Hi everyone.
I'm new here so I'll give a little background to help fill you in. On July 16th I was given an Eastern Box Turtle that had been living at a nature center I worked at one summer. They think they've had him for at least 10 years, and he was in a 20-30 gallon aquarium without a UV light all that time, and a heat light only sometimes. They claimed this was due to lack of money... His name is Tri-pod because he is missing a foot.
He is now in a large kiddie pool with a combo light, and an eco-earth/forest floor/moss mix for substrate that he loves to dig in.
The problem is he has barely eaten since I brought him home. They fed him the day I got him, egg and watermelon, and he ate all of it. But he's barely touched anything since. I've only gotten him to eat a couple bites of watermelon a couple weeks ago, and nothing since.
He has always been a picky eater. He likes boiled eggs, tomatoes, and fruit. He won't eat crickets, mealworms or any other kind of meat. I tried introducing him to other foods when I worked there a couple years ago because they didn't give him much variety, but he refused to eat most of it.
I don't know what to do. I've even tried using his old aquarium as a feeding tank since that is what he was used to for so long. He's drinking fine, is still really active, and is not showing any sign of respiratory problems.
How long can he go without eating? Is it likely due to the drastic change in enclosures? Should I keep him in his old aquarium despite it being so small?
I'm new here so I'll give a little background to help fill you in. On July 16th I was given an Eastern Box Turtle that had been living at a nature center I worked at one summer. They think they've had him for at least 10 years, and he was in a 20-30 gallon aquarium without a UV light all that time, and a heat light only sometimes. They claimed this was due to lack of money... His name is Tri-pod because he is missing a foot.
He is now in a large kiddie pool with a combo light, and an eco-earth/forest floor/moss mix for substrate that he loves to dig in.
The problem is he has barely eaten since I brought him home. They fed him the day I got him, egg and watermelon, and he ate all of it. But he's barely touched anything since. I've only gotten him to eat a couple bites of watermelon a couple weeks ago, and nothing since.
He has always been a picky eater. He likes boiled eggs, tomatoes, and fruit. He won't eat crickets, mealworms or any other kind of meat. I tried introducing him to other foods when I worked there a couple years ago because they didn't give him much variety, but he refused to eat most of it.
I don't know what to do. I've even tried using his old aquarium as a feeding tank since that is what he was used to for so long. He's drinking fine, is still really active, and is not showing any sign of respiratory problems.
How long can he go without eating? Is it likely due to the drastic change in enclosures? Should I keep him in his old aquarium despite it being so small?