Mother_of_Turtle
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Hi Everyone!
Does anyone have a specific amount of food you feed on a daily basis or do you just present a smorgasbord of yummies and let them eat their fill? Currently, I let Panda go for it and eat until he's not interested or on two occasions he swallowed a worm simply to spit back out he was so full. One day he ate sooo much food he was floating around at the top of the water circling the bowl like he was in a food coma and the next day he ate very little, the day after that he was right back at it. He's pretty smart, he wont eat anything thats not edible and he spits out what he doesn't like so I'm thinking he knows his food capacity? His daily menu is a variation of
- Greens (spinach or romaine)
-Shrimp (takes like 2 days to finish 1 medium sized shrimp)
-Fruit (either watermelon, blueberry, strawberry)
-Cuttlebone (he chomps on this at the beginning of his soak as an appetizer)
-Just introduced green beans, peas and carrots
-Boiled egg
-Salmon
-Worms daily (he eats at least 4)
-Pellets maybe twice a week as an after dinner snack
And I feed him by hand, not sure if thats a bad habit to start. Dont know about his pee habits, cant see it, but he has peed on me twice. he poops like everyday for 2-3 days in a row and then he wont poop for a day or two. Poop seems normal, formed, good size, not hard and no issues coming out.
Does anyone have a specific amount of food you feed on a daily basis or do you just present a smorgasbord of yummies and let them eat their fill? Currently, I let Panda go for it and eat until he's not interested or on two occasions he swallowed a worm simply to spit back out he was so full. One day he ate sooo much food he was floating around at the top of the water circling the bowl like he was in a food coma and the next day he ate very little, the day after that he was right back at it. He's pretty smart, he wont eat anything thats not edible and he spits out what he doesn't like so I'm thinking he knows his food capacity? His daily menu is a variation of
- Greens (spinach or romaine)
-Shrimp (takes like 2 days to finish 1 medium sized shrimp)
-Fruit (either watermelon, blueberry, strawberry)
-Cuttlebone (he chomps on this at the beginning of his soak as an appetizer)
-Just introduced green beans, peas and carrots
-Boiled egg
-Salmon
-Worms daily (he eats at least 4)
-Pellets maybe twice a week as an after dinner snack
And I feed him by hand, not sure if thats a bad habit to start. Dont know about his pee habits, cant see it, but he has peed on me twice. he poops like everyday for 2-3 days in a row and then he wont poop for a day or two. Poop seems normal, formed, good size, not hard and no issues coming out.