My baby EPT just recently stopped eating. I thought maybe at first, he just couldn't find the food, but he won't take it from my hand either. He looks interested in it, looks like he wants to eat it and even gets all excited when i get the food, but never makes a move for it. Any ideas on whats wrong or what i can do about it is appreciated!
Baby EPT wont eat! Help!
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lol i thought is said box turtle......im seeing things?
just some stuff: water temp around 80-82. heat bulb with a basking spot of 90-100. full spectrum bulb. also, this time of yr most of them are hibernating. even inside they can sense it. put your lights on a timer. 14 hrs on and 10 off. make sure you have a filter. i would have a 10 gallon aquarium minimum. keep that water temp up with a heater. keep tank away from window/door (cold drafts). feed it worms and insects. pellet foods like reptomin very good also. might also eat some greens (water plants: anacharis) or try collard or turnip greens. if you are handleing it every day cut it out. is your turtle new? maybe its still getting use to its new environment, another reason to leave it be for a while
just some stuff: water temp around 80-82. heat bulb with a basking spot of 90-100. full spectrum bulb. also, this time of yr most of them are hibernating. even inside they can sense it. put your lights on a timer. 14 hrs on and 10 off. make sure you have a filter. i would have a 10 gallon aquarium minimum. keep that water temp up with a heater. keep tank away from window/door (cold drafts). feed it worms and insects. pellet foods like reptomin very good also. might also eat some greens (water plants: anacharis) or try collard or turnip greens. if you are handleing it every day cut it out. is your turtle new? maybe its still getting use to its new environment, another reason to leave it be for a while
phantoms;1538113; said:
Thanks! I really need to get some thermometers... I'll fix his timer, he has a filter, he's in a 10 gal (til we have money for bigger), the light actually sometimes overheats the water so a heater isnt necessary, we do feed him pellets and whatever lil critters we can manage, he doesn't like greens, i don't handle him often, and he's not that new (got him last august). Wow. that was a mouthful.
Thanks to everyone else, too!
id still get a heater in the tank so that when the basking lights go off the water temp doesnt drop. if the heat bulb heats it to 80 during the day that is fine, the heater wont turn on then. but at night when your lights go off the heater will turn on and keep that water warm. id get a temp gun so you can get an accurate reading on that basking spot