Turtle feeding??????

Question

what kind of other foods can i feed my yellow bellied slider??? can i feed it bread? (plz no answers on how to care for them because i already know how to ) i have been feeding it reptomin sticks and krill and shrimp. i have tried feeding her beets, bananas, and carrots, she is only 3 so i am thinking that she will eat more meats than veggies, i know some other things i can feed them but a list of a lot of things would be nice.. thanks for your help.

Answer 1

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The bigger the environment the bigger the healthier the turtle. Remember 10 gallons for every inch of turtle. I have used kiddy pools and plastic pond liners from most nurseries and worked great.

Did you know that they need to bask under a reptile light UVA/UVB for 8 to 10 hrs a day for the vitamin D that they need to grow. So that means getting a turtle dock also.

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.

Total Body length: 5-8" average, up to 12 inches max. Life span: 15-25+ years

Males have the longer front nails and are used in mating. And are considered mature at about 5 yrs old. You can’t start sexing till about  3” across.

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 in a few days!

This way when they swim for their dinner they get exercise also!

They sleep at the bottom of rivers, streams. lakes or ponds or your tank to avoid predators like coyotes,  foxes, owls, hawks, possums, raccoons and even some wide mouth bass.

TOSS in a bird cuttle bone in the water for calcium. it will dissolve real slow and if they eat it that’s fine!!

They can have garden worms, meal worms, crickets, flies, crayfish small frogs, dragon flies and  anything that moves only as a treat.

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 from their nose.

**Swollen cloudy eyes means lacking in Vitamin A. Which we all need for good eyes. Google ‘vegetables with Vitamin A.

I wish you luck.

Contact the “www.anapsid.org/societies, for a turtle vet /  rescue in your city and state.

Answer 2

They LOVE anachris! There is a frozen cube that has veggies and meat that most also like. Crix, worms (of many kinds), other aquatic plants and lettuce, live fish (you can get frozen silversides too), algae wafers, fish food....hope this helps

Answer 3

I feed my turtles any flying insect I can get my hands (or fly swater) on. They also eat lettuce, cooked carots,

cooked broccoli, once in a while tomato, shrimp, worms,and crickets.

Hope this helps. Snowfire  

Answer 4

i wouldn't feed it bread as it sticks to it's stomack and will give it a stomach clog i've had turtles for nine years

Answer 5

No bread. Go very easy on the vegetables; maybe some dark green leafy vegetables now and then. The best food is live: earthworms, fishes (not goldfish), and soft-bodied insects. Strips of liver dusted in bone meal are good too.

Answer 6

Use a variety of different kinds of pellets.  Also feeder fish like minnows and guppies (goldfish carry too many parasites).  Water plants, mealworms, crickets.  Do not feed wild caught insects as they may have been exposed to pesticides and fertilizers which are harmful to the turtle.  

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