Feeding and Nutrition :: Double Check Feeding Amount

[Tenodera]

Sounds like Tito is getting spoiled. Now when you don't give him pellets whenever he wants, he'll bite you!

Are you still offering him veggies?

[Safdar]

See thats the thing im not sure about
This only happen one time and he proably though my finger was a pellet
Because when i moved it he stopped trying to bite and just started begging

I dont know

Yup, im still trying everyday

He does though chomp down Anarcharis everyday

[Tenodera]

ooh sounds like he's getting over-enthusiastic then...lol!

Oh so he IS actually eating his veggies! I assumed he was a full-fledged carnivore!

[Safdar]

No hes chomping on some anarcharis as i type this
He really likes it, but has a hard time in breaking it apart

Ya i tihnk you are right

Maybe if i try and feed him small portions throughout the day
To make him feel like hes eating alot

[Steliosf]

He bit me, well he tried to i moved my hand

Just a suggestion...

Try to handle more your baby RES it will stop the biting of your fingers...
That's what i did and stopped that habit.(at first they were also biting me probably for defence not hunger. After picking them and "play" with them more often, they stopped and they r also not afraid of me .)

[TheComputerGremlin]

My husband's the same way, the turtle is always begging him, but we don't give in. With me, he doesn't seem to beg at all. I don't know why. I'd suggest going over to the tank a bunch of times each day, just walk over and check on him, and leave without feeding him. Eventually he'll get used to you not existing solely for his feeding pleasure! (I think that's why my turtle associates my husband with only feeding, cuz I go in there a lot and just check on him and watch him, my husband only really goes in there to feed him.)

[Turtle_Friend_til_the_End]

Awwww!

[Take-One]

This has been bothering me
Tito keeps begging and begging like hes been hungry for days
I know hell do that
But when im home thats all he does
Just float there staring at me
Occasioanly hell go around
But then back to me

Today when i fed him already and i fixing sometihng in his tank
He bit me, well he tried to i moved my hand

It just makes me feel bad

I know he is just running his scheme to get more food
But still
the giult is horribe

Stop Swearing! he ment to say he'll. I OVER feed my turt and it happens to me

[SpotsMama]

This is a pretty old thread and some of the people aren't active on the forum these days. I'm gong to lock it so the discussion doesn't get too confusing, although the photos on the first page are very instructive.
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