Thank you Lifefoot!! WOW I never knew so much work, time and love were involved. I think when I was like 5 my parents got me that plastic contraption with a palm tree and a tiny turtle but I can't for the life of me remember what happened to it.
Link is a beggar for food, he is getting used to my fingers dropping food and will now eat Mazuri and the other pellets I have (I break them up they are long). I'm not at the point where I'm ready to give "live" food - that creeps me out.
I have tried to give him red lettuce and he just ignores it, I remove it after about 30 minutes I don't want it mucking up the tank.
I read they have great vision and sense of smell - yet he can't "see" the food floating, and unless I drop "pellet" by "pellet" he just floats past them. He could eat for hours on end if I stand there dropping bit by bit - is this normal?
I never wanted a terrapin but now I have him I feel so responsible to make his habitat his home. I don't have a heater in the water yet but compared to what he was in - he is FAR more active with this light that came with this Aquatic Reptile Starter Kit I got yesterday... he's moving and mooching and watching my every move.
I put in some fake plants for him, he dug them out and so I took them out. I read there are some real plants I could get for him but he seems to just want to pace the glass, stretching his head out... staring at me.
He won't bask at all, from what I read they are supposed to like this but he wont and I'm concerned.
I have no problem reading, learning but being a newbie I'm scared to even go to bed fearing he'll be dead when I get up - and I feel horrible he's in such a small tank now
(until Tuesday at least) and this tank I'm getting has a heater for the water. For this does anyone recommend the strips on the outside of the glass that monitor the temp?
Is there a way to stop them from begging for more food? Link has had like 10 pellets now and he's still begging and it's breaking my heart... like he's starving.
Do I have to feed "live" food? (I can do it just not watch)
I have so many questions, I'm sorry