janessad511
New Member
Hi!
I have a 2-3 year old Hermann’s tortoise and I’ve had her for almost a year now. She’s always been so well behaved and loved keeping to herself. She’d come and go out from under her log, to her basking area, food dish, burrowing etc. This past week, she has been obsessed with one particular corner of her tank and she won’t stop scratching. She had never ever been a scratcher and she is barely interested in basking or burrowing. No changes in appetite. I feel like I have tried everything-more baths, providing a dig box (which she does the same thing), different foods, plants in her tank, letting her walk around to blow off some energy, taking her on a car ride (she used to love those), putting black paper on the side. Nothing is working and I can’t stand to see how stressed she is. I want to cry. She has never been like this. The only true change I’ve made is slowly turning the light timer back to adjust to fall/winter times. Right now, her lights go on at 6:45 and lights out at 7:15. I turn it back every Monday and my goal is 10 hours of light for fall/winter time, but I didn’t want to turn it back super fast.
I have a 2-3 year old Hermann’s tortoise and I’ve had her for almost a year now. She’s always been so well behaved and loved keeping to herself. She’d come and go out from under her log, to her basking area, food dish, burrowing etc. This past week, she has been obsessed with one particular corner of her tank and she won’t stop scratching. She had never ever been a scratcher and she is barely interested in basking or burrowing. No changes in appetite. I feel like I have tried everything-more baths, providing a dig box (which she does the same thing), different foods, plants in her tank, letting her walk around to blow off some energy, taking her on a car ride (she used to love those), putting black paper on the side. Nothing is working and I can’t stand to see how stressed she is. I want to cry. She has never been like this. The only true change I’ve made is slowly turning the light timer back to adjust to fall/winter times. Right now, her lights go on at 6:45 and lights out at 7:15. I turn it back every Monday and my goal is 10 hours of light for fall/winter time, but I didn’t want to turn it back super fast.