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idk wat happend... be4 my female ornate would eat all kinds of foods(bananas, apples, tomatoes,worms dog food, occasionally of course ect..) but now she only eats crickets or other stuff that move fast. if they dont move then she just loses interest in food offered and just doesnt eat. my male eats like a champ. how do i get a boxie that eats only things that move to eat other stuuf that she needs? i really need help. i dnt want anything to happn to her.
mahalo,

Ahh, read my online book where I talk about just how to retrain a picky eater. She has trained YOU Now it's your time to retrain her. Look at the health and diet chapters at www.boxturtlesite.info/bxbook.html. Tess

>>idk wat happend... be4 my female ornate would eat all kinds of foods(bananas, apples, tomatoes,worms dog food, occasionally of course ect..) but now she only eats crickets or other stuff that move fast. if they dont move then she just loses interest in food offered and just doesnt eat. my male eats like a champ. how do i get a boxie that eats only things that move to eat other stuuf that she needs? i really need help. i dnt want anything to happn to her.
>> mahalo,

My female ornate use to be like that. She even rejected dog food, and wouldn't eat anything but live food. It got really tiring when I had to buy 10 dozen superworms a week at $1.99 a dozen. And then she became a fat mess. I eventually put her in with my hatchling redfoot and let her eat what he ate. After about three days, she was munching on romaine lettuce and cantaloupe. Now she eats anything, live or not, meat or not.
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Cliff

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