I've recently moved my tortoise (A bells hingeback) to a new enclosure (That uses a mulch/soil mix as substrate), but what I've noticed is that my tortoise digs down whenever it sleeps, and the day after he is super dirty (Face, bottom of his shell, legs etc)
My question: Is this unhealthy for him? Can he get any sort of fungi on the bottom of his shell like this? Or shell rot.
I'm assuming that in the wild, tortoises get quite dirty sometimes, especially African ones that live in humid forest areas.
My question: Is this unhealthy for him? Can he get any sort of fungi on the bottom of his shell like this? Or shell rot.
I'm assuming that in the wild, tortoises get quite dirty sometimes, especially African ones that live in humid forest areas.