Can turtles eat cumcumbers?

Question

I have two yellow belly sliders about the size of a silver dollar.
They love to eat and especially like romaine lettuce, I would like to expand their diet with other veggies. What are good things to start with?

Answer 1

Yes, sliders can and will eat veggies. However, you want to be careful what veggies you feed. You don't want to feed anything with a high water content (this is especially true with land tortoises but can be true to come degrees with sliders). Feed romaine lettuce, sweet potatoes, yellow squash, green beans. Don't feed tomatoes, leaf (head) lettuce. You can cut them up and slice them to make them easier to eat or you can let them tear them up. Personally, I also cut them because I didn't like to clean up pieces of food everywhere.

Answer 2

Small Yellow-bellies should eat MOSTLY meats for the first couple of years.

A good captive diet would consist of about 1/2 good quality turtle pellets, and an assortment of 'fish foods' like worms, bugs, crickets, snails, small fish, shrimp or other shellfish, etc., some 'human meats' like beef heart or cooked chicken.

A small part of the diet can be dark leafy greens, most vegetables, and a little fruit. A lot of common aquarium plants are great! This part will grow in importance as the turtles get bigger.

Dietary variety is good, but we need to make sure that the foods are appropriate for the animal and their stage of life.

A couple great sites to try are-
http://www.redearslider.com (a near relative species)
http://www.austinsturtlepage.com (a great general turtle site)

Answer 3

Turtles are very PICKY eaters and only eat food that they know they will enjoy. Cucumbers are very good for almost all reptiles because of its high content of riboflavin which helps keep their skin and shells stay healthy- same goes for humans and our nails.

i would recommend that you add some zuccini as well to his diet, i'm sure your little guy would love that too.

Answer 4

ya my turtle loves cumcumbers

Answer 5

yes my tortoise eats it so why not a turtle,try tomato apple any salad stuff if it doesnt like it it wont eat it