jeff kushner
Well-Known Member
I've lurked here long enough to see that there's some good and turtle-talented folks here!
Here is my latest sweetie......
Found her upside-down on a park asphalt path, dropped by a bird or kicked up by a jogger.
Beautiful little girl...who eats like a BEAST!
She lives in acrylic for now with an temp adj heating pad under one end. This gives her a heat range in her home from 70F near her food/water to 84F above her heat pad.
She loves to borrow till only her crown is showing each late-afternoon. She had to adjust to my schedule which has her "sun" coming up at 2-3AM and going down at 6-7PM......but it's been a month now and she's transitioned without effect it appears.
You can see the little "V"'s cut on the radish edges....she loves radishes which are high in vitamins but no D, so I take the D3 gels at the store, pop one and coat the edges of the radishes....problem solved.
She also eats her red and romaine lettuces, strawberries, raspberries....watermelon, greens of all types......happy, healthy turtles eat.....sick ones do not. If your's is not eating, don't do nothing while it wastes away...it could linger for months. Ask for help.
I've used this method(food coating) for Vit D introduction for many years with huge success.
Here's a cool thing bout Matilda....she will pull her radishes out of her food dish if they are served that day....she will pull them all around her home but mostly nearer her water dish. She only pulls radishes out of the dish, no other foods!
jeff
Here is my latest sweetie......
Found her upside-down on a park asphalt path, dropped by a bird or kicked up by a jogger.
Beautiful little girl...who eats like a BEAST!
She lives in acrylic for now with an temp adj heating pad under one end. This gives her a heat range in her home from 70F near her food/water to 84F above her heat pad.
She loves to borrow till only her crown is showing each late-afternoon. She had to adjust to my schedule which has her "sun" coming up at 2-3AM and going down at 6-7PM......but it's been a month now and she's transitioned without effect it appears.
You can see the little "V"'s cut on the radish edges....she loves radishes which are high in vitamins but no D, so I take the D3 gels at the store, pop one and coat the edges of the radishes....problem solved.
She also eats her red and romaine lettuces, strawberries, raspberries....watermelon, greens of all types......happy, healthy turtles eat.....sick ones do not. If your's is not eating, don't do nothing while it wastes away...it could linger for months. Ask for help.
I've used this method(food coating) for Vit D introduction for many years with huge success.
Here's a cool thing bout Matilda....she will pull her radishes out of her food dish if they are served that day....she will pull them all around her home but mostly nearer her water dish. She only pulls radishes out of the dish, no other foods!
jeff