return to main index

  mobile - desktop
follow us on facebook follow us on twitter follow us on YouTube link to us on LinkedIn
Click here for LLL Reptile & Supply  
Click here for LLL Reptile & Supply
This Space Available
3 months for $50.00
Locate a business by name: click to list your business
search the classifieds. buy an account
events by zip code list an event
Search the forums             Search in:
News & Events: Herp Photo of the Day: False Coral Snake . . . . . . . . . .  Herp Photo of the Day: Bearded Dragon . . . . . . . . . .  Greater Cincinnati Herp Society Meeting - Apr 02, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Calusa Herp Society Meeting - Apr 04, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Southwestern Herp Society Meeting - Apr 06, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Hamburg Reptile Show - Apr. 13, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  St. Louis Herpetological Society - Apr 14, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  San Diego Herp Society Meeting - Apr 16, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Suncoast Herp Society Meeting - Apr 20, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  DFW Herp Society Meeting - Apr 20, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Colorado Herp Society Meeting - Apr 20, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Chicago Herpetological Society Meeting - Apr 21, 2024 . . . . . . . . . . 
Join USARK - Fight for your rights!
full banner - advertise here .50¢/1000 views
click here for Rodent Pro
pool banner - $50 year

RE: Not Eating Anymore

[ Login ] [ User Prefs ] [ Search Forums ] [ Back to Main Page ] [ Back to Red-eared & Other Sliders ] [ Reply To This Message ]
[ Register to Post ]

Posted by: mp at Thu Dec 13 21:34:57 2007  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mp ]  
   

I've had a problem with my res not basking lately either. She's in one of those big black plastic pond forms on my basement floor, half full on one end, and a sandbox on the other end because she's gravid. She stopped coming out to bask, and I'm guessing that since the water is in the 80's, it's the AIR over the water that's cold, so she doesn't want to come out. I have a fireplace nearby with a fan blowing on it, so the air near the floor is much cooler. So what I'm doing now is putting her in a seperate plastic tub container with the basking light over it and making her stay in it for two stretches of 2 to 3 hours a day. You may want to try this. I lay a piece of plexiglass over the tub to try and keep some of the heat in. You may have been overfeeding your turtle before, hence the big stools. And they will slow down eating if they can't bask and get warmed up enough to digest. So try getting her to bask elsewhere, or lower the water in the tank a little. the air above the water may warm up some. My turtle is 12 and gravid for the first time, but I don't think there's a certain age that they start producing eggs. I had her xrayed when she stopped eating and counted 7 eggs, she's layed 8 and I can see she still has a few more. So they are unpredictable. good luck with yours.


   

[ Reply To This Message ] [ Subscribe to this Thread ] [ Show Entire Thread ]


<< Previous Message:  Not Eating Anymore - jfk, Thu Dec 13 17:57:01 2007