That doesn't really do much for me because he keeps eating healthy food. I give him quality food but he just keeps eating and eating if I put it down in front of him. He is obese (according to the turtle BMI calculation). I don't know when to stop feeding. How much is too much? How much is too...
I have a redfoot that is about 1 year old. How much should he be eating? If I keep placing food down in front of him, he'll keep devouring until I stop. He's a complete glutton. Question is, how much food do I give him?
I'm going to try that blended up diet you talked about since it worked so well for you. I feel like my guy's habitat is pretty good but I plan on building him a bigger and better one in a couple of weeks during spring break.
Can you go into some detail about his "hunger strike" and how you got him to start eating again? My guy is currently eating very little and lost a significant amount of weight. Trying to figure out what to do.
Wish I could offer some advice on your questions, but I'm a novice.
Here is a thread I made a while ago with all of the information you requested, along with pictures. The only thing that has changed from that post is the diet. I now give him a bigger variety of greens and fruits, along with mazuri pellets: http://www.tortoiseforum.org/thread-63970.html
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My redfoot has been eating very little and I don't know what to do about it. He is about 5 months old, 2.8 in, 2.5 oz (lost some weight since last month).
He will nibble a little bit once every 2-3 days. He will not eat every day. Is that normal? I started giving him a mixed plate in case he is...
Thanks for the input. I will head to the store this weekend and try to pick up some mixed greens to change his diet. I have dropped the temperature to ~80 (and this helped raise humidity too). For those interested, he is about 4 months old.
So I got a hatchling earlier this month and wanted to share pictures of his enclosure as well as what I do to take care of him so that more experienced people can point out if I'm doing a good job or if there are things I should change. Let's start with his enclosure:
It is a glass enclosure...
So I just got a baby redfoot and am pretty new to the caring for it. I have set up a pretty basic enclosure with bark substrate, a little water pool, a half log for hiding, a UV lamp for vitamin D3, and a heat lamp on one side to keep the temperature at 80-90.
I have not added plants yet so...
I just got a little redfoot tortoise but the seller was not able to tell me exactly how old it is. I'd really like to know down to the month when it hatched. Maybe someone can help me out. Also, it's probably too early to tell, but I'd appreciate opinions on its sex. Here are some measurements...