9 inch cooter in a 100 gallon in ground pond. 2 aquarium heaters keep the water in winter 72-76 degrees. Every August she stops eating her turtle food, which she eats by the truckload all spring and summer. I'm sure she wants to hibernate but we have preditors. She is already missing part of a front foot, we think from a Rac attack, so she comes in everynight and sleeps in the closet. Her appetite is always decreased in winter and she gets by on cooked chicken, raw steak, shrimp, worms, snails, slugs etc. I dry rub the people food with vitimans. She has all but stopped eating the last 3 days. The only thing she wants is snails, and this ain't the time of year for them--very few in the yard. She won't even look at her freeze dried krill, her most fav treat. I picked her up this morning, and she felt like a feather. She has been ripping up the lettuce I float for her, but I can't tell if she is eating it. She seems frantic to get out of the pond, I let her out, she runs around and then flings herself back in. She is not herself and this is the first winter I am worried.
Not much basking going on, weather related and the sun is not at a good angle in the yard. Any ideas? This kid can stress me out like no other.
