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- Dec 9, 2007
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I've had my tortoise for about six months now, I got him from a friend who got it from someone who didn't want him anymore, I have a few questions and I thought this would be the place to ask.
How can I tell how old he is?
I only feed the tortoise lettuce with calcium powder on top, is that a healthy diet, can I feed him anything else? How often and how much is healthy for him to eat?
Do I have to cut his nails? They're starting to get pretty long and his arms got stuck in his shell once because of them, if so how do I do it? I am super freaked out about attempting this.
Sometimes when he is feeding he starts biting his own leg, why would he do that?
The following paragraph was written by my roomate and I think all of these questions are stupid: Can he recognize me? Like, he sees me every day, does he know me? You know. Why when we feed him by hand (it's fun and funny) does he seem to be gentler. Is he afraid to bite me? He doesn't bite me ever. Why not? Also, he climbs up the side of his wall all the time and it's annoying, I think he thinks he's getting out. Sometimes he'll even try so hard he flips backwards... he's very silly. Also, why does he attack my red gum ball machine? Also, why does he get scared when we put the ninja turtle action figure in front of him? He attacked him last time. Frightening. ..
thanks a lot