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nikita
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hello everyone,
my name is nicki and i live in the uk, i have a female herman tortoise called shelly who is aprox 1 yr old, she lives in a 4ft tortoise table, with a seperate hide area, she has a heat lamp which reaches about 32c and a uvb strip lamp. for the past month she hasnt been herself at all, she sleeps most of the day and has very watery eyes which i have to bath every morning with cooled boiled water as she cant seem to open them in the morning, sometimes i have noticed what looks like little bubbles on her eyes i sprinkle calcuim powder on her food every other day, she is feed a mixture of greens, not iceburg lettuce or cabbage and occasionaly we give her tomatoes or melon, as its winter at the moment she isnt eating any weeds and doesn't go outside. another thing that worries me is she hardly drinks a thing. we bath her in warm water once a week (should i be doing this more)
i really dont know what to do to get her better, there isn't a vet where i live that has ever dealt with tortoises!
i hope somebody can help as i really don't know what to do next
my name is nicki and i live in the uk, i have a female herman tortoise called shelly who is aprox 1 yr old, she lives in a 4ft tortoise table, with a seperate hide area, she has a heat lamp which reaches about 32c and a uvb strip lamp. for the past month she hasnt been herself at all, she sleeps most of the day and has very watery eyes which i have to bath every morning with cooled boiled water as she cant seem to open them in the morning, sometimes i have noticed what looks like little bubbles on her eyes i sprinkle calcuim powder on her food every other day, she is feed a mixture of greens, not iceburg lettuce or cabbage and occasionaly we give her tomatoes or melon, as its winter at the moment she isnt eating any weeds and doesn't go outside. another thing that worries me is she hardly drinks a thing. we bath her in warm water once a week (should i be doing this more)
i really dont know what to do to get her better, there isn't a vet where i live that has ever dealt with tortoises!
i hope somebody can help as i really don't know what to do next