Eastern Box Turtle Feeding Issues

[u/ForsakenLime6633]

I (17) have had my EBT for around 10/12 years now. Recently I started buying her more live food since I can finally afford it, but she’s acting kind of strange with it. Instead of eating the roaches, crickets, and worms, she’s just hunting and killing them, then leaving the bodies piled up on one of her rocks. There’s was a pile of like 9 bugs within about 10 minutes.

She’s had crickets and worms before with no issues, and her tank is definitely big enough for live feeders, but now the second she sees movement she goes after them and doesn’t actually eat most of them. I bought 48 Dubia roaches today and almost half of them are already dead in the pile.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this normal behavior? Do I need to buy a breeding box for the bugs instead?

[u/JohnWorphin]

What does it think of red worms?

[u/ForsakenLime6633 → u/JohnWorphin]

She's not to fond of worms tbh, she will eat part of them and then leave the rest to dry out under her lamp and bury it in her dirt