My tortoise

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Tortoise   My tortoises back legs have been swollen and red/purple shade and she/he hasn't been moving for a few days. Normally, we feed the tortoise cabbage or lettuce. She is about 5-6 years old and has has no problems ever before. I'm scared she's dead but it doesn't smell in the house. Please help. Also, she has a large terrarium with dirt for tortoises from the pet store and a food basin and big water tub. Also a hollow half log and two tortoise lamps. She is most likely a Russian tortoise

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I normally would just reject this question outright, because you clearly didn't follow any of the directions. This tortoise is dying if she isn't already dead. The diet you were feeding her first of all is atrocious, so you apparently have done no research whatsoever on these animals. This tortoise should live multiple decades, but you will kill her in 5-6yrs. Yes...it is a Russian tortoise. Frankly, if you didn't know that for SURE, then you have no business keeping the animal.

The only solution here is to see a vet IMMEDIATELY. Not tomorrow, not next week. There is not a SINGLE thing I can tell you to remedy that short of a trip to a reptile veterinarian. You aren't going to cure this at home, and that animal will suffer and die a prolonged death if you don't, period, end of discussion. This animal needs diagnostics and meds that you aren't going to have (that's IF it's still alive, which I doubt based on that photo).   

Chelonians can still be alive after they outwardly appear dead, but the only way to know whether this is a gas buildup post mortem or if it's inflammation as a result of sepsis, is to verify death. One way to do that is to check for reflex in the tail by straightening it and see if it is pulled back parallel to the body. Next is to attempt to open the mouth and check for reflex to the tongue being touched or scraping the roof of the mouth, or reflex from the eyes being gently touched. If none, and the eyes are sunken in, or a brown lividity spot is seen on the bottom of the shell, then the tortoise is dead. Based on this picture, I am pretty sure the tortoise is dead already.

Given how little you appear to know of these animals, I wold advise you to not get another. Your stewardship is wholly irresponsible, and in fact cruel, if you did not even know for sure what species it was (how can you be knowledgeable of care if you don't even know the species?) and your diet was so poor. This is nothing but a shame to obtain an exotic animal, and in this day in age when information is freely available at your fingertips, to see this happen. Such ignorance is inexcusable in the internet age. She could have seen 80 or more years, but I'm afraid that she's dead now before the average cat would have died.