Leopard tortoise not eating and losing weight.

[Mrachilds]

My 10 month old leopard tortoise is not eating and is losing weight. I’ve had it for about 6 weeks. The last two times I’ve weighed him he was 85g and then 82g. I’ve attached some pictures of the tortoise table. Is there anything that you can see that I’m doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Blackdog1714]

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[Yvonne G]

Your baby needs to be kept in a warm, humid environment. With that open top table there's just no way to keep the temperature up at around 85F degrees. They don't eat unless they can get their inner core temperature up to 85F degrees or more, because the food doesn't digest when they're too cool and just sits in the stomach and rots. It's very important to get that enclosure warmed up or your baby is going to die.

Figure out a way to cover the whole thing. Build some sort of framework that you can drape a shower curtain over. Be inventive, but warm that baby up. Then get rid of the dry shavings substrate and add something you can moisten.