General Care Discussion :: How to tell if my RES is over weight

[shedreamsinred]

Holy chub, Batman!

[Ranger The Red Ear Slider]

Thanks Im glad he's not overweight
I really need to get a eating schedule down for him.
And wow! haha she's a chubby one!

[Melvira_Fox]

She makes Sid look like a pixie...

She needs to stop being so stubborn and deal with her diet. lol.

[Ranger The Red Ear Slider]

haha take her on walks!
if thats even possible.

[shedreamsinred]

She's no less adorable for the chub, but yeah. Diet and exercise, poor dear.

[Ranger The Red Ear Slider]

What kind of food you give her for the diet?

[novroz]

Wow..so many comments, lol.

@Melvira she is already been in a straight diet for the last 2 years...but it's hard for turtle to lose weight.

@shedreams Diet (check) Excersise (check) fat: still there

@Ranger before I found this forum (2 years ago) I have no idea how to take care a turtle, I thought she only eat meat...and that was how I fed her. Chicken, fish, shrimp and pellet. She also has slight pyramiding (I was such a bad mother)...but her pyramiding has decreased now the fat is still there tho

[Ranger The Red Ear Slider]

Yeah same here i thought my turtle just ate pellets everyday and all day to but thank god i found this forum in enough time

[novroz]

A lot of people missunderstand about their diet. Because of my mistake, I write a special series of How To Treat Your Turtle in my native languange...because a lot of Indonesian still wrongly treat their turtle.

This forum has help us a lot!!

[Ranger The Red Ear Slider]

Wow! thats cool being indonesian and yeah allot of people think turtles are just like gold fish and just eat one type of food but really they need different kinds to be healthy and live long.

[novroz]

Thank you

Yeah that's why I try to make people aware and they can treat their turtle properly