mississippi map turtle food?

Question

ok, i was wondering if i could feed my turtle food like...frogs, crayfish, all those type of things, i know all the stuff on when to feed them and what times, i just want to know that stuff.

Answer 1

Map's have a very similar diet to any aquatic turtle. You can feed him/her frogs and/or minnows and other live foods if you wish to, just be prepared to do a good cleaning after it eats. My sliders and painteds love the occasional live frog or other live food treat. I'd be careful with crayfish, it could potentially harm or kill the turtle depending on the size of both animals.

Here's a list of the things my turtles enjoy on a regular to semi-regular basis.

Live Frogs
Live Fish
Thawed out Frozen Fish
Earth Worms
Night Crawlers
Dried Crickets
Live Crickets
Live Mealworms/Superworms
ReptoMin (that's the green & yellow canned dry food at your local pet store)

PS. Map Turtles are cool ;)

Just wanted to add to this after reading another persons responce. a turtle will NOT get a respiratory infection / pneumonia from being cold. It WILL get a RI from coming in contact with a person who has a cold/flu etc. Please, if you value your turtle's life, wash your hands before you handle them and do not handle them if you are sick or feel you may have a cold. If by some chance your turtle ever gets a RI, take them to a herp vet asap. An RI can be cured with Baytril injections (but giving a turtle shots isn't very fun).

Answer 2

We feed our mississippi map turtle pretty much everthing. Spinach, lettuce, gut loaded crickets, snails and pellets. To keep your turtle from growing too quickly and becoming fat and disfigured, I recommend about 20 pellets one day, greens the next day, then pellets, then greens, etc. Your map turtle will ALWAYS be hungry, but you should try to keep from overfeeding it. Thats why in between pellets you can give him dandelions, spinach, arugula, lettuce, so he's not starving, and has a variety of foods. For the greens, I just go to the supermarket and buy a prewashed organic salad mix, and it lasts me almost a month. Good luck. Also, I recently had one map turtle pass away because of a respiratory infection and I feel like I should tell you... Please make sure you have a heater in the water. You can even use an undertank reptile heater. We accidently left his light off all day, and he got a pneumonia from the cold. We were crushed by this and would hate to see it happen to anyone else. Also, change your UV light every 4 months, and use an old tooth brush to take off any algea growing on your turtle and aquarium pieces. Although algea is safe for turtles, its presence enables bad bacteria to form. I hope you enjoy your map turtle. They are one of the BEST animals to share your home with.

Answer 3

in case you're too comfortable to feed your turtles stay earthworms, turtles would no longer be the pets for you. Earthworms are between the most suitable meals for youthful turtles. you need to, although spoil out with feeding baitfish, mushy-bodied insects, snails, or strips of liver dusted with bone meal. with the exception of feeding and cleansing, leave the turtles on my own as far as achieveable. save the tank temperature about 80°F and the basking temperature at about ninety°F.

Answer 4

Crayfish, earthworms, turtle pellets, yes. A frog would probably be too big (unless it was a small treefrog).

http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Care/cs-mismud.htm

Answer 5

Live food, is am excelent idea, personally I recomend live feeder fish, but frogs and cryfish are good as well