kohailovely
New Member
Hello, I purchased a two year old horsefield tortoise yesterday, after picking him up we travelled 6 hours to my house via train, something which the breeder said was fine.
After introducing him to his new home we gave him some food which he ate and then he scurried over to a hide close to the heatlamp and fell asleep, four hours later we turned off the heatlamp and moved him to the cool hide, this morning we turned on the heatlamp and he was still asleep in the cool hide, worried about him, my wife picked him up (which woke him) and put him in the heat, he walked back to his heat hide without eating or drinking and has been sleeping for 6 hours
My wife and I are concerned that the stress from yesterday may have negatively impacted him and we're worried we're doing something wrong.
He has a plate of food, a hot area, a cool area and a bowl of water, is there anything we should do to get him used to the new environment or should we just leave him be?
After introducing him to his new home we gave him some food which he ate and then he scurried over to a hide close to the heatlamp and fell asleep, four hours later we turned off the heatlamp and moved him to the cool hide, this morning we turned on the heatlamp and he was still asleep in the cool hide, worried about him, my wife picked him up (which woke him) and put him in the heat, he walked back to his heat hide without eating or drinking and has been sleeping for 6 hours
My wife and I are concerned that the stress from yesterday may have negatively impacted him and we're worried we're doing something wrong.
He has a plate of food, a hot area, a cool area and a bowl of water, is there anything we should do to get him used to the new environment or should we just leave him be?