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Maggie Cummings
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Soak them once a day for 10 or 15 minutes. You are soaking them too much and that pushes the food thru their systems faster and they don't get all the nutrition from the food that way and it's just bad all around.
That's cute.I have one of the Redfoot torts that is completely unruly, it is fantastic...anytime I reach near the water dish to dump the slop mud and water mix out of it...he literally lifts on all fours and rushes towards my hand, and at the last moment he sucks in his head and rams his whole shell against my hand and then lifts the back and plants his back feet and it is on....he against that thing that attacks his water...lol...I love it...
Ok. I will cut back to once a day. Now sometimes when their in their enclosure I will mist their shells w warm water, do I need to stop that as well?Soak them once a day for 10 or 15 minutes. You are soaking them too much and that pushes the food thru their systems faster and they don't get all the nutrition from the food that way and it's just bad all around.
Ok. I will cut back to once a day. Now sometimes when their in their enclosure I will mist their shells w warm water, do I need to stop that as well?
LOL glad I'm not the only one! I was just thinking this same thing today when I took my tort out for a soak. The stuff is always all over its face/eyes.Ok my secret is out, I have OCD about things being clean, neat and organized. Now I know they are going to get dirty, that's what they do and I am cool w this, I have that under control. it's the part where it's all over everything. I also worry, about everything, I worry about them eating it, they prefer their food on a rock so of course it gets spread out all over the place and then they just nibble as they walk around, getting pieces of it w their food and when they dig it's all over their eyes, will that hurt their eyes? I soak them 3-4 times a day so they get cleaned up frequently but they will have it right back in their eyes as soon as I put them back in there. And then I also worry that maybe I have it to wet, maybe there needs to b a dry layer over top all that wet "dirt". ?? Shoot, I don't know. And yes, when they eat they have little pieces of stuff all over their faces and if I see it I get it off, just how I am. They don't seem to mind me cleaning them up tho.
Ya I broke down and put bark on top of it. It did eventually settle and pack down some but I still was frustrated w it all over their eyes so I got a real good deal on bark from pet mountain so I got it and just added it to my existing substrate. They r much cleaner now. Lol.LOL glad I'm not the only one! I was just thinking this same thing today when I took my tort out for a soak. The stuff is always all over its face/eyes.