Zackhally
New Member
Hi!
I have a Herman’s tortoise who is only one year old, and we currently bathe him once every two days, as advised. The water is always no higher than his chin, and the water temperature is always the same, as it comes out of a controlled tap. We have had him for 8 weeks now, and he normally loves bath time, he’ll stick his head up for “boops” and loves drops on his head. However, today, we gave him a bath under his normal conditions, after 5 minutes he was almost jumping, he was very erratically stretching his back legs and falling onto his front legs, almost jumping and running around the bowl at the same time. We immediately took him out and place him back into his enclosure. Since being in his enclosure, he has rested with his head fully in his shell, which is not normal behaviour for our tort, and has rarely moved. Has anyone experienced this before or will be able to advise me?
I have a Herman’s tortoise who is only one year old, and we currently bathe him once every two days, as advised. The water is always no higher than his chin, and the water temperature is always the same, as it comes out of a controlled tap. We have had him for 8 weeks now, and he normally loves bath time, he’ll stick his head up for “boops” and loves drops on his head. However, today, we gave him a bath under his normal conditions, after 5 minutes he was almost jumping, he was very erratically stretching his back legs and falling onto his front legs, almost jumping and running around the bowl at the same time. We immediately took him out and place him back into his enclosure. Since being in his enclosure, he has rested with his head fully in his shell, which is not normal behaviour for our tort, and has rarely moved. Has anyone experienced this before or will be able to advise me?