Hey everyone!
You might remember me from the OMG FML post a week earlier. I thought I would try another, slightly less dramatic post on here
For food, I have been feeding him ZooMeds Box Turtle Diet and a mixture of meal worms and wax worms. I can't find any crawlers locally but they should start to spring up soon. I tried feeding crickets, but they seem to be a little fast for him currently. My little dude, permanetly renamed "Smalls" seems active, certainly more then his normal just chilling when i got him. He seems to be digging a lot and burys himself to sleep everynight in the substrate. He also has been taking himself on dips into his pond periodically by himself now. My concerns are:
1. Does this seem like normal, happy activity?
2. He has gotten out of his pond once on his own that i know of, but I am not completely sure he knows how too otherwise... How long is safe for him to stay in there? He never seems to happy when I take him out... he even likes to hunt in his water sometimes.
3. Origionally he was eating about 50/50 Zoomed/bugs but now eats very little Zoo Med and a lot of bugs. I mixed a little calcium in with it. Do you think i just made it taste bad? All and all he has a very healthy appetite, never refusing to eat. Downed almost 12 wax/mealies for dinner last night! I thought that was a lot for a 2.5-3" turtle.
4. How much food is too much food? Should I cut him off ever from anything in particular?
5. He is very curious about everything inside the cage and rarely ducks in even when I pick him up, but if I let him explore around the apartment he just sucks his head in and doesn't move.
Thanks for any imput you have! He is an amazing little dude. whenever he runs out of worms he always just walks up to the front of the cage and looks at me like "Hey buddy, whats the deal?" LoL never thought a turtle would have so much personality...
You might remember me from the OMG FML post a week earlier. I thought I would try another, slightly less dramatic post on here
For food, I have been feeding him ZooMeds Box Turtle Diet and a mixture of meal worms and wax worms. I can't find any crawlers locally but they should start to spring up soon. I tried feeding crickets, but they seem to be a little fast for him currently. My little dude, permanetly renamed "Smalls" seems active, certainly more then his normal just chilling when i got him. He seems to be digging a lot and burys himself to sleep everynight in the substrate. He also has been taking himself on dips into his pond periodically by himself now. My concerns are:
1. Does this seem like normal, happy activity?
2. He has gotten out of his pond once on his own that i know of, but I am not completely sure he knows how too otherwise... How long is safe for him to stay in there? He never seems to happy when I take him out... he even likes to hunt in his water sometimes.
3. Origionally he was eating about 50/50 Zoomed/bugs but now eats very little Zoo Med and a lot of bugs. I mixed a little calcium in with it. Do you think i just made it taste bad? All and all he has a very healthy appetite, never refusing to eat. Downed almost 12 wax/mealies for dinner last night! I thought that was a lot for a 2.5-3" turtle.
4. How much food is too much food? Should I cut him off ever from anything in particular?
5. He is very curious about everything inside the cage and rarely ducks in even when I pick him up, but if I let him explore around the apartment he just sucks his head in and doesn't move.
Thanks for any imput you have! He is an amazing little dude. whenever he runs out of worms he always just walks up to the front of the cage and looks at me like "Hey buddy, whats the deal?" LoL never thought a turtle would have so much personality...