One of my RES just developed long nails (wich of course, shown me that he was a male). Just wondering, when does my turts starts to eat his greens? He still shuns veggies, he's almost one years old (birthdays commin up, had him since he was an egg ^^). I keep him alone. Has 2 brothers/sisters (cant identify the sex yet, to small). Both are almost like twins, eventhough both hatched around a different day (about 1 or 2 days difference). Both are about 5 days perhaps? different from the oldest, and both are half the oldest's size !!! I used to keep all of em together, but decided to seperate the eldest from the 3, coz he was the biggest & fastest, i was afraid the other 2 will lose competition for food. The other two are kept together in a nice roomy tupperware (at least for now), filtered, with a turtle dock. Water is about 8" deep for all my baby RES.
Okay, enough chatting, straight to my question :
1). When will the turt be old enough to accuire taste for his greens?
2). WIll sepperating my other 2 RES help their growth? I havent seen any competition or bullying at all, and they get along nicely ^^
P.S : i also like to add cuttlebone, but the 2 babies doesnt seem to care about it >.< Only the eldest sometimes took a nibble.
I feed them turtle pellets, dried shrimp, fish pellets, crickets (even the smaller ones will "wrestle" a crix underwater ^^), live freshwater feeder fish (goldfish, guppies, baby platys, even baby neons specifically sold for feeding, & another fish i'm not familiar with, but they also like it), earthworms, freeze dried tubifex, sometimes meallies, prepared tortoise diet.
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My "babies" :
1.0.0 Indo BTS (Tiliqua gigas gigas)
0.0.1 Rainbow skinks (Mabuya multifasciata)
1.0.2 RES (Trachemys scripta elegans)
0.0.3 Amboina box turtles (Cuora amboinensis)
1.0.0 Chinese softshell (Trionyx sinensis)
1.0.0 Asian leaf turtle (Cyclemys dentata)
1.0.0 Leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius)
And still growing...
