Constipation in star tortoise
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You can offer some iceberg lettuce, or soak for about an hour or get a laxative from a Vet
Golden Greek Tortoise 567
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Feed wet foods like aloe vera, optunia cactus pads, and cucumber. Keep soaking every day and eventually, your star will poop.
Can you suggest any laxative
Well, frankly, I could. BUT...you or I wouldn't know the dosage, and it 'could' harm your tortoise if a wrong dose. So we have suggested several alternatives. But I did neglect to tell you a mineral oil enema would grease up the cloaca and could get things moving again. Not in his mouth but, up his butt. How big is the tortoise? I used 2 mls for a 4 lb tort. If yours is a baby, no enema at all. Rub the cloaca with a greasy finger and sometimes you might stimulate the animal to poop. Could be pooping where you didn't see.
Thanks, I will try
Try aloe and cucumber, 10 days is a long time to have not gone. Is it possible your tort is eating it while you are not around? Do not give your tort any over the counter laxatives. If this does not resolve itself in the next few days it would be a good idea to get a vet appointment to make sure there is no blockage.
Rodriguez Chelonians
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Tortoises are known to eat their poop. The recommend foods are great natural laxatives (opuntia cactus and aloe) as well as high in water content. With these and soaking daily you should see some feces pass. If you don’t see any poop in a couple days I would highly recommend taking it to a vet for a quick radiograph to see what the GI tract looks like. How is your tortoises behavior and environmental temps?
Already consulted two vets, they just charged fees given injection and x-ray is also done, now the second vet said she is in hibernation. What a joke?
Rodriguez Chelonians
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What did the radiographs show? What injections? Any feces today?
natural environment is around 30 degree Celsius, less active and not eating normal diet. Already consulted two vets and X-ray is also done.
No blockage, vet given laxative injection. No feces today
Just recently (within 2 months) my 20 yr old tortoise was acting very sick, not eating and lethargic. I was sure he was going to die. I thought he had a bladder stone like my big Sulcata. So off to the Vet we went. $250. later, she tells me the xray showed that he was full of poop. So for several days I tried all the home rem
