I have owned turtles for over ten years and i know how to care for them very well BUT i am not a expert and i have never kept newborns. I have been working in my friends shop for a week just to pick some extra $$$. It is HUGE, well on friday i went for my first day then went home and closed up shop for the weekend. Well come monday i go back to work and in the corner was this LITTLE turtle. All dusty and completely dehydrated and thin. Couldnt have been more then a couple of days old, it still had its egg tooth to get out of its egg. So i grab it (as it could get hurt very easily, lots of chemicals and big machinery moving around. So first thing i do is snag it up and grab a plastic cup and fill it with room temperature drinking water. Well it sat in there for a couple of hours tell time to go home. So we go home and i am thinking were to put him as he needed some serious r-n-r. So my grandmother found a plastic barrel bin in the trash a month or go before. So i used that as i am running low on equipment right now. And sense i am in FL i have the great novelty of being able to stick it outside. Didnt want to stick it in my big pond as i have the thought of birds and it is pretty deep. Now i know it is a cooter. I am having trouble getting it to eat. I have tried worms and crickets. Tonight i am gonna add some small mosquito fish from my pond. But i need help, How would you feed this turtle who is weary of people.
Here is my last second enclosure (only about 1 inch of water)
And here he is after a couple days of r-n-r and looks so much better.
Here is my last second enclosure (only about 1 inch of water)
And here he is after a couple days of r-n-r and looks so much better.
