My 3 year old three toed box turtle will not eating anything live that moves. I give fruit, veggies, dark leaf greens and sometimes boiled chicken. Any recommendations on how to get him to eat anything else?
For the past 2 years our 3 toed box turtle has buried himself on his own and not come out for at least 2-3 months that we literally had to check on him. This year he has just slowed down buries at night, pops his head out of substrate all day and every 2-3 days goes on a boxie crazy run. I have...
Box turtle wont eat anything but Omega One frozen Turtle cubes.
He wont go near anything that moves.
Any dried protein that I have seen to try (crickets, etc) he wont eat.
The only thing dried he will eat is Reptomin. He will not eat it if it is wet.
Any other form of pellets he will not eat if...
How long can you leave food/fruit or other items out without them going bad or attracting bugs?
I also heard DO NOT feed cat food.
Mixed responses from different people when you have a picky eater
My 3 toed box turtle wont eat fruit (blueberry or strawberry) wont eat any lettuce-it is like he does not like any sort of fruit or vegetables.
wont eat any bag food moistened mazuri of any kind,
He likes boiled chicken and reptomin pellets moistened but only eats every 3 days
He ate can box...
Hi,
I am having difficulty getting my 3 toed box turtle to eat. He did not go for earthworms (tried 4x). I tried romaine lettuce, he ate it once never again. I tried strawberries (3x) never ate. Blueberries (3x) did not eat. Canned box turtle food he did eat and boiled chicken but he only eats...
Question with regard to mixing/layering coco coir and sphagnum moss. I have both-I have the coco coir on bottom and moss on top. You note to "layer it on other substrate". What other substrate did you mean?
Did you also mean to mix the coco coir and moss together?
Should the coco coir be wet...
He is inside we did think he was a full aquatic turtle but now know that he is not he has a pool now and substrate and we have changed everything up and having a little difficulty he loved water now wont go in the pool. He sits in the substrate which is moist and cool so I am not sure if his...