What can i give my baby redeyed slider to eat?

Question

Its a baby

Ihave had about 3 they have been diffrent sizes now i would want to be a great pet owner what can be a good treat to eat its real tiny!

Answer 1

Try live blood worms, frozen brine/mysis shrimp, boiled egg yolk and young fish fry.

Answer 2

OK, what NOT to feed it:
- hamburger or any form of beef
- light green lettuce
- cheap packaged foods with dried insect parts or eggs
- too much plant stuff. Babies are mostly carnivores

Your best bet is a high-quality pelleted turtle food or fish food for carnivorous fish (trout chow, for example). You can do live or frozen fish, bugs, worms, etc. as an occasional snack.

Answer 3

You could try meal worms or maggots -- both should be available from a live bait place. Don't use the "Ant eggs" that are sometimes sold as turtle food, they have almost no nutriotive value, and the turtles dont eat them.

Answer 4

awww, how cute. I have a red eared slider, he is about 6 years old. I have always feed him dried up shrimp and reptile food pellets which have vitamins and such in them, occasionally fruit and veggies, that's about all I ever fed him and that's about all he will eat :)

Answer 5

Things that I have fed mine ... Earthworms, crickets, mysis shrimp, feeder fish (grown by me)earthworm pellets, shrimp pellets, pelleted foods designed for south american cichlids.

Fruit and veggies ... apples, pears, strawberries, carrots, zucchini, acorn squash, tomatoes, pumpkin, broccoli, spinach, romain lettuce, and peas

Other things ive seen them eat but didnt feed them ... spiders, moths, earwigs, and beetles.

Bryan

Answer 6

Purina lizard chow.

Answer 7

try raw ground beef, maybe a little romaine lettuce, apples are also good

Answer 8

comercial floating food sticks. most turtles love 'em

Answer 9

they eat turtle pellets and/or cichlid pellets...when they get bigger and older they like lettuce for snacks....

Answer 10

mice and rats