Cedar or Pine chippings/shavings have serious risk of impaction on Tortoises what does impaction mean?

Answer 1

When the passge through the gut and bowel becomes blocked.
Silica sand is another substance that can cause this. Also dehydration and feeding the wrong foods can cause impaction.
one of the best substrates for totoise or lizards is calcium sand as this will desolve in water.

Answer 2

Cedar and Pine are TOXIC to reptiles, small animals, even humans. The phenols cause respiratory problems and enlarged livers.

Impactionis where the animal swallows some bedding and it becomes lodged in the intestine and the animal cant poop and needs to have it surgically removed.

Answer 3

Impaction is basically when feces do not pass correctly and harden within the animal.

Wood shavings are pretty poor choices of substrate for tortoises- there are problems with poor traction (which screws up physical development), inhaling the dust (lung and respiratory problems), eating the shavings (impaction), and more.

Better choices for tortoises include pea-sized gravel, clean soil mixes, etc.

Check out the articles at http://www.austinsturtlepage.com and http://www.tortoise.org for other ideas.

Answer 4

cedar is toxic and deadly to ALL reptiles DONT use it, impaction is where they rep eats the something it cannot digest and it needs to be surgically removed.

Answer 5

clogging up their intestines, causing constipation or even death
this is not good bedding for turtles, newspaper or dirt would be better

Answer 6

i'm not TOO literate but my guess is that impaction ought to be substituted with -"hazard to health"!

Answer 7

It means that they cannot poop because it gets stuck inside.

Answer 8

severe constipation