hi,
i'm new here to this forum.
i have a 1.3yo hermann tortoise (eastern) and she is called shelly (shelBy in case it turns out a boy)
she is 7 cm and weighs 72 grams - which is pretty good on the jackson scale
i have quit alot experience with reptiles and worked in a Zoo some years ago, but im not fully sure...
she has eaten from the beginning i had her like a champ and i bath her every other day.
she poops and urinates like it should everytime i bath her.
she adores paprika and i feed her good veggies.
i sprinkle her food twice a week with vitamine supplements (D3) and calcium powder, so her shell is not lumpy and hard.
but all of a sudden she doesnt want to come out of her soil (as she digs herself in for sleeping..) and has hardly no appetite anymore.
so i dig her up, put her in a bath, feed her some paprika (that she eats a tiny bit while normally she cant stop eating..) and put her back under the sunspot (32 - 35 dgrs) ..but she immediately dig herself in again!
also she rubs her right eye occasionally while she doesnt appear to have a swollen eye and its wide open.
her eylid might be a tiiiiiiiiny bit bigger on the right side where she rubs but its not abnormal and i can see her pupil very clearly.
she doesnt have a runny nose, her eyes are opened, she poops/pees...but she dig in and doesnt sunbath any more.
i dont understand why..cos normally she sunbaths all day long.
sorry for the long story...
heres a couple of photos of her and her enclosure (the ramp is removable and the enclosure is shut with locks - it is there for when its summer and she is alot bigger, so not for now...but just showing what i have build)
its planted with live plants and top soil/rocks.
6'x3' both ways with 2 stories for climbing excercise.
thx guys