Yes a babyfood soak is when you add the babyfood to the soaking water. Usually you use the bright orange ones or a fruit one for hingebacks.
chairman said:One of my home's hingebacks came to me acting much the way yours is, only yours is more active. My tortoise either did not move or managed to move without making footprints and he made it back to the same spot every time (I smoothed his soil so I could track him). It took him 4 months before he ate anything for me even though I offered him all of my other home's favorite foods. I gave him bird-vitamin soaks every day (this was pre-TFO for me, didn't know about babyfood soaks then) to get him through. That tortoise is still alive and well just about 10 years later. I want to say it was zucchini that got him eating.
Tortoise said:I have lost sleep over these tortoises and never stopped thinking about them,
Tortoise said:Then I better make my human clan some decent food-haha!!helps to have supportive family as i often hear "Mom can we eat this or is it for tortoises?"-yikes!!
Sorry about that male. I was pretty certain he wouldn't survive after you posted those pics of him.Tortoise said:Thanks Jacqui
for your continuing support, it really knocks your confidence when you lose one and you find yourself second guessing a lot.
I do feel she has been the better of the two right from the start and she moves around her enclosure fairly frequently-There is a small patch of drywall not finished and I have to peek through there to observe her.
I have lost sleep over these tortoises and never stopped thinking about them, I will continue on and hope this female is going to continue to gain weight and eat. It would be very difficult to treat her for anything as she is so shy.
I still wonder if she has parasites but I guess a weight gain is positive as is her eating.
Thanks again-you are so helpful!!