So the damage has been done... I suppose soaks and such want to do any good, does it?
Daily soaks will help keep your tortoise hydrated while it is not eating and it will help to keep flushing the system.
So the damage has been done... I suppose soaks and such want to do any good, does it?
Daily soaks will help keep your tortoise hydrated while it is not eating and it will help to keep flushing the system.
Very good advice here Geng! Please try to stay positive. I understand your frustrations as I also love my tort and want the best for him
I'm sorry you are going through this. You obviously care so much for your tort. I'm crossing my fingers that all is ok! Wishing you and your baby a speedy recovery!
She was drinking more the usual. She peed when I put her back.
Greg
Greg, as You're more experienced now - any idea was it RI and was it the antibiotics helping? Or was it rather something else?
Ours is experiencing same - she's quite passive now (about 3 years old, still eating on acceptable levels, gaining weight, her stool/pee looks completely normal by amount/content BUT) she used to noisily run around at least 2-3 hours a day, now the only "activeness" is when she's out for the food - then sleeping 23hours again. Her shell color is still nice/bright, BUT the under-shell color seems of more greenish shade than the healthy-yellow she used to have...
We used to keep two tortoises in same container, then this one started biting the other one too harsh (peeling pieces of skin on other one's legs to leave the bleeding spots), so we've separated them (keeping this one in the original container with original light/etc). She was active-runner before the separation but became idle-sleeper after. We even tried rejoining them for couple of days, but she is still passive. No signs of RI (except maybe rapider-than-usual breathing intensity, or might be just from being-too-tired).
Any advise? (I don't trust the vets we tried before, because our very-1st tortoise died from mis-diagnosis at early age which could've been prevented by just soaking her every day instead of once per 3 days - turned out she had clogged stool and just needed more hydration to fight it, but vets couldn't diagnose that even after the xray)
Greg
Greg, as You're more experienced now - any idea was it RI and was it the antibiotics helping? Or was it rather something else?
Ours is experiencing same - she's quite passive now (about 3 years old, still eating on acceptable levels, gaining weight, her stool/pee looks completely normal by amount/content BUT) she used to noisily run around at least 2-3 hours a day, now the only "activeness" is when she's out for the food - then sleeping 23hours again. Her shell color is still nice/bright, BUT the under-shell color seems of more greenish shade than the healthy-yellow she used to have...
We used to keep two tortoises in same container, then this one started biting the other one too harsh (peeling pieces of skin on other one's legs to leave the bleeding spots), so we've separated them (keeping this one in the original container with original light/etc). She was active-runner before the separation but became idle-sleeper after. We even tried rejoining them for couple of days, but she is still passive. No signs of RI (except maybe rapider-than-usual breathing intensity, or might be just from being-too-tired).
Any advise? (I don't trust the vets we tried before, because our very-1st tortoise died from mis-diagnosis at early age which could've been prevented by just soaking her every day instead of once per 3 days - turned out she had clogged stool and just needed more hydration to fight it, but vets couldn't diagnose that even after the xray)