Feeding and Nutrition :: Hand Feeding

[Ranger The Red Ear Slider]

Oh okay i don't give him much of them but i don't know what else to give him for clacium other then the cuttle bone which he never eats. I have heared of dusting his food with the cuttle bone grinded up but wouldn't that just all get washed off by the water? Also i saw on this cuttle bone box that the cuttle bone disovles slowely into the water does that give them calcium?

[steve]

Some think so.

[paddleton]

Paddleton only seems to be eating grasshoppers or crickets, but I want him to eat things that are going to give him what he needs but he will not eat any thing I give him not even the turtle sticks so I am not sure what to do. He will take a bite of the food i offer but then spits it out.




western painted turtle
4 to 6 inches
Paddleton is his name

[steve]

I'll try to answer in your other post (viewtopic.php?f=8&t=26917)

[paddleton]

My turtle ate from my hand for the first time today, It was awsome:)