HELP!! is my land tortoise going to make it??

Question

i bought 2 tortoises about a month ago

ok i'll go by their names to make it easier to explain. spunky was slightly bigger than saeed, anyway spunky kept growing while saeed didnt!

hes now barely eating, wont drink any water, barely opens his eyes + he cant crawl well and his shell is SOFT!!

i provide them a lot of veggies mostly lettuce and some fruits every once in a while and they live in a tank with heat light and i take them out sometimes to take a walk in the yard because their tank isnt that big..

what can i do to help him!!

PLEASE ANSWER!!

Answer 1

he probably doesnt have enough calcium try giving him a calcium block and put him in the sun for about 5 mins. hope i helped

Answer 2

a soft shell is part of metabolic bone disease, it can be caused by incorrect diet or not getting enough essential UV do you have a UV lamp if not you need to get one, also you need to feed more calcium, if they live in a tank it is unsuitable for a tortoise as it can be too humid and not enough air gets in, a tortoise table is a lot better for them here is a site that you can see what to feed the type of tortoise you have http://www.tortoisetrust.org/ , a diet of mostly lettuce is not suitable for any tortoise, but you do need to get some calcium you can buy a supplement for tortoises it needs to be the one that has a 2:1 ratio of calcium and phosphorous or you can buy a cuttle fish from any pet store and grate it on the food, but you need to feed more calcium and the shell will harden up if it does not them you need to get the tortoise checked over by a reptile vet, a tortoise needs quite a bit of space the floor spac eof any pen should be four times the size of any tortoise kept, you have a sick tortoise who needs to see a vet for treatment or it could be fatal for him, hope saeed recovers best of luck.

Answer 3

You should take him to a vet's. He is lacking in vitamins and calcium and will probably be prone to illnesses if he doesn't  eat soon.

Answer 4

Ditto what fruit cake said.

To add to it you said fruit.

What kind of land tortoise?

Sulcatas being a very commonly bought or rescued tortoise do not eat fruit.

Their systems do not digest it well.

A prickly pear fruit every so often but nothing like strawberries, bananas...

Put the food dish near the heat lamp to get it warmed up to eat.

UV/heat lamps, fresh dark leaf greens, OUT of the tank into a sweater box or tort table.

You can buy mixed salad greens chop them up small, cut up a little timothy hay add to it.

Here is a good site for care

http://www.africantortoise.com/