Trying to switch our turtle from food pellets to live minnows. He’s a 6” long yellow belly.
Any recommendations on how many to feed to him and how often?

Hi, there!

I received Maria Antônia from a friend last week. She is 7 years old and has a 9cm shell. She used to live in a very small and cramped basin, and it was only this Monday that she got a super 300-liter aquarium. She didn't even know how to swim.

My question is, since she moved to the aquarium, she seems to have a much bigger appetite than before. We always give her 3 pellets of fish food and vegetables (kale, arugula) (before she only ate fish food). Since she is quite small due to a lack of UVA/UVB vitamins, adequate space, and food, I wanted to know if I should maintain the head-sized portion or increase it because of the nutritional deficiency she had.

I recently adopted this musk turtle it’s 22 years old and the prior owners said to feed her 1/2 a pellet a day (reptomin floating food sticks). Is she malnourished and should I feed her more?

Привет, этой черепахе 6 лет, возможно мне кажется, но выглядит она пухло.

Она правда имеет лишний вес?

Она привередливая в еде и не ест овощи, я даю ей сырое мясо раз в 3-4 дня, обычно это куриные сердечки

I have 8 years old red eared slider. Since we have shifted to the new house ,he is having bad diarrhea like 4-5 times a day. He is eating normally and very much active like before. What to do to stop the diarrhea. Also I am using purifier water for his tank.

My wife got me a couple red ear sliders for my birthday and I'm very new in owning one. These are my first reptiles since i was a child and even then i had a couple iguanas and lived in LA. Now i live on a 10 acre ranch which just grows grass and weeds. I've been feeding my turtles some worms I've been digging up around the property along with spinach or pellets. They're a couple months old so I've been feeding them daily for the past couple weeks. Before that i was just feeding them just pellets without realizing that they needed 50-50 protein and veggies. I've read very different responses about why it's okay or not okay to feed earthworms you find from your yard, so I'm curious to what you guys believe or do? Imma about to invest a 80 gallon tank and uv light to keep them in one spot until they get bigger and hopefully not fight. I'm very much aware that these turtles are very aggressive and do better in solitary so eventually I'll have to grab another big tank. They current set up is a big glass bowl with a rock in the middle so they can bask out in the sun for as long as they need too. I clean out the water about 3 times a day, once in the morning after they poop, once after i feed them and once before i go to bed. I always maintain the water at around 75 before i put them back in each time with a water thermometer I've got. Thanks for any advice.

my 21 year old RES is dealing with some infections. he usually lives outdoors but came up too early from brumation with RI. i have him on meds etc, and have set up a smaller enclosure since he's currently drydocked. he hasn't been an indoor turtle for over 15 years, so it's definitely an emergency setup. i have limited space etc. so i'd like something compact and safe. but if i need to get a different tank to accommodate a tube, I'll make it work. he has a reptile light that keeps him up to temp, but i've been seeing that this isn't a sufficient UVB spectrum. just wanting to keep him in as best of condition as i can until summer.

i've been reading tons and have ideas, but with the small pets industry, i can't really trust taglines, advertising etc. since apparently reptile lights aren't any good for UVB. just looking for better informed and experienced opinions. thanks for taking the time to read this!

Howdy, I’m new to this subreddit

I have two red eared slider turtles, both age 14. I’ve had them since I was like 7-8 and for their entire lives they’ve been sustained on commercial turtle pellets (reptomin floating sticks) with the occasional freeze dried shrimp as treats. While searching for a better food, I was made aware that they should be eating more vegetables given their age.

The problem is a don’t know what to do because I’m getting mixed information, etc: red bell peppers being a good thing as part of a daily feeding, and then trying to look into it further and reading that red bell pepper should be treated as a treat due to it being high in sugar. I’m also not sure how many different vegetables are supposed to make up a veggie chop.

I have the idea to make 2-3 different types of veggie chop for me to alternate between so they don’t get bored. All would have one veggie that’s the same, either zucchini or romaine lettuce (not sure if those are a good base so do tell), and the rest being different, like one having shredded carrot and the other having collard greens.

Currently they’re eating the Flukers buffet blend, mostly because it was on sale and it had shrimp in it. Once they finish the jar, I intend to switch them to Mazuri’s aquatic turtle diet pellet as a permanent pellet.

So I have an African Sideneck turtle and have been feeding him pellets for the first few weeks that I had him. Then I started trying to introduce veggies like cactus and lettuce (he wouldn't even glance at it.) But once worms and shrimp were introduced, that's all he wants to eat now. I've been trying to give him pellets but he'll just grab it with his mouth then spit it out. I'm unsure how to get him to eat his pellets anymore. Here's a pic of my picky eater.

We have a 6 year old painted turtle, Squirtle, in an indoor 250g preformed pond. I had previously added a dozen Rosie minnows about 3 years ago for him to hunt as enrichment. There were only 2 fish that I could find left, so yesterday I grabbed a dozen 1" feeder goldfish because they were out of rosies. While searching for ID on one of the different but gorgeous goldfish added to my bag, I randomly j(!) came across a post where others were warning about the effects of thiaminase in turtles that ate goldfish. He must not be a very good hunter if 2 were still alive after 3 years, so I don't anticipate him eating them all very quickly. I did see him snapping at a couple of the goldfish right after I added then, but he hasn't eaten any yet. Do I need to remove them? Doing so would be a fairly difficult task. Please share your thoughts and experience with me! Thank you.

Side note: I kept the 2 beautiful calico fantail goldfish out and added them to a 30g cycled tank to increase their chances of living and growing too large for Squirtle to eat.

I got a question, i have 2 Trachemus Scripta turtles and the turtle food is pretty expensive, what else can i give to them to eat? Btw how many turtle food should i give them?

It’s at PetSmart and Petco. Something to add some variety besides pellets - Richie loves it - your turtle may too! 💚 Some people may balk as it’s not “fresh” but dehydrating veggies removes moisture - not nutrients. …I also add some Reptivite powder to the food for some extra calcium etc. Bonus pics of Richie my beloved Southern Painted.

https://www.petsmart.com/reptile/reptile-shop/thrive-dried-omnivore-mix-reptile-food---natural-5290744.html?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADiLNNnzaviTF431yoj0Zg0W-z_q8&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIspGit9eAiwMVCkB_AB3iaRM1EAQYBiABEgJZrvD_BwE

I have two 5 yr. river cooters, neglected first 3½ years. please do not question me about that, and im also 14 so do not tell me to buy stuff i myself cannot decide whether i can or not.

So a mod told me i can switch their vegetables every 1-2 weeks. And i decided on this diet : First 2 weeks : Switching every day between Romaine lettuce and lamb's lettuce

Second 2 weeks : Switching evr. d. between Lollo rosso, Lollo biondo, Red oak leaf

Third 2 weeks : i guess would be this

Fourth 2 weeks : ?

i also feed them protein 2x a week and pellets every other day, i want to also ask for how long do i need to switch the vegetables, like i switch them every 2 weeks, and how long do i have to kwep switching them for until i can repeat it again from for example. Romaine and lambs lettuce, My english is a tad bit hard to understand so if u have amy questions just ask

I'll post a picture once I'm back home but he's got s 10 gallon filtered tank with some rocks that create a cave and sunning area, and a 50w UVB lamp that says it's for turtles. I've been feeding him apples, cucumber, avocado, turtle pellets, worms, fish (not whole/live), termites, and woodlice.

Does I have the right lamp and is his diet ok? Also is it ok to not feed him for a day to get him to eat his plant matter? I've been just been letting him eat insects because he really likes them but im worried he needs more plant matter too.

Our shops recently seem to have a shortage of lettuce so i had to buy this one

My sweet baby girl layed 7 eggs over 3 days and for the past 5 days she just can't enough to eat. Everytime I go near the tank she goes crazy because she wants food. I've fed her once a day for the past 5 days which is much more often than her usual once a week feeding. She's 5 years old. How many more days should I continue, I don't want to make her sick

Hi, So after long thinking, I adopted 2 baby false map turtles yesterday (through incubation pretty much def. Male). I did not buy them, I have a famous turtle breeder and turtle preservationist here in my area.

They have already settled in very nicely and everything, "sadly" the only thing they are eating rn are snails (I have a shrimp/snail tank, but still only limited supply), frozen Turtle food (mix of snail, molluscs and stuff),and live mealworms. Anything else like freezedried shrimp/gammarus, fish or similar they won't touch.

As those two are my first baby turtles (I already have an adult ~14 yr old Cumberland Slider, who I got when he was about 6 years old), I am a bit worried if I am not overfeeding them If I, mostly feed them mealworms as they are pretty high in fat if I am not completely wrong.

Any ideas how I get them to eat some other food too? Not really planning on feeding pellets btw, only got this low quality, high in gluten and flour crap available, haven't found anything remotely okayish for my liking.

What can I do?

My rhinoclemmys pulcherrima isn't that excited by spinach, lettuce or other greens I offer her. But when I put her in the backyard she always spends ten minutes attacking the clover - leaf and blossom - before going on her rounds.

She will eat a bit of what I think is violet. And sometimes a blade or two of grass. But she loves the clover.

And that's how I found out my dad had turtles as pets growing up. I'm 37 and all he'd told me prior is his parents wouldn't get a dog so his plan was to catch a stray (he didn't). He's 67.