My husband and I both work at a pet store and we have a lot of different types of snakes at home but are fairly unfarmiliar with tortoises. About 2 weeks ago a woman came into the store and left a box there where we later found she had abandoned what looks to us like a sulcata. he seems to have some pyramyding and we knew he was most likely very poorly cared for. We took him home and got him on a good diet and a nice warm environment. He also has a upper resp inf. He was eating very well at first and his upper resp was improving very quickly for the first week. Now for about 5 days he has not been very active and also not eating as well. His upper resp is now getting worse and today when I soaked him i can see that around both sides of his neck and on his knees and ankles etc he has very very raw open skin. I have some terramycin ointment but he won't let me put it in these areas. Any suggestions and also what to try nest for his Resp inf? I know he needs to go to the vet but we are both currently working 60 hrs a week and it will be a few more days before I can get him in. Just wondering if there was anything i could try at home until i can get him in? I would be able to get pretty much any antibiotics that would be needed for him from our store's vet, but don't know what to ask for. He is not a herp vet so he wasn;t much help when he looked at him either. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, we don't want him to die or get worse over the next few days. Thanks
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Jeff West

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