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My sisters red foot tortoise is completely inactive, it just buries itself and goes to sleep. Its been doing this for weeks now, we have to pick it up out of its hole to feed it and sometimes it will barely eat anything.
Its about five inches and we bought it from Petsmart.
She isn't shy at all normally.
She is in a 30 gallon aquarium with peat moss for substrate
She has a 75 watt basking light and a Reptisun 10.0 fluorescent tube.
and then at night she has a 75 watt CHE.
Under the basking light is about 93 and where she sleeps, on the cold side of the cage is 70-73.
I keep her peat moss moist.
Should I increase humidity to about 70% and increase the temps ?
This may be a dumb question but is she just hibernating ?
I will post a picture of her aquarium
I circled her in the photo so you could see her.I pick her up and placed her there.
Does she need a bigger enclosure? She I just move her outside permanently in a fenced area with a warm house ??
I don't think this much inactivity is normal. I mean doesn't move at all for days. Not even for food
Its about five inches and we bought it from Petsmart.
She isn't shy at all normally.
She is in a 30 gallon aquarium with peat moss for substrate
She has a 75 watt basking light and a Reptisun 10.0 fluorescent tube.
and then at night she has a 75 watt CHE.
Under the basking light is about 93 and where she sleeps, on the cold side of the cage is 70-73.
I keep her peat moss moist.
Should I increase humidity to about 70% and increase the temps ?
This may be a dumb question but is she just hibernating ?
I will post a picture of her aquarium
I circled her in the photo so you could see her.I pick her up and placed her there.
Does she need a bigger enclosure? She I just move her outside permanently in a fenced area with a warm house ??
I don't think this much inactivity is normal. I mean doesn't move at all for days. Not even for food
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