can I feed my turtle bigger fish?

Question

I wanted to know can I feed my red eared slider bigger fish?He's still young,not a baby though,and I wanna feed him big fish.I think it will make him an ultimate predator turtle.Will it be harmful if I feed him bigger fish?I think it would be exciting to rip the bigger fish apart

Answer 1

I have young turtles & an adult female and they will eat a big molly in no time. Mind you it is messy with fish oils. But they love it !! I don't give them to them all the time just as a treat

And no they don't tear them apart. One of mine ate a guppy one time and I guess she squeezed so hard the head popped off. They kind of eat them whole....

Answer 2

Well, yes, turtles will probably eat any size fish, but what you are doing is really irresponsible. Turtles need a large tank, submersible heater, filter, two clamp lamps, a heat bulb, a UVB bulb, and a dock.
You should be feeding the number of pellets that would fit in its head if it was hollow every other day will romaine lettuce and sometimes carrots every other day. Fish, shrimp, and meat have too much protein. The occasional feederfish (6 per month tops) is OK but a turtle is not a toy.
If you must, feed a rosie red minnow once per week but that's really enough-they are mostly herbivores, not carnivores and if you give them too much protein they will get pyramidding and other disorders (google it-you'll see how bad it is). Goldfish are really fatty and should never be given anyway.
Hopefully you do the right thing-good luck.

Answer 3

Use a processed turtle meals it truly is created from dried fish and aquatic flowers. do no longer use stay meals for a newborn turtle. Turtles habitats tend to smell undesirable as nicely. stay and gentle meals floating indoors the water will smash down and reason an incredible stink. Get a e book or study your pup onnline. some turtles % to be fed indoors the water, some on a dry floor. Your turtle needs a habitat which will enable him to work out, take in the comfortable and swim.

Answer 4

Well I gave mine goldfish as their first feeder fish and I have never seen them eat them but they have mysteriously gone missing over night before. Right now I think they are too big for mine though. They take nips out of the fins but haven't tried eating them. The fish are about-3-4 inches long and the turtles are 5 inch and 2 3/4 inch. They became friends. But I still leave them in their.
The size of the fish will not hurt your turtle. They love fish and will chomp them down with no problem.

Answer 5

Turtles, like many other predators, select prey by size. If you put in several sizes of food fish, it would ignore the small fish and big fish. As the turtle grows, it will select bigger prey.

Go ahead and drop in bigger fish- nothing will happen- other than the turtle maybe harassing them and nipping at their fins.

Answer 6

Stick with feeder guppies, till its about 6 inches in diameter with its shell than you can start feeding larger fish. Just not the size of a goldfish or perch yet. they don't rip fish apart, they don't have forward facing teeth. Watch your turtle eat a piece of Reptomin and notice it swallows it whole.

Answer 7

i have a 1 month old painter eating guppies.. the guppies are 1/3 its size..