Around 3 weeks ago, i bought a 5 years (around) old female STAR tortoise that was kept in a box with several others with anything to eat but wood shavings. She ate and pooped clean wood shavings which demonstrated that she really didnt have anything inside her intestines! I brought her home, gave her greens to eat and she looked perfect, eating like crazy , walking and gaining weight. Two weeks after she arrived home, she started to make some awful sounds, opening her mouth like if she was choking! After the crisis, she started eating and wandering around looking very normal and happy again. But today she had another crisis! Besides the gaping, her nose, mouth and eyes were watery, and she stretched her neck and could not breath without making awful sounds! I thought that she was going to die! I quickly put her under a hot lamp and waited. After a few hours, the nose, eyes and mouth dried and she started eating like crazy and behaving as nothing had happened! She is not lethargic or depressed!
What is going on? Should i start giving her antibiotics? I used to give Sulfametoxazol with Trimetoprina to my dogs. Where i live, here in Malaysia, there is no Baytril. Are tortoises allergic to Sulfa?
Thank you very much for your attention!
Flavia
Ed