Mastering Tortoise Care

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>3-4 weeks</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>3-7 degrees</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>Defecation, urination, and weight</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fridge</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It may experience dehydration</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dehydration</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sunken eyes and dry mucus membranes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stomatitis and rhinitis</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Doxycycline</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wake it up immediately</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>3 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide hydration</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The pre-hibernation steps for tortoises include daily changes in light patterns and temperatures, starving them for 3-4 weeks, providing oral and tube feeds, deworming if necessary, bathing them daily in warm water, and reducing temperatures over 3-4 weeks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The recommended temperature range for hibernation in tortoises is between 3 and 7 degrees Celsius.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bathing tortoises daily in warm water before hibernation allows them to absorb water from their bladders and replace it with metabolic byproducts, preventing toxic buildup in their bloodstream.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The key factors to consider when determining if a tortoise is ready for hibernation include a full clinical exam, checking for hibernation problems, checking for worms, assessing hydration and weight, checking for signs of systemic disease, and conducting a VD radiograph to check for MBD, bladder stones, and eggs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mediterranean tortoises should be hibernated, but tortoises under 1 year old should not be hibernated.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shed - this is the one that ends up at the vets the most with problems. Loft or cellar - similar risks to being outside - can be too warm and not properly hibernated. Rats are also major problems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Need to look for evidence of defecation, urination and weight. If they defecate they must wake them up immediately, this means that their starvation period was not adequate, meaning that they went into hibernation with food in their GI tract. Urination also need to wake up immediately - because if they have urinated there is no water supply for them. Need to keep an eye on weight, if they loose 10% of body weight from when they went into hibernation, they need waking up as they are loosing too much weight.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To wake them up, they need to be under a heat lamp and UV strip bulb. Needs to be bathed in water daily.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dehydration which is linked to hyperuricemia (where uric acid builds up in the blood stream) which leads to kidney disease. Their eyes will be sunken if dehydrated, can also observe mucus membrane for if they are dry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The common diseases are herpes viruses and mycoplasma. Herpes viruses: Respiratory virus that causes stomatitis, can also cause rhinitis and ulcerative skin lesions and will develop into pneumonia if not treated and ultimately death Herpes virus - untreatable. Mycoplasma viruses: Respiratory bacteria - blowing bubbles from the nose, ocular discharge, runny nose, conjunctivitis, eyelid oedema, depression, anorexia.</p> Signup and view all the answers