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RE: Help!!!!!!

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Posted by: negatronix at Tue Feb 10 20:47:27 2009  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by negatronix ]  
   

You can usually order dandelion greens at most grocery stores. There are some places on the net that offer some of the natural foods that chucks will consume in the wild. Turtlestuff.com has a great selection of prepared/dried food, and seeds to grow your own.



If the chuck is wild caught, and is a sub-adult to adult he will probably be pretty picky, and may only take dandelion flowers for a while. I used to ziptie bunches of weeds, and flowers together then "pinch" the bunching between a few rocks. This helped simulate how they would feed in the wild. I also rigged up a wire mesh that I could hang flowers on a vine/stem through. Make sure the ziptie is not in a place that the chuck can get to.



I've found that wild caught chucks seem to prefer a feeding location between a couple of high basking spots. When they go from rock to rock they might sneak a little nibble.



Good luck,

-Kory





   

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<< Previous Message:  RE: Help!!!!!! - ksterry, Sun Feb 1 20:49:34 2009

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