chelslpn
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I've had my Russian tortoise since the end of July.. He's pretty active even now that it is fall because we live in south Florida and can still spend time outside (it's like 85 degrees.) Some days he does stay in his hide lately but will generally come out when I open a window, and even if he's not extremely active he'll still roam around outside. He eats pretty heathy... I feed him every day obviously but some days he doesn't even look at his food except to run it over and drag it around.. I'd say he eats almost every thing in his dish about every 3 days. The 2 days in between he might pick at it. I have the right temps. He loves butter lettuce and radicchio, will tolerate dandelion greens and carrots, won't eat any weeds I put in there.. Has a calcium supplement and will sometimes drink water during his soak but barely. When I first got him he would poop on his soak but only a tiny bit.. I think more out of stress.. Like one tiny piece. Now he never poops.. Ever.. In his soak, in his enclosure, running around the floor, outside.. Nowhere. Everyone says he's probably eating it but I've never seen him.. Granted he won't eat his regular food if he knows we're around either. He's still skittish.. He'll let me pet his head sometimes but won't eat from my hand, doesn't enjoy being held or coming near us in general even if I put food down.. I do put his food dish down early in the am while he's still sleeping but still. I Don't know if any of this signals a GI problem.. I think he's acting normal.. He hasn't changed generally since I got him but he wasn't a hatchling. Someone told me to give him some pumpkin puree so I'm going to try that.. Any suggestions?