Feeding and Nutrition :: Hand Feeding

[novroz]

Just want to share my Kame, she can eats a small size food without biting my finger. she can control her distance really good.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XagauPw7tEw[/youtube]

[Melvira_Fox]

novroz, that's amazing! She seems so calm and well-mannered.

[Ranger The Red Ear Slider]

Yeah thats cool! i think i might try that with my turtle.
And what are you feeding her?

[novroz]

@Melvira thx yeah she is so calm whenever I fed her even thought she looks so eager when she sees me carrying the food. But my other turtle, Kroten, does the opposite thing...she still bites me tho the food is quite long.

@Ranger be careful, different turtles different behaviour
I was feeding her with cuttlebone.

[Ranger The Red Ear Slider]

Oh!
Yeah i hand fed my RES today with some carrots he came up slowly then took it and ate it i dropped one of the carrots before he could get it and he bit me a few times before he found out i wasn't food haha but they where small little bites.
And my RES hates cuttle bone lol he never touches it.

[seano997]

I hand feed lettuce to Zipper. I'll hold it in the water a bit and she'll bite off bits at a time. It's fun when she bites it but doesn't cut it all the way through and I can pull her around a bit in the water.

[novroz]

@Ranger if he doesn't like cuttlebone, what are you feeding her as her calsium suplemen?

@Seano hahaha it's fun being bitten? ah I wish I can say the same thing when Kroten bites me

[Melvira_Fox]

Turtlekeeper48, I have the same problem with Sid. My mom taught her to be handfed so now she begs for it. I put the food in her tank and it just falls around her head and she splashes like crazy. I'm trying to teach her to follow my finger to the food so she stops being such a spaz, but then she just tries to nip my finger through the glass because now "finger=where-the-food-is-at".

On the other hand, Korma is very calm about feeding (except when she got carrots today). My husband brags about handfeeding her. She eats very daintily compared to Sid.

[seano997]

@Seano hahaha it's fun being bitten? ah I wish I can say the same thing when Kroten bites me

lol I've never been bitten by her. I guess I should have said when she bites the lettuce and doesn't cut it all the way through. That's what I pull her around with.

[novroz]

Ah...I see yeah that is fun, I like doing it too

Kroten once bit me so eagerly and took away a bit of my skin. I'm trying hard to teach her to be like Kame....but Just like people, they have opposite behaviour.

[seano997]

It's pretty amazing how well you do with your turtles regardless!

[Ranger The Red Ear Slider]

@Ranger if he doesn't like cuttlebone, what are you feeding her as her calsium suplemen?

@Seano hahaha it's fun being bitten? ah I wish I can say the same thing when Kroten bites me

I feed him gut loaded crickets

[novroz]

@Seano97: Thank you Seano

@Ranger: Ah I see, but if I'm not mistaken, it has high protein...would it cause pyramiding?

[Sir Max]

I do this

i have done it for months..butt now everytime i reach towards him he thinks i have food haha..its a great bond and its adorable when he does it you just gota be carefull he doesnt nip ya

[TartarugaVerde]

yeah high protein... easy on those