What human-food can i feed my turtle?

Question

What human-food can i feed my turtle?

Answer 1

You can feed it lettuce and most vegetables like carrots.

Answer 2

my turtle likes raw chicken raw steak and raw ground beef. also cheese hot dogs potato bread. corn pops fruit loops... i could go on forever   he gets a piece of whatever i eat  but i also give him turtle pellets

Answer 3

umm most vegetables

Answer 4

If you have a small turtle, the best foods are fish or strips of liver dusted in bone meal. Yeah, I know. Bone meal is not "human-food"; it's just cheaper than a calcium supplement tablet. At least I don't consider crickets and worms to be human-food. Adult turtles may accept dark green leafy vegetables. Skip the head lettuce.

Answer 5

they eay all kinds of veggie

they eat corn , tomatoes,wild berrys,cucumbers, anything like that we have one it eats any kind od veggis we give it

Answer 6

I think they can eat lettuce...at least the one we used to have when I was a kid did. Cecil loved lettuce :) ! He was a tiny thing at first, then got so big we had to release him in a nice pond with the other turtles :(.

I agree with the previous person; call and ask a vet to be sure what food is healthy for a turtle.

He/She will probably need a little variety, and I'm sure they would need the nutrients from packaged turtle food even if turtles can eat certain people food...

Take care :)

Answer 7

you can feed your turtle lettuce

Answer 8

Human food..all veggies with vitamin A. All leafy greens.Google vitamin A foods.

They can have garden worms, meal worms, snails, crickets, flies, crayfish small frogs, dragon flies and  anything that moves, but 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.

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. These turtles in captivity do not hibernate their eating may slow down some but they will not hibernate.

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! When I got these two 36 yrs ago all we had in back then  were goldfish to feed , so after 36 yrs and still going strong. They can eat goldfish! I spend about 175.00 a month on fish ,goldfish and minnows. An Extra  75.00 on leafy greens and dried cubed tubiflex worms.

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 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.

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

I wish you luck.

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Answer 9

call a pet store near you.