I figured out it was his eyes. When they would only open after a bath, I got some eye drops and then I ended up buying the Terramycin and he went back to normal the next day.
He becomes sluggish or doesn't move at all for a good 3 days or so. So I have to put him close (not directly under because he doesn't even do that during his normal days) to his heat lamp during the day and then the CHE at night.
I'm not sure if this is normal every now and then or if something is going on. It scares me so much.
Things you want to know:
-Temps are: 100-105° (°F) under basking lamp, coolest corner is about 75° but he never goes over there unless it is during the day. 80° under the CHE at night.
-Humidity is 60-80% at all times.
-He's in a 40 gallon Rubbermaid tub with a handmade chicken wired wooden lid. <very well made and sturdy.
-I've been putting 2 blankets over the top at night to keep the CHE working throughout the enclosure.
-I got him from Kamp Kenan who had the exact type of enclosure (Rubbermaid tub).
-I have a water dish and he gets a warm bath once a day.
-I feed him a lot of grasses from the yard, about once or twice a week he gets ZooMed Natural Grassland Tortoise Food (the pellet looking stuff). He eats a few bites but then wants grasses and other green stuff instead, but still offered. He eats some stuff like the cactus and other approved plants/leaves that are on the good list on Tortoisetable.uk?
He gets fed once a day plus has grass in there during the day while I'm at work just in case he gets hungry.
-The Reptisun 100W heat light is on for 14 hours. The Reptisun 10.0 UVB light is on for maybe 8 hours. The long UVB light is on for about an hour or so during the day while he is eating.
-He has pooped yesterday and once today in his water. He never poops in there for me. He peed on me today while we were basking out in the real sun today.
-I use the reptibark, coco coil, and the moss mix as a substrate. I keep it moist. I put the bath water into the tub as well as spray it at least once a day in the morning.
-The bath water and all water is filtered.
-He doesn't burrow yet. He doesn't even try to dig. He just lays around. He doesn't even get under the moss... he lays on top of it.
I am deeply in love with tortoises and turtles. Always have been since I was a kid. He's my first tortoise. I feel like I did a LOT of research before I bought him and I am constantly looking up dos and don'ts.
Do Sulcatas do this? Have days they don't want to eat or even move?
He becomes sluggish or doesn't move at all for a good 3 days or so. So I have to put him close (not directly under because he doesn't even do that during his normal days) to his heat lamp during the day and then the CHE at night.
I'm not sure if this is normal every now and then or if something is going on. It scares me so much.
Things you want to know:
-Temps are: 100-105° (°F) under basking lamp, coolest corner is about 75° but he never goes over there unless it is during the day. 80° under the CHE at night.
-Humidity is 60-80% at all times.
-He's in a 40 gallon Rubbermaid tub with a handmade chicken wired wooden lid. <very well made and sturdy.
-I've been putting 2 blankets over the top at night to keep the CHE working throughout the enclosure.
-I got him from Kamp Kenan who had the exact type of enclosure (Rubbermaid tub).
-I have a water dish and he gets a warm bath once a day.
-I feed him a lot of grasses from the yard, about once or twice a week he gets ZooMed Natural Grassland Tortoise Food (the pellet looking stuff). He eats a few bites but then wants grasses and other green stuff instead, but still offered. He eats some stuff like the cactus and other approved plants/leaves that are on the good list on Tortoisetable.uk?
He gets fed once a day plus has grass in there during the day while I'm at work just in case he gets hungry.
-The Reptisun 100W heat light is on for 14 hours. The Reptisun 10.0 UVB light is on for maybe 8 hours. The long UVB light is on for about an hour or so during the day while he is eating.
-He has pooped yesterday and once today in his water. He never poops in there for me. He peed on me today while we were basking out in the real sun today.
-I use the reptibark, coco coil, and the moss mix as a substrate. I keep it moist. I put the bath water into the tub as well as spray it at least once a day in the morning.
-The bath water and all water is filtered.
-He doesn't burrow yet. He doesn't even try to dig. He just lays around. He doesn't even get under the moss... he lays on top of it.
I am deeply in love with tortoises and turtles. Always have been since I was a kid. He's my first tortoise. I feel like I did a LOT of research before I bought him and I am constantly looking up dos and don'ts.
Do Sulcatas do this? Have days they don't want to eat or even move?