Hello all,
I bought a baby RES 11 days ago. I chose it from the tank because it was the most active one. The guy at the pet shop said to feed it about 3 pellets once a day. The pellet brand he sold me is Aquafin Professional.
For the first 2 days or so, it didn't want to eat anything. Its 'home' is a sort of dinky plastic container about 10 inches wide that has a basking area. After about 3 days, it began eating the pellets, which I break in half so it'll be easier to eat.
But now for the past 3 days or so, it refused to eat again. When I last saw it eat, my mom also dropped small pieces of radish leaves inside. I'm not sure if it ate some of the radish leaves. Right now it completely ignores the pellets and tends to sleep a lot. I panicked a couple of days ago because it didn't seem to want to wake up. I thought it might be injured or sick because my brother likes taking it out of its 'home' and lets it walk all over his bed.
So it basically sleeps a lot, or keeps its eyes closed... but when it's awake it's pretty active and thrashes around the small wading area and looks at me when I call its name. When it's asleep, the head doesn't droop or anything and sometimes it stretches its neck and legs out. But I think it sleeps an awful lot :c It'd wake up and then fall asleep/close its eyes again after a few minutes. And I'm really worried that it hasn't eaten for some days now, especially since it used to eat before that. And sometimes it opens its mouth at me then closes it again. When it wakes up sometimes only one eye is open but the other eye opens too. Is my turtle sick?
I'll buy Pedialyte today.