Feeding and Nutrition :: little piggies

[alkaiser]

Let me see if I can get a good look at him..

[alkaiser]

The pellets also swell and swell a lot. A pellet can easily get 5 times it's dried out size. If you are feeding abunch of dried pellets and the turtle is choiwing it down quickly, enough to fill the tummy basically dry, it will expand terribly in their system.

That's a very astute observation, I'll have to remember it.

I suppose this all may be why my turtles shell is now a dark green/brown instead of green.

It's actually only about 2 and a quarter inches, btw.

[sonyj]

RES shells darken naturally as they age. When they are full grown they can be anywhere from brown/brownish-green to almost black. I'd think this is more of why your RES's shell is darker.

[marisa]

alkaiser, rather than Reptocal, it would be better to use RepCal (the latter is phorphorus free).