Ok so I need help. My Exotic vet isn’t open for the next few days and I’m freaking myself out. When I purchased my tortoise back in February/March, I did a lot of research on how to care for baby leopard tortoises. Because it’s a baby I kept everything basically bare: just food/water bowls, a hide, and the substrate. My tortoise was doing really well. I wasn’t home the last two days and when I got home today, my fiancé informed me that the tortoise hadn’t moved, eaten, or went in the water. That it had stayed in its shell, in one spot. And that when he picked it up, it’s shell felt soft now. I then held it and I felt it too, the shell was a bit soft. Diet has always been lettuce, the pellets you soak in water, the little fruit/veggie cube things, and the occasional berry. It has a basking and UV light for the lighting. It’s only on during day time hours. Is my tortoise dead??????
here’s some pictures my fiancé took of the tortoise
here’s some pictures my fiancé took of the tortoise