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I've been rotating Sputniks food for the past two weeks or so. Every other day I give him one or two less pellets and throw in a leaf of romain lettice. He'll gnaw on the lettice all day. After he gets his fill I'm pretty sure he just thrashs it around to feel tough or something. On non lettice day I give him his regular share of pellets.

Anyway, yesterday was a non-lettice day, but later in the evening I decided to try to give him some carrots. I had thrown in some baby carrots before, but he never touched them. I don't have a clamp to hold them down, so I think he got tired of trying to bite into a moving object. Well yesterday I chopped up a carrot into thin slices and threw one in there. He grabbed the tinny saucer looking piece and swam like crazy trying to moisten it.

I got a little paranoid and thought he'd try to eat the thing whole. So I picked him up and tried to get the carrot out of his mouth. Well, needless to say it was HIS carrot and it would remain HIS carrot. Further observation would reveal that those claws do have purpose! After the piece of carrot had been drenched by water, he took his claws and ripped off a piece of carrot with his mouth and held on to the rest of it. Also when I put him back in the tank after trying to get the piece out of his mouth, he swam like hell all over the place. I think I pissed him off, lousy indian giver.

Eatting it he looked like a monkey or some other primate eatting fruit and using it's hindleggs to rip off pieces of food. Good times.

You may now go back to your daily business.

Thanks for the laugh of the day!

Yesterday I was watching one of the feeder guppies giving birth to tiny little babies. Then I was watching Donatello peer into every nook and cranny of his container; under his dock and rocks, around the heater, and through all of his plants. When he came upon one he would watch it for awhile, then creep up onto it, "stocking it" - in the process until he could quickly lunge at it and attempt to catch it! Most of the time he missed - those little things can dart away so fast! It was a very funny scenario! (although a bit cruel for the guppy babies)

LOL, Velvet Alley!

When my RES first started eating veggies, I got her to eat a few different things, then I decided to try a boiled a sweet potato. My turt is an adult (very BIG) with big powerful jaws, so I feed her with a small metal baby spoon when I feed her mushy foods, like cat food or flaked fish. She followed me in the kitchen, I put her in her pan of water & came at her with some sweet potato on the spoon. She clamped down on the spoon so hard, and would NOT let me have my spoon back!!! I almost lifted her *completely* out of the water (with the spoon in her mouth) before she would let go after clamping down on that yummy, yummy sweet potato!!!!!!

I am just glad that wasn't my FINGER.......LOL!

Many years ago, she actually yanked the spoon out of my hand and tried to swim away with it! :LOL:

My RES will sometimes inadvertently pierce a carrot peel with his claws and take bites of it as he waves it around. It looks like he's eating with his paws.

marisa wrote:My RES will sometimes inadvertently pierce a carrot peel with his claws and take bites of it as he waves it around. It looks like he's eating with his paws.

It's like a veggie-kabob!

Yes. I'm waiting for him to bite a tip of his nail off as well when he gets to the end of it.