Russian Tortoise overfeeding

Question
Hello, my boyfriend and I recently aquired a handsome Russian Tortoise who is is little piggy piggy! He is so used to seeing my hand in his habitat either to pick him up and let him roam around or during his feeding. If I don't feed him every day the little bugger gets snippy and sits on top of his food dish waiting. He has even bitten me I think out of spite. Kind of a "feed me you stupid human" thing. How much food is TOO much and what is your recomended feeding schedule? He trained me to his liking and no book that I can find will give me a straight answer.

Answer
No book gicvs a straight answer because there is not one 'right' answer.

The rule of thumb I follow is this:

Serving size: I usually go with about 1/4-1/2 cup for an adult except for 'forage' (grasses, hay, flowers, leaves, etc.), which I always lust leave a pile of.

Leave food until it 'turns'. Again, forage usually stays all the time until I replace it.

Schedule- I feed babies daily, young turtles every couple days, and adults every 3 days- again with forage always available. I add vitamins and calcium supplements to the main meals.

If yours is used to more frequent feedings, I'd probably phase them off with a big pile of forage and shrinking servings of other stuff- normal, light, lighter, normal, lighter, really light, normal, snack, smaller snack, normal, nothing...

Oh, and I do often give into a begging turtle- but try to offer 'healthy' snacks- a single strawberry or marigold flower, for example.

Try http://www.russiantortoise.org or http?www.austinsturtlepage.com for more ideas.