egyptiandan said:Yvonne is rightwhen on antibiotics your tortoise needs to be kept at 30C day and night, not any warmer and not any cooler. You also can't keep your basking light on all the time. Your tortoise needs time to sleep and have all visible light turned off. To keep him warm during the night you can use a ceramic heat emitter (which is basicly a ceramic light bulb, giving off heat but no light).
A feeding tube is actually a good idea, as when your tortoise starts to feel better it can eat normally with the feeding tube still in place. It causes less stress than opening his mouth everyday to force feed him.
Danny
Basking light is on 12hrs a day, 8am - 10pm and i have an infra red night heat lamp. should i put his regular food out atm or leave it till he's a bit stronger? Ive bumped his cool end up to 80 now
