I have 2 three month old Red Eared Slider turtles and one of them seems to be eating the gravel in the tank a lot. I don't think that he does it because he is hungry because he will do this even right after he has been fed.
I don't think that its very good for them to do this, so is there something I can do to make him stop or is there something he is trying to do?
2007-10-20 14:15:05 · 4 answers · asked by Amanda 1 in Pets ➔ Reptiles
Yes, it happens. My turtle used to "try" to eat the gravel too. I took the gravel out because it was scaring me. I suggest that you take the gravel out of yours too. One accident could be the last.
2007-10-20 16:27:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Having gravel in the tank with turtles is one of the fastest ways to kill them. They will eat the gravel and become fatally impacted. Never use gravel or any other small substrate that can be eaten in a turtle tank. I have seen deaths from this.
2007-10-20 22:52:16 · answer #2 · answered by KimbeeJ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My turtles use to eat the gravel when they were babies too, theres not really a way to stop it you just have to buy bigger rocks for the tank. Turtles tend to eat what ever they can get in their mouth.
2007-10-20 22:01:54 · answer #3 · answered by Mel 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is interesting it might be eating gravel beceause once my dog was vomiting and I pushed its head over the litter box and after that day on he was eating doggie litter like it was the best thing he ever tasted. So what I did was I put hot pepper on one side of it , show it the litter and let it eat from the plain side , next I would take the box and turn it and let it eat from the pepperd side. So he stopped eating the doggie litter. You shoud put something spicy like halapenjo juice . hot peppers, etc. and it probably will stop eating it. ;-)
2007-10-20 23:14:10 · answer #4 · answered by Koolio 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋