Feeding and Nutrition :: Baby eating too fast

[cleopold]

My 1" RES Spazz has started wolfing her food so fast that she spit up some of it and then ate it back up. Mmm. She doesn't seem to be upset or disturbed by this. Being a worried mother, I think I will start chopping up her veggies to help get it down easier. I worry that inhaling her daily helping of radicchio and pellets might choke her.

I typically feed her two pellets and radicchio or endive the size of her shell.

I was wondering if anybody has similar difficulties with their ravenous turts.

[Safdar]

1inch turtle is really small
I would cut it up, since hes a baby and it might be a little hard to chew it up and tear it up to eat.

[marisa]

What pellets are you feeding your turtle? If they're regular-size Reptomin, they really should be broken up for a 1" turtle. For small turtles, I try to feed veggies (but not leafy greens like lettuce) that are cut to less than the size of the head. I make very thin peels when I feed carrots.

[RunninWideOpen]

How much are you feeding? A lot of the issues with spitting food back up that I've read also had to do with overfeeding.

[scripta_elegans]

Are you sure she's spitting it up, and not just destroying it into little pieces with her fearsome little bite?

[cleopold]

I don't think I'm overfeeding her. Two pellets which fit in her head and a leafy veg the size of her shell. But she eats all of that within seconds. It might too much food too soon.

LOL about her "fearsome little bite." She definitely spit up the food. She inhaled a nickle sized piece of radicchio. A couple of minutes later she coughed it up looking exactly the same as when she swallowed it.

Thanks for the advice. I've taken to feeding her more slowly and breaking the veggies in smaller bites. I like stretching out feeding time. She is so cute when she eats.

[Tenodera]

LOL Serra had the same problem. She's take a huge bite out of the lettuce and then start scratching at her face and then coughing it out and eating it again.

[Safdar]

Haha Tito does that too