Does anyone else have this with their redfoot tortoise?

Question

I have a fairly younger male redfoot, 3 yrs or so. When he eats, he struggles. He doesnt seem to know where the food is in reference to his head and somtimes he misses and bites thin air, is this normal? he is a fine weight and ends up getting the food down fine, its just slow.

Answer 1

i have a tortoises who do this, as long as your tortoise can still feed then i would not be too worried just keep an eye on it and if it stops eating then get the sight checked out by a reptile vet, but usually it is normal for some tortoises to do this when they are eating so i would not be worried