Habitat - Indoor :: Turtle Eating Dock

[Heinecken]

so i have 5 baby RES in my aquarium, and one of them for some reason started trying to eat the turtle dock. Will he get sick? i kno that now i have to build a basking area, but until then this is all i have.

[emma]

Mine have tried to eat it too, but with no luck. I dont think hatchling turtles can eat and actually break the turtle dock, but adults can. So I would think that the turtle dock will be OK for a while. Your turtle is just seeing what kind of things are edible and what isn't. It would be really cool though if you could build an upper basking area later on.

[Heinecken]

yea thats what im planning but its a 125 gallon tank so it kinda takes some time

[marisa]

Try getting some extra calcium in his diet, either with very small pieces of cuttlebone in the tank or with a nonphosphorus calcium supplement. He could be just curious, but sometimes trying to eat docks (and other objects) can be a sign that he's looking for more calcium.