Food for my Yellow-Eared Slider?

Question

As of right now I am feeding my YES Bloodworms, turtrle treats, and a mix of HBH pellets, color enhancer pellets, and a common turtle pellet.

I'll occasionally give him some cucumber.

What I want to know is in depth what else can I feed him. Live foods, freeze dried, veggies, fruits all that.

Answer 1

well first of all it is a yellow bellied slider and they can eat

Greens- aquatic plants (duckweed, water lettuce) watercresws, collards, turnip greens, romaine lettuce dandelion (no pesticedes), chickweed, plantain weed, carrot tops, red clover, endive, fig leaves, grape leaves, sow thistle, tufted vetch   again NO pesticides on any of their greens or other food

Veggies-squash, peas in the pod, okra, grated or sliced carrots, sweet potatoes, beets, green beans, wax beens, corn

Fruits- (occasional)- figs, grapes, blueberries, cantaloupe, blackberries, tomato, bananas, strawberries, apples, citrus fruits, mango, kiwi, pumpkin

Meats- silkworms, earthworms, waxworms, crickets, snails, shrimp, slugs, mealworms, feeder fish (guppies) NO goldfish as they are too high in fat

One turtle needs at least a 40 gallon breeder tank because they get big when they are full grown, the depth of the water has to be at least the width of its shell, or 10 gallons per inch of shell, they need uva/uvb lamps, and a proper basking area to get out of the water and dry off

here are the temps

water- 75-78 degrees

air 75-80 degrees

basking area-85-90 degrees

i do not reccomend taking wild animals out of the wild and keeping them as pets as most of the time they do not survive very long. but since you have had him over a year it might be best to keep it

Answer 2

In the wild they eat Fish and leafy greens..

Did you know that they need to bask under a reptile light UVA for 8 to 10 hrs a day for the vitamin D that they need to grow. So that means getting a turtle dock also. A BIG tank ayt least  a 55 gallon..

Leave the heater on 75 to 78 degrees always.

Their water needs to be clean otherwise they get sick easily from dirty water cause they p**p allot.

You need a good filter system! Gravel larger than they can swallow.

You need to feed them feeder guppies, goldfish or minnows for protein and calcium daily drop 20 or so in the tanks and watch them disappear! This way when they swim for their dinner they get exercise also!

They can have garden worm, meal worms, crickets, flies anything that moves!

They need leafy greens Romaine, Butter lettuce. (Iceberg and cabbage are bad for them, any other leafy greens will do) for vitamin A that they need at least 3 to 4 times a week.

You probably already know that they get sick easily, shell rot, respiratory sickness, lopsided swimming, coughing, blowing bubbles, Swollen cloudy eyes means lacking in Vitamin A. Which we all need for good eyes. Google ‘vegetables that Vitamin A’.

**Red-eared sliders, Gender especially juveniles, can be difficult to s*x. Gender in adults is determined by external physical characteristics and behavior. Males have longer fore claws (which are use in courtship), a longer tail length. Males are smaller in size and shell length. Turtles are considered juveniles till after 5 yrs old.

Walmart sells a 55 gallon tank with hood, light and decent filter for $153.00. You would need to buy some extra stuff, but that is a cheap tank set up with a good filter. You still need the rep light and large enough gravel they can’t swallow., and a dock…and fish and rep food.

I have used kiddy pools and plastic pond liners from most nurseries..

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Answer 3

take out the turtle treats and stop feeding soo many pellets! Pellets are loaded with high protien and high fat, so they should only be used 2x a week. they eat, crickets, mealworms, bloodworms, shrimp, krill , etc.

For the veggies they should be fed kale, mustard greens, collard greens, romaine lettuce( never iceberg, empty nutrition) The protien portion of the diet(crickets,mealworms, shrimp) should be dusted with a calcium supplement 2x weekly. Feed the turtle every other day, as much as he can eat in 10 minutes, do not overfeed! Half his diet should be protien, the other half veggies. Fruits, should hardly be fed since it causes constipation. Dont feed cucumbers either(no nutrition).