Kerrybaker
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Hello, Iv recently bought a young tortoise just under 1 year old, we think it's a she but obviously too young to tell yet. She seems healthy and happy except she sleeps a lot and we have noticed she likes to walk around with her eyes closed, feeling her way with her nose. Thinking she had substrate in them we have been given her regular baths each day in warm water and used a cotton bud to very gently clean her eyes which she is happy to let you do, she will then open them, has no probs opening them fully, and they seem fine, slightly watery but I'm guessing that's from the bath. She has a small appetite so I'm ensuring she is getting plenty of water.
Substrate used is top soil, diet of wild flowers and weeds cleared by tortoise trust. UVA and UVB Spotlight, nice large open tort table and she roams around the garden in good weather, monitored obviously as she is so small.
We have another horsfield pebbles, he lives separately outside and have been quarantineing her just incase.
Do you think a trip to the vets is needed if there was an infection there would be bubbly nose probs breathing ect surely?, I'm wondering if torts can be blind?
Substrate used is top soil, diet of wild flowers and weeds cleared by tortoise trust. UVA and UVB Spotlight, nice large open tort table and she roams around the garden in good weather, monitored obviously as she is so small.
We have another horsfield pebbles, he lives separately outside and have been quarantineing her just incase.
Do you think a trip to the vets is needed if there was an infection there would be bubbly nose probs breathing ect surely?, I'm wondering if torts can be blind?