Thank you so much for your response and advice Linda. I really do appreciate help from other herpers and I will follow your advice and just allow their picky behavior to continue.

In response to your question, I have been keeping their water temperature at around 70-76 degrees Fahrenheit and their basking platfrom is between 85-90 degrees Fahrenheit. They just love sitting up on their special and easy to clean turtle ramp. They also absolutely adore the new log I have placed in their tank with artifical plants sprouting off of the surface. The plants that break the surface of the water are used to sleep on and they enjoy the security and camouflage benefits from all the vegetative cover in their aquarium.

As for the calcium related problem. I want to feed them calcium rich food sources but I can't seem to get any calcium into them. They won't touch the cuttle bone, the powdered calcium just breaks up and dissolves in the water and doesn't benefit them in any way, and they won't eat any phoenix worms. Is their a way for me to supply them with the calcium they need for healthy and normal shell/bone growth? If you could help me out with this and maybe offer some alternative means to give them calcium, it would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I noticed that other forum members and you included can post images of your turtles and other herps after your response to a question. How do you do that? I would really like to post my beautiful and absolutely gorgeous habitat that I've created for both baby painted turtles and an adult reeve's turtle. Can you help me out regarding this? As always, thanks for your response.

_Dennis

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