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Sick redfoot?

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Posted by: mekotessa at Sat Apr 5 21:02:34 2008  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mekotessa ]  
   

I have two red foots for about two years now. One is a male and looks really healthy and the other is a female and has not grown at all since I got her. She also has always had really dry skin and is really small! I took them to the vet and the vet informed me that the male was only about a few years or so old and the female is closer to seven or eight years old. The vet also said that she thought the female was malnourished as a juvenile and will probably never grow, but besides that they both looked healthy. I keep their humidity at about 80 percent and feed them a variety of foods (they both eat like pigs and are fairly active). My question is this: Do you really think my female is healthy? She looks so pathetic and dry compared to my other red foot. I attached some pictures so you can see how small and dry she is. Also, i added some of my male so you can see how different they look. The vet was definitely not an expert on tortoises (we live in a VERY small town) so let me know what you think. sorry the pictures are so big...i dont really know what im doing.



Thanks!



Here is my big healthy male:



My male with my little female:



how small she is:





and her dry skin:


   

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