Lorenzooo96
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I tried hand feeding her and it's working, she's eating now
Oh what a gorgeous little tort you have. GOD bless. Take good care of here and make sure she's warm and has enough humidity. I live in Jordan where the climate is very DRY. I give Oli my beloved Greek tort a soak in warm water each and every day. I spray his enclosure with water and mix the substrate with my hands. Hope that helps.I'm gonna read the links you sent me, thanks for all the answers
I'll post more photos so you can see how big she is and all. She should weigh around 80g, tonight I will be able to know the exact amount though.
Do you think she might really be 2 years old or not?
Also, I did not notice that she's already pyramiding, how can i keep her more humid? I soaked her already in water today as she was a bit dirty
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I do not think that 10 minutes are enough. I soak Oli for about 25-30 minutes and keep checking the temperature of the water. Once I feel it's cooled down, I immediately pour some warmer water into his bowl, or change the water. This applies nowadays with extremely cold weather here.I soak her in water every day too, but not for too long because I'm scared it might get too cold after a while. So I would say I soak her for about 5-10 minutes a day, I hope it's enough
Thank you for all the advice you guys are giving me
I will try to keep this thread updated writing down her weight and see if she's actually growing.
I really hope she'll start doing better than how she was in that pet shop, it's pretty awful how little she grew in 2 years in the conditions she was
She may not eat if her core body temp it too low. Depending on what your ambient room temp is I bet you are dealing with huge heat/humidity loss on this tort table. Cover the top! Also I'd add some nice plants for her. Youngsters like to have places to hide and being exposed on barren table maybe making her feel vulnerable. As for food, I have some experience in nursing sick non-eating baby back to health and made a thread on it. It's for the RF baby but with feeding babies omni or herbivorous bunch of this same principles apply. Just keep trying different things and don't give up until she catches onto eating just like my sickly picky eater did. This is him now at 1yr 8months, weighing almost 2lbs, 6.5 inches carapace... my "little monster Tucker" anyway if you are interested in some practical feeding tips on different ways that may work in getting yours to eat, look up my feeding thread by SEARCH feature, just type "Pearly's tips on feeding picky eater", lots of step by step instructions and lots of pictures. Hope you find those helpful. Good luckThe low temperature is around 20 C because its very distant from the heat lamp. But I noticed she stays under her hide until morning.
I tried to feed her again and she's not eating.
I hope that the Saran Wrap does something and keeps the heat in, you can see in the picture how much it covers the enclosure.
Oh Yvonne, thank you so much! I really have to do the "foruming" on my desk top bcs the phone app just doesn't have some stuff available I tried attaching links on my phone and ipad and ... didn't get anywhere with it. I am not that technichally inclined to begin with. Too old for this@Yvonne GThis is Pearly's thread:
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/pearlys-40-gal-tank-covered-top.139373/
A tortoises nares (nostrils) lead to the top of the mouth, not to the back of the throat, so when a tort drinks it is not uncommon for water to bubble out of the nose.One more thing, when I soak her in water, is it normal if when she's nose breathing, some bubbles come out of the nose? it only happens when she breathes out strongly, not normally. I don't know if it makes sense. I always check the temp of the water an I make sure it's not cold. View attachment 198177