Hello everyone, I currently have 2 turtles. One of them is 1.75in and the other is 2.25in. I've been feeding them both about 6 reptomin baby pellets per day along with a handful of dandelion leaves and a piece of cuttlebone that's always floating about. I'm a bit concerned with the amount of dandelion they are eating. They both love eating the stuff, so I will leave it in for the day for them to graze on. It just bothers me because they are eating about 5-6 medium/large leaves per day. Their stool doesn't come out as solid as it does when I was feeding only pellets, it breaks apart into small bite size pieces, kind of like fish food flakes, bit of a mess to clean.
Should I be concerned? I've really just been using the pellets and dandelion as their staples. I'll feed them a few small pieces of other veggies here and there along with a few feeder fish every 2 weeks but that's about it.
The bigger one did go through a rapid growth spurt where he grew ~0.5in in about a week and a half. But I was feeding 7-8 pellets at that time and have not noticed any more growth spurts since going back down to 6. I've read that keeping warm temperatures can stimulate rapid growth as well, they used to have their tank temp at 80-82, and have lowered it down to 77-78. Their behavior or appetite doesn't seem to have been affected.
Thanks for your help.
