Hi All,
Sorry, long time no post, we've been quite busy. Our babies are now 3 months old and my youngest thinks we are overfeeding them, so I wanted to get some expert opinion here.
First a little background. After almost an entire month of them showing zero interest in food, the hatchlings eat with gusto. The first we found and what used to be the smallest, Bagel, has taken over the food dish and cuttle bone and chases off the other 2. This doesn't present too big of an issue, because when he/she burrows in to sleep off pigging out, the other two come out and eat.
It is adorable watching them eat, as they wind up so deliberately and grab the pellets like hungry hungry hippos. The also seem to enjoy light stroking on their shells and top of their head. But I digress.
Since scaring us with not eating for their first month we have been filling the habitat with food and they can eat whenever they feel like it. Bagel and Croissant both stick to turtle pellets and cuttle bone, Baguette has taken an interest to cantaloupe and shoves it in with both feet as fast as he/she can. The other two think cantaloupe is something to stand on to bask.
Where our worry comes in is Bagel seems to be getting really fat and bursting out of his/her shell. I'm posting here pictures of Bagel and Baguette for comparison. Is Bagel getting too fat and what do we do about it?
Below are 4 photos of Bagel followed by 4 of Baguette for comparison:
Sorry, long time no post, we've been quite busy. Our babies are now 3 months old and my youngest thinks we are overfeeding them, so I wanted to get some expert opinion here.
First a little background. After almost an entire month of them showing zero interest in food, the hatchlings eat with gusto. The first we found and what used to be the smallest, Bagel, has taken over the food dish and cuttle bone and chases off the other 2. This doesn't present too big of an issue, because when he/she burrows in to sleep off pigging out, the other two come out and eat.
It is adorable watching them eat, as they wind up so deliberately and grab the pellets like hungry hungry hippos. The also seem to enjoy light stroking on their shells and top of their head. But I digress.
Since scaring us with not eating for their first month we have been filling the habitat with food and they can eat whenever they feel like it. Bagel and Croissant both stick to turtle pellets and cuttle bone, Baguette has taken an interest to cantaloupe and shoves it in with both feet as fast as he/she can. The other two think cantaloupe is something to stand on to bask.
Where our worry comes in is Bagel seems to be getting really fat and bursting out of his/her shell. I'm posting here pictures of Bagel and Baguette for comparison. Is Bagel getting too fat and what do we do about it?
Below are 4 photos of Bagel followed by 4 of Baguette for comparison: