Point taken, Bradtort. But with my Russian, I don't find that giving extra food does more than distract him at that moment from eating something he shouldn't. As soon as he's finished the food he goes back to eating other things, and I think that some of this behaviour comes from curiosity. I do think that torts will test lots of different 'potential' food items, just to see what it's like. After a few goes, they realize that they don't really like it and go back to what they know best.

Nina

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• Argh! He's trying to eat the substrate! - Nicodemus, Sat Mar 18 07:17:07 2006
• One more thing... - Nicodemus, Sat Mar 18 07:26:38 2006
• RE: Argh! He's trying to eat the substrate! - bradtort, Sat Mar 18 07:29:45 2006
• Nod... - Nicodemus, Sat Mar 18 07:35:59 2006
• RE: substrate snacking - unchikun, Sat Mar 18 14:02:42 2006
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