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Hello all,
Sorry for the disturbing title, and post.
When checking on my little longest without seen eaten food hatchling I noticed soem brown spread apart brown stuff(So sorry for the details,lol). FECES!!! Stupid question, do snappers have to have food to be able to digest to poop? Or is he just digesting, stomach stuff(Not that good with the anatomy, as you can see,lol)?
MAin question! DO turtles have to eat in order to poop?
Herpfood
The answer is yes, plain and simple. Are there other turtles with the hatchling? what have you been feeding it?
-Mike
OK, I read your previous post. Hatchling common snappers are primarily carnivorous, and they need the extra calcium and protein to develop properly. Stick with beef heart, fish, and earthworms. Plain, cooked chicken and small insects are good as well.
What you saw in the tank could possibly have been shed skin.
-mike
Yes, but you don't have to had seen it for it to happen.
That is (you haven’t said just how young this hatchling is) it could be still processing the last of the egg yolk that it was born with (so you wouldn’t have seen it eating anything).
A snapping turtle’s digestion can be extremely slow. I have had adults discharge in their feces items that were ingested as much as five days earlier.
It might have eaten something and you didn’t notice.
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