Thank you. What a cutie. You are lucky he eats! Ours just looks at the food. But we don't leave him in his soak with food for an hour, only a half an hour. Maybe we should leave him with the food for a longer period. The problem with live food is the bugs end up crawling on him. The worms wrap...
Still not eating. Today we tried a slug and he had no interest. In fact, the slug crawled on his shell after each time we put it back in front of him. Ugh.
I took him to the vet today. He said he looks good, but is much too thin. He gave him metronidazole in case he has worms and a shot of Vitamin B to hopefully stimulate his appetite. If he goes back to eating we don't need to do another metronidazole, but if he doesn't we are supposed to go back...
Yes we are leaving them in there. We know he's not eating them because we see them in the moss.
I think we last saw a poop on Thursday. It was brown. We saw it while soaking him. Didn't soak him Saturday though so I don't know if he pooped then.
We have a large property and have no shortage of pillbugs. Sadly he seems to have no interest in them and now no interest in crickets either. :( The cricket will crawl on his shell or even on his head and he does nothing. We are trying everything for this stubborn turtle. On Saturday he weighed...