The Tortoise Table

Hi all just a quick update he’s still his usual self still very active but isn’t eating or opening eyes yet, taking him to the vet today they want to do a blood test, can still see him blinking under the eye lids, I’m kinda of the opinion his eyes lids have fused together, I’ve used the artificial t...

I’ve tried all sorts with trying to get him to open his mouth I’ve even tried with dandelions, only time opens his mouth for abit is when we bath him but it’s literally a split second, unfortunately I think we may have to take him back to the vet this week if he doesn’t start eating something.

Yea the hand feeding just doesn’t seem to work unfortunately, we keep bathing him every other day in the Luke warm water and just let him soak in it for 20/30 mins that way I’m sure he’s taking some water in, I’ve told the vet he’s really not eating but they said it’s best to get the antibiotics don...

Morning all I just bathed him for 20 mins and injected him in his arm with the antibiotics, seems to have took away that energy he normally has when he’s being handled, he’s just sat there now under the heat lamp looking around, I think it’s right that antibiotics can do this since they’re quite har...

I was told not to feed him cucumber, but when we have been trying to hand feed him he just doesn’t take anything we’ve even tried little treats like strawberry and he just doesn’t take it. It’s quite worrying actually, we think he drinks in the bath yes sometimes he puts his head under abit then it ...

We’ve also been dropping these in the water when we bath him since he doesn’t really want to eat, I assume when they dissolve the he can drink the vitamins in then too ? Just trying to think of any possible way I could get more nutrition into him.

With those artificial tears could you recommend a brand or something that makes the correct type stand out ? Or can I just go to a pharmacy and tell them ?

I’ll be sure to get a lamp shade sorted, if I’m ever doing stuff with the enclosures like cleaning I tend to just turn it off for a few minutes so I’m not blinding myself it is one of those Curley tube bulbs yes, the heat bulb is only 25w it’s the exoterra brand if that helps.

On the box of the bulb I bought it says to roughly keep the bulb at 8 inches for 27°c so I’ve got the bulb at 6 inches above and it seems to maintain 29.7 to 31.5 with the glass on the other side slightly open for cleaner air so I’m hoping this is suitable.

When I put the temp gauge under the light directly it did seem to significantly rise by a degree so I’ve pulled the light up abit higher just to avoid the light being to intense on him, right now the temp is 31 but slowly dropping since I moved the light up I think it’s just going to be abit fiddly ...

Once we get his eyes open and hopefully eating more we’ve decided we’ll invest into a proper tortoise table for better air flow for now I’ll use the advice you have gave regarding keeping the glass open and blocking it so he doesn’t get out

This is his enclosure

Also just to make everyone aware when I pick him up he is very active he constantly moves his little legs popping his head out like he wants to be put down so it’s not like he’s sluggish or lacking in energy, I’ve just put him under his heat lamp and uvb lamb to hopefully warm him through as he’s be...

Hi Nina I emailed you a photo thank you

Sorry guys it won’t let me upload photos but I’ll do my best to describe the enclosure with the details you need

He’s eating sometimes but not very often probably eats about 2 cherry tomatoes worth a week we swap his food to have variation aswell but again doesn’t eat much, I believe it’s because his eyes are closed and he can’t see the food, again the vet prescribed some medicine over the next 3 weeks so I re...

The vet we use is called ashleighs in Manchester Whalley range and yes the doc said the tort must have heat in a basking area 35-38°c but I’m being told that’s to much and the ambient temp should be around 22-25°c and a cool area of 20°c we turned the lights off last night and the temp stayed at 20°...

We’ve had him for 4 years now, we often let him out when it’s warm enough during the day it also helps shorten the length of his nails, recently he’s took a turn for the worse his eyes won’t seem to open the vet say it could be an infection and have given us antibiotics which we started today so we’...

At the moment the UVB light alone seems to keep the basking area at 28-30 so is that ideal ? On the cool end where we keep the bowl of water it tends to stick at around 20ish then at night we turn the lights off. The vet we spoke to said that we should keep him 35-38°c which is ideal temp to help ab...

Hello I’m looking for some advise, we’ve got a Horsefield tort and I’m not exactly sure what’s the best temp to keep his enclosure at, currently it’s at 28/30c but when we put his basking light in it can go up towards 43c which I think is abit to much so I don’t leave it on for long we’re getting a ...