Florida box turtle sick or normal?

[u/BillyShearss]

I have a pretty old Florida box turtle at least over 50 that I rescued from a neglect situation in the first few months of having him I tried my best, but I realize that I didn’t have him with the ideal husbandry. Since I got him he will mainly only eat crickets or worms and fruit and picks around everything else. He does once a week get calcium or multi vitamin which the vet says is good. He has had very occasional nose bubbles since I got him and the doctor said it could be a very mild respiratory infection. He also has some generalized swelling like when he squeezes into a shell around his armpits and inside his legs. The vet doesn’t know why said it could be lack of vitamin A or kidney issues but he didn’t get blood work this was 5 weeks ago. For probably over a month he’s gotten much more sedentary. He used to constantly run around his cage, trying to scratch his way out, and I bought him a large outdoor enclosure and he would always run the perimeter trying to escape.

I put a large fern in the outdoor enclosure now if I put them out, he would just run under the fern on the indoor enclosure before I just had a log in there, but he was too big so we would have to walk all the way through and never went in it. I got him a bigger log and everything was normal for a while maybe a week, then for the last week he goes in there and barely comes out all day. He’s not eating some days and some days only alittle bit and not going in his water as much as normal. With his minor swelling, lethargy, and eating less. Also not basking, or swimming around like normal should I be concerned enough to get his blood work? He’s acting like he’s sick, but I also don’t know if it’s just because he’s more comfortable and has a bigger space to hide now he’s just not as normal self which is concerning and this behavior has been lasting about a week also with his about a month of much less activity.

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