How Much Powder Do I Feed My Box Turtle?

Question

I Have A Box Turtle That Requires Vitamins & Minerals. Does Any One Know How Much I Feed Him?

Answer 1

You just sprinkle a bit on their food. Make sure that you are giving him a wide variety of fruit and veggies and remember that ice berg lettuce has NO nutritional value at all.
Good thinking about the vitamins and minerals though.

Answer 2

Vitamins and minerals should be offered seperately, as minerals such as calcium and phosphorus often will bind to vitamins and thus be unavailable for absorbtion for the turtle.
Use a seperate vitamin only supplement, and a seperate mineral supplement. Look up "sticky tongue farms".

A healthy turtle, being offered a good varied diet consisting of leafy greens and other veggies, along with earthworms and other invertebrate prey, and being provided proper UVB lighting, will have little use for constant vitamins. Once or twice a month is sufficient if your husbandry and diet practices are good.

Mineral supplements ( such as straght calcium ) can be given a little more often, but I would not recommend more than once a week. These products that say give it to them at every feeding and such, are just trying to sell $h!t.

Sprinkle it LIGHTLY over the food.
Overuse of vitamins and minerals can result in toxicity, so more is not better.

Answer 3

Just a sprinkle. I give my Sulcata a bit of calcium powder too but only every third feeding.

Answer 4

http://boxturtlesite.info/diet.html has excellent advice on feeding box turtles!