How do I introduce my 2 turtles to vegetables and other food besides pellet turtle food.?

Question

I have a 4 yr old red eared turtle also about a 2 year old red eared that was given to me a few months ago.I have just recemtly heard that it is best to feed them a combonation of pellet food vegetables and prien like fish crickets and worms.how do I get them to eat this after so long of not eating this.

Answer 1

Proper diet should be a mix of 25-50% high-quality pellets. The rest should be about mostly proteins- live or frozen/thawed worms, bugs, beef heart, shrimp, small fish, etc. The vegetables should be mostly dark leafy greens and aquatic plants.

Introducing them to your turtle is annoying but not hard. Every day offer a new item but none of his usual stuff. The annoying part is that you should offer as many different kinds of new things as possible.

If it does not eat in about a week, offer some pellets, but not a lot of them.

For help with care and foods, try http://www.austinsturtlepage.com

Answer 2

I offer my turtles lettuce and leafy veggies, just float it in their water like they would find vegetation in the wild. However, in all my years I cannot actually say I've ever seen one take to the veggies. Tortoises tend to be more veggie oriented then water turtles. Give them live minnows or guppies every now and then as a treat, or even live crayfish and with the prepared food they should be good. Mine also like a rare treat of dry cat food (mostly fish meal and cereal) or canned cat food. Canned Cat food is a little trickier to "serve", I put a spot on their basking rock and they drag what they get in their mouth under. You wouldn't want to just plop it in the water, but the turtle needs to be in the water to actually eat.

Answer 3

try these other suggestions but from my experience water turtles don't usually eat fruits and very few vegetables
try some live foods, like crickets, worms and bugs

Answer 4

just give it 2 them when they r hungry they will automatically eat it first they may not keep doing tht n they will slowly slowly adapt 2 it dont just give tht wht u want 2 only give the other food which they r used 2 a lil bit n more of these wht u wanna give n the other food which they r used 2 start giving it once a day so they will get used 2 wht u want them 2 eat.

Answer 5

I feed my little box turtle scraps from my plate. She likes corn, cornbread, lettuce every now and then, and the rest, pasta and fruit. They tend to go for the sweet foods.

Answer 6

slowly start adding vegetables to it's diet and inctease the amount and it will get used to it over time