ashleyb1996
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Hello, just wondering if anyone could help and give me some advise with my little Timmy.
He is near on 6 months old.
I got him on the 30th August and he has been absolutely perfect he's gone from 56 grams to 59 grams since then (which I believe is okay from the research I done?) he's usually fed every morning unless I'm running late for work then it's evening, a handful of grass most days then I mix it up with different weeds and plants so it's not the same every single day. He gets a 5 minute soaks daily, apart from the odd days I stay late at work and his already asleep when I get home. He lives in a tortoise table, His mercury vapour lamp is on from 8am- 9.30 pm Basking;90-95 f, and then from 90-52f is warm to cool side. I have a cermamic heater for night time as it's very cold in my house and his just a baby, which varies from 65-50f from hot to cool side. I was using a soil that had white stones in ( which he was eating) then changed to coco coir, and spaghnum moss, he has 2 hides one built in with the tortoise table which I keep cool and dry with the soil, and a wood one I put in that I keep warm and humid (70-90%). Gets two lots of daily water as he somehow manages to splash his water out of his bowl!! As I said I give him about a handful of food he eats maybe abit less then half which I get rid of at night, and drinks plenty of water! I put a pinch of nutrobal and calci powder on his food every other day .. e.g nutrobal one day leave for 2 days Calci powder leave for 2days and so on. ( in case you thought I ment I put them both on one lot of food haha)
Anyway I think I've covered everything.
As I said before he was trying to eat the little white stones in his substrate, I've seen him actually eat one, the other times I've managed to get it out of his mouth before swallowing, any other times would be when I'm at work so I wasn't sure if he did eat anymore, so I changed that.. I took him outside when it was warmer, I have a very grassy garden with a pavement walkway with lots of stones.. he was not interested in any of the grass, weeds or colourful plants.. he want to the stones.. he hasn't been out since as it's way too cold!
I know I probably shouldn't but I do sometimes hand feed him and he sometimes tries to sneak off and try and bite my hand instead of his food (he's properly bit me before and it actually hurts lol) I don't understand why he does that either?
Also today I gave him a little cuddle with my white dressing gown on and he kept on trying to eat it? Everything white he has to eat?!
I read that he might not be getting enough vitamins and minerals.. so for one week I topped up his powder by leaving just one day apart but then he got really white gritty urinates? Which I read wasn't very good?! So now I'm a little stuck on what to do for him? His got cuttle fish too.. which he will only eat it fresh, I've been changing it once a month. He usually picks at it at least 3days a week so when he hasn't touched it for a week I know that's when he wants a new one. Can anyone help me? I don't want to have to worry that everytime I have my white dressing gown on he's going to try and eat me lol! I'm very sorry that's its long, and anything that seems wrong I'm more then happy for you to advise me on how to change
thanks.
He is near on 6 months old.
I got him on the 30th August and he has been absolutely perfect he's gone from 56 grams to 59 grams since then (which I believe is okay from the research I done?) he's usually fed every morning unless I'm running late for work then it's evening, a handful of grass most days then I mix it up with different weeds and plants so it's not the same every single day. He gets a 5 minute soaks daily, apart from the odd days I stay late at work and his already asleep when I get home. He lives in a tortoise table, His mercury vapour lamp is on from 8am- 9.30 pm Basking;90-95 f, and then from 90-52f is warm to cool side. I have a cermamic heater for night time as it's very cold in my house and his just a baby, which varies from 65-50f from hot to cool side. I was using a soil that had white stones in ( which he was eating) then changed to coco coir, and spaghnum moss, he has 2 hides one built in with the tortoise table which I keep cool and dry with the soil, and a wood one I put in that I keep warm and humid (70-90%). Gets two lots of daily water as he somehow manages to splash his water out of his bowl!! As I said I give him about a handful of food he eats maybe abit less then half which I get rid of at night, and drinks plenty of water! I put a pinch of nutrobal and calci powder on his food every other day .. e.g nutrobal one day leave for 2 days Calci powder leave for 2days and so on. ( in case you thought I ment I put them both on one lot of food haha)
Anyway I think I've covered everything.
As I said before he was trying to eat the little white stones in his substrate, I've seen him actually eat one, the other times I've managed to get it out of his mouth before swallowing, any other times would be when I'm at work so I wasn't sure if he did eat anymore, so I changed that.. I took him outside when it was warmer, I have a very grassy garden with a pavement walkway with lots of stones.. he was not interested in any of the grass, weeds or colourful plants.. he want to the stones.. he hasn't been out since as it's way too cold!
I know I probably shouldn't but I do sometimes hand feed him and he sometimes tries to sneak off and try and bite my hand instead of his food (he's properly bit me before and it actually hurts lol) I don't understand why he does that either?
Also today I gave him a little cuddle with my white dressing gown on and he kept on trying to eat it? Everything white he has to eat?!
I read that he might not be getting enough vitamins and minerals.. so for one week I topped up his powder by leaving just one day apart but then he got really white gritty urinates? Which I read wasn't very good?! So now I'm a little stuck on what to do for him? His got cuttle fish too.. which he will only eat it fresh, I've been changing it once a month. He usually picks at it at least 3days a week so when he hasn't touched it for a week I know that's when he wants a new one. Can anyone help me? I don't want to have to worry that everytime I have my white dressing gown on he's going to try and eat me lol! I'm very sorry that's its long, and anything that seems wrong I'm more then happy for you to advise me on how to change
thanks.
