Ash&Tort
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- Mar 13, 2015
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Hello Everyone,
I'll have had my little Tort for a year in mid February, and its been smooth sailing up until last night. I had a plastic bin in his enclosure as a hide. Well I guess the little stinker is big enough now that he can push the bin around, because when I came home from work, it was flipped up and melted to his ceramic heat emitter! Obviously i changed the heat emitter, took out the house and changed all the substrate just in case there was any plastic. I looked him over and there didn't seem to be anything on him.
Since then though, he hasn't come out of his shell. I took him to the vet today because I'm a paranoid Tort mommy, and his lungs and everything are fine. The vet said that he's hiding because he's stressed out and to turn up his heat a couple degrees, continue his normal soaks to keep him hydrated, and try to tempt him with a piece of strawberry to get him to come out. I also found a hide made out of stone today to replace the plastic one I threw out.
So I'm wondering if anyone has any additional advice to help me calm him down so he'll get back to his normal, active self. Thank you!
I'll have had my little Tort for a year in mid February, and its been smooth sailing up until last night. I had a plastic bin in his enclosure as a hide. Well I guess the little stinker is big enough now that he can push the bin around, because when I came home from work, it was flipped up and melted to his ceramic heat emitter! Obviously i changed the heat emitter, took out the house and changed all the substrate just in case there was any plastic. I looked him over and there didn't seem to be anything on him.
Since then though, he hasn't come out of his shell. I took him to the vet today because I'm a paranoid Tort mommy, and his lungs and everything are fine. The vet said that he's hiding because he's stressed out and to turn up his heat a couple degrees, continue his normal soaks to keep him hydrated, and try to tempt him with a piece of strawberry to get him to come out. I also found a hide made out of stone today to replace the plastic one I threw out.
So I'm wondering if anyone has any additional advice to help me calm him down so he'll get back to his normal, active self. Thank you!