I was hand feeding optimal last night and was feeling guilty. I think I unintentionally 'domesticated' my painted turtles!! Before you could not get within 20 feet of the turtle and they were gone to the bottom. Now once the feed starts hitting the water they are actually swimming towards me!! They just stop and pop their head out and watch to see where the next pellet might land and then they swim like mad over to it to try to grab it before a zooming RES or YP comes up and snaps it out of the water from in front of them.
On one hand I'm glad they like the food, on the other hand, if the turtles and their young only learn how to eat fish pellets they may not do so well on their own in another pond
