Out of these, which is the best for baby aquatic turtles to eat and why is it (ingredients and vitamins wise)?

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Nature Zone Aquatic turtle soft moist bites.

Fluker's Aquatic turtle diet.

T-Rex aquatic turtle dry formula.

O.S.I. Aquatic Turtle floating pellets.

Pretty Pets Aquatic turtle food.

Fluker's Buffet Blend for aquatic turtles.

Zilla fortified aquatic turtle food.

Jurassi-diet aquatic turtle food.

Zoo Med Natural aquatic turtle food - hatchling formula.

Nutrafin Basix Floating turtle gammarus pellets.

Pro Balance Turtle food diet.

Rep-Cal Aquatic turtle food.

Wardley Reptile Premium Aquatic turtle sticks.

Reptile-Life aquatic turtle food.

Reptomin aquatic turtle food.

Reptomin aquatic turtle select-a-food.

HBH turtle bites - shell conditioning formula.

Wardley turtle food flakes.

Nutrafin MAX turtle grammarus pellets.

Hikari Turtle sticks.

There are SO many choices and I don't know which one to choose, can someone help me figure out which are the best ones (I would like for there to be like 2 or 3 "best choices" so I can rotate a little bit) I am also thinking about buying my turtle Zoo Med's Can o' foods, like mini crickets, mini mealies, etc. Right now he's eating wardley stick food and worms and peices of chicken liver, but I recently read that wardley supposedly isn't good food or something, so of the ones listed, which are the best ones? Thanks a bunch for your help.

Answer 1

My answer is "none of the above". The best food is live: earthworms, fishes (not goldfish [too fatty] but guppies are good), and soft-bodied insects. Strips of liver dusted in bonemeal are almost as good. Pellets and such won't kill the turtles but you can do a lot better for the money.

Answer 2

Throughout my years as an aquatic (painted) turtle owner, I have used Reptomin Floating Food Sticks.  With my first turtle I had no other options and it did work well.  It was also inexpensive and easy to find.  I doubt my turtle would care what brand I used.  I'm not sure as far as nutritional value-but as I said, my turtles never had an health issues.  Of course make sure they have access to sunlight, lots of room and a clean environment.  As my turtle grew or when I had a larger turtle I also fed them feeder fish from the pet store.  Occasionally I would throw in insects I found around the house and they were always interested.  I would stay away from flakes-they are messy and a hatchling I had did just fine with the food sticks.  Hope this helps.  You could also give your vet a call or a local herp society for more specific info.

Answer 3

OK. if you want your turtle to get old and be healthy like mine....they eat guppies and goldfish and minnow..for calcium!

They need leafy greens to get their vitamins!

Serve them the cereal (dried tubiflex cubes,krill,shrimp,meal worms, garden worms for a treat.But in the wild they eat the little fish and dig for worms in the bottom of the rivers, streams and ponds..and eat all the leafy greens they can find and anything that moves or crawls that they can catch.

Get romaine,butter lettuce, spinach,kale..

They bask 8 to 1-0  hrs plus , as long as thier is sun they will sun bathe and take a dip to cool off and get a bite to eat and then bask again..they get vitamion D from the sun..

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email me if ya want to talk,K..