albino turtle collection
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albinosunlimited;1423288; said:
Erm, I think you mean heat and smell.
With snakes, smell and taste is really all rolled into one, but if you want to get creative about it, the snakes then wouldn't 'taste' the food till it was in its mouth, so either that or smell and the taste is pretty much the same for them.
I did not say all albino tortoises and turtles suffer from blindness, I said many do. Tortoises do not rely on smell for food. They rely mostly on sight. Having kept many myself, I know that you could bury aload of food under the soil and a tortoise would not find it (unless already digging in that area) however once they see food they will head straight for it. Sight is the main way to find food for tortoises as smell is in snakes.
Anyway, I'm stopping with the bickering.
My point was not how animals find their food, only that I was asking whether you knew alot/many albino tortoises and turtles can and do suffer from blindness and this will hinder their natural ability to find food (with it sometimes resulting in death if care is not taken). And I was more than polite in my question, trying to help a fellow herper with advice that he may or may not already know, so how about a thanks, and whether you did or didn't already know it rather than point scoring?
Like I said. Very cute turtles.
i keep the snappers in there own tubs just because the get a little worked up when they eat and i dont want them missing the food and nipping each other
