Jackson7
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Hello,
I have 2 cherry heads Cherry and Berry. They are the same age, about 5.5 in long. about a month ago we moved them to their new enclosures. With the new set up I changed to feeding them everyday and leaving the food in the enclosure all day. It took them a little while to get comfortable in the new enclosure and start acting more normal. These last couple weeks I've noticed that Cherry is eating about twice as much as Berry and I'm trying to figure out if one of them is eating to much or two little.
The feeding schedule was 4 days of Collard Greens, 2 Days of mango, 4 days of Mustard and Turnip greens and today I gave them Yellow squash. Protein day is 2 days form now.
I gave them each 2 big collard green leafs (the leaf is bigger than they are): Cherry ate 2 all the way down to the fibrous stem, Berry ate almost all of the bigger one.
Over the course of 2 days they ate a whole mango. I gave Berry a little extra because I thought maybe he just didn't like collard greens. Cherry did not eat the mango skin, Berry did.
I gave them a similar about of Mustard and Turnip greens. The leafs were a smaller so it hard to tell exactly but berry ate noticeably less.
The days not over yet but Cherry has eaten a little more squash.
(I'm thinking ill switch to 2 days green 1 days fruit cycle in the future)
I know eating less can be a sigh of something wrong so that's what I'm worried about. They both seem alert, I see them walking around, their eyes are clear.
Is Berry eating to little? eating a leaf the size of you seems like a lot, but cherry ate two of them.
Cherry has always like greens more than Berry. Am I feeding them too much fruit, giving Berry the option to eat less greens?
Is Berry actually eating a fine amount and Cherry is eating a lot or too much? Berry is eating, and seems pretty enthusiastic about it when I catch him in the act.
Its winter here and they can see the sun, could 2 different turtles respond differently to the season change. They are separated but there environment is identical.
Thanks ahead of time, let me know if there is any helpful info I forgot to include
I have 2 cherry heads Cherry and Berry. They are the same age, about 5.5 in long. about a month ago we moved them to their new enclosures. With the new set up I changed to feeding them everyday and leaving the food in the enclosure all day. It took them a little while to get comfortable in the new enclosure and start acting more normal. These last couple weeks I've noticed that Cherry is eating about twice as much as Berry and I'm trying to figure out if one of them is eating to much or two little.
The feeding schedule was 4 days of Collard Greens, 2 Days of mango, 4 days of Mustard and Turnip greens and today I gave them Yellow squash. Protein day is 2 days form now.
I gave them each 2 big collard green leafs (the leaf is bigger than they are): Cherry ate 2 all the way down to the fibrous stem, Berry ate almost all of the bigger one.
Over the course of 2 days they ate a whole mango. I gave Berry a little extra because I thought maybe he just didn't like collard greens. Cherry did not eat the mango skin, Berry did.
I gave them a similar about of Mustard and Turnip greens. The leafs were a smaller so it hard to tell exactly but berry ate noticeably less.
The days not over yet but Cherry has eaten a little more squash.
(I'm thinking ill switch to 2 days green 1 days fruit cycle in the future)
I know eating less can be a sigh of something wrong so that's what I'm worried about. They both seem alert, I see them walking around, their eyes are clear.
Is Berry eating to little? eating a leaf the size of you seems like a lot, but cherry ate two of them.
Cherry has always like greens more than Berry. Am I feeding them too much fruit, giving Berry the option to eat less greens?
Is Berry actually eating a fine amount and Cherry is eating a lot or too much? Berry is eating, and seems pretty enthusiastic about it when I catch him in the act.
Its winter here and they can see the sun, could 2 different turtles respond differently to the season change. They are separated but there environment is identical.
Thanks ahead of time, let me know if there is any helpful info I forgot to include