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RE: feeding

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Posted by: PHRatz at Tue Dec 19 10:32:16 2006  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHRatz ]  
   

>>How often should one feed a yearling painted and does anyone have a good info on how to go about hibernating a yearling?
>>And what about yearling stinkpots?

When my painted was a baby I fed him twice a day as much food as he would eat in say a 20 minute period- until he stopped eating. After that I scooped up the food & got rid of it.
I did that for his first 2 years, then I dropped it down to one feeding per day. After he passed puberty I dropped his feedings down to every other day.
I've never fed him the same food twice in a row, I still rotate his food as much as I can. I feed him a lot of live foods because the dietary needs for every species of turtle hasn't been scientifically studied as dog/cat foods have been. They don't eat soy beans & corn in the wild so I stay away from commercial food, I feed items he'd be eating in the wild if he were in the wild. I do feed pellets 2-4 times a month.

He's captive bred, he'll be 13 years old in 2007, I've never tried to hibernate him, he's never indicated he wants to either.





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