My Bell's hingeback is not eating, She only eats red peppers and only small ammounts. I have offered mixed salad leaves, dandelions leavs and other weeds flowers, grasses, chopped mixed veg, chopped fruit apple, orange, cucumber, strawberries, plums, snails, eath warms chopped chicken.
She drinks a lot of water and has been wormed.
She is kept in a tortoise table 4'x6' hot spot of 90F cool end 72F she spends most of the day in her hide and is most active in the early morning and late afternoon.
No stools have been seen in three weeks , her movements are very watery with bits of undigested food in it.
Any ideas to get her feeding.

JohnG

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hi

do you know if its wc or cb as this would start us off

if i was you i you get it wormed and checked for protazoas

but untill you can get that done make sure you give it plenty of baths in luke warm water everyday for two weeks and carry on offering the food you have stated

when it goes to the toilet in the bath just check its poo see if there is anything other than undigested food in it

chris

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hi Chris

Q do you know if its wc or cb as this would start us off
A My guess is wc though it is very clean. A guess at age 3-4 years old.

if i was you i you get it wormed and checked for protazoas
i am phonong for an appointment with my Tortoise vet tomorrow as my guess is protazoas as she has been wormed twice in four weeks.

but untill you can get that done make sure you give it plenty of baths in luke warm water everyday for two weeks and carry on offering the food you have stated
I am doing this as a matter of cause.

when it goes to the toilet in the bath just check its poo see if there is anything other than undigested food in it
I use a microscope and cannot see anything. Iam used to this as I was a lab tech.
JohnG

Try the T-Rex tortoise diet.

Ed

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what sp is youer hingeback
hingebacks love mushrooms

I try to keep clear of dried foods as they are not good for tortoise generally.
She is a Kinixys belliana (Bell's Hingeback Tortoise). I'll try the mushrooms.
Today I chopped some food up very fine and mixed it together, she just turned her nose up at it totally.
See what the vet says on Wednesday.

JohnG

go to a specialist reptile vet not a normal vet please

Hi Andy,
She is a herp vet and specialises in tortoise.

JohnG

Your mistake.

I can't express how well many of the different species of tortoise have done so well on the diet I'm using for them... about 15 species. Some... considered very delicate.

Many have been on the diet for 8 years now.

I've had Spekii and belliana... same tortoise on the diet.

Ed

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i agree with not using the dry dite i was told weeds are 99%better by users on her ei would stick to the fruit and things your feeding atm
i had some i tried mine with em when i got them and they turned their nose up oh and it smells of dog food eww!