cmtortoise
New Member
Hi there everyone,
I have been reading all your posts for the past two months and decided it was time I get an account. About 2-3 weeks ago I got my baby leopard tortoise, Freddy, from tortoisesupply.com….let me tell you, this lil dude is like having a newborn baby the amount I worry about him!
So pretty much ever since I got him, he closes his eyes a lot! Even when he’s walking around the enclosure he will have his eyes closed sometimes. However, when I take him outside in the natural sun to graze and exercise he opens them. Also, if I mist him down or bath him he opens them, not to mention hen baths/soaks for 10-15 min daily and I mist down his enclosure several times a day plus always making sure his hide is humid with damp moss.
Anyways, there isn’t any discharge or cuts and when he has them closed or open they look like normal baby tortoises when they have their eyes closed or open cause I looked up pictures online. But I don’t know what to do…is this normal?
By the way, this is his enclosure…it’s about 2.7 ft long and 1.5 ft wide and I’m using a Zoo med heat lamp which has UV/UVB. I have worked so hard and I am a college student so I don’t have tons of money but I finally saved up to buy a leopard and all the supplies after months of budgeting. I love the lil guy to death and I’m just worried he’s sick but he eats fine, has tons of energy, and isn’t scared of me in the slightest…it’s just the eye thing that’s making me all anxious. He’s like a Helen Keller tortoise sometimes actually alot of the time…Help!!!
I have been reading all your posts for the past two months and decided it was time I get an account. About 2-3 weeks ago I got my baby leopard tortoise, Freddy, from tortoisesupply.com….let me tell you, this lil dude is like having a newborn baby the amount I worry about him!
So pretty much ever since I got him, he closes his eyes a lot! Even when he’s walking around the enclosure he will have his eyes closed sometimes. However, when I take him outside in the natural sun to graze and exercise he opens them. Also, if I mist him down or bath him he opens them, not to mention hen baths/soaks for 10-15 min daily and I mist down his enclosure several times a day plus always making sure his hide is humid with damp moss.
Anyways, there isn’t any discharge or cuts and when he has them closed or open they look like normal baby tortoises when they have their eyes closed or open cause I looked up pictures online. But I don’t know what to do…is this normal?
By the way, this is his enclosure…it’s about 2.7 ft long and 1.5 ft wide and I’m using a Zoo med heat lamp which has UV/UVB. I have worked so hard and I am a college student so I don’t have tons of money but I finally saved up to buy a leopard and all the supplies after months of budgeting. I love the lil guy to death and I’m just worried he’s sick but he eats fine, has tons of energy, and isn’t scared of me in the slightest…it’s just the eye thing that’s making me all anxious. He’s like a Helen Keller tortoise sometimes actually alot of the time…Help!!!