just a few questions - i posted my basic plan on the introductions board, but the longer i have him the more questions i have! I'm sure most of this must be normal but I love this little guy so I need to ask
is the gulping normal? its just a noiseless swallowing he does a lot of, I'm sure it is normal but it cant hurt to ask?
also, how much should i expect a 1yo 8cm tort to eat? he does eat the weeds/ leaves he had, I bought them tortoise specific, but he hasn't had much more than a dozen bites since I got him this time yesterday. sometimes he tries for a bite a few times, misses and gives up.
what constitutes a tortoise bath? he has a shallow water dish which i filled with water about body temp and put him in, which he duely climbed out of again. he does like to sit in there sometimes, does this count or is a tort bath something different?
tort also spends a lot of time trying to escape his tort table, as there is a wall partially made of plastic so you can see him from a lower angle. Is he just bored? I've done my research on substrates, food water temp gradients so I don't think anything like that is bothering him, and he has a built in hide and pebbles, does he need more entertainment?
is the gulping normal? its just a noiseless swallowing he does a lot of, I'm sure it is normal but it cant hurt to ask?
also, how much should i expect a 1yo 8cm tort to eat? he does eat the weeds/ leaves he had, I bought them tortoise specific, but he hasn't had much more than a dozen bites since I got him this time yesterday. sometimes he tries for a bite a few times, misses and gives up.
what constitutes a tortoise bath? he has a shallow water dish which i filled with water about body temp and put him in, which he duely climbed out of again. he does like to sit in there sometimes, does this count or is a tort bath something different?
tort also spends a lot of time trying to escape his tort table, as there is a wall partially made of plastic so you can see him from a lower angle. Is he just bored? I've done my research on substrates, food water temp gradients so I don't think anything like that is bothering him, and he has a built in hide and pebbles, does he need more entertainment?