my red eared slidder turtle?

Question

i feed my turtle carrots chopped up same with some diced apples ? she ate them up, do i suppose to feed my turtle that type of stuff?

Answer 1

Here is my own personal list that I made up and have kept it in word on my computer. This question gets asked alot and I always refer to my list....It is for ever growing.

(The ones with little side notes beside...I have had either a good experience with that food or a bad one)

Safe Feeding List
Commercial Foods (This is just a few of them on the market)

• Tetra Reptomin
• Zoo Med’s Aquatic Turtle Food
• Exo Terra
• Wardley's Reptile Premium Sticks
• HBH Turtle Bites

Frozen/Canned (For treats)
• Spirulina-enriched Brine Shrimp
• Bloodworms
• Plankton
• Krill
• Zoo Med’s Can O'Crickets, Grasshoppers, or Meal Worms

Live Foods (Carnivorous)
• Aquatic Snails/Apple Snails/Water Snails
• Crickets (Gut-Loaded)
• Earthworms, Night Crawlers
• Ghost Shrimp
• Guppies or Rosey (no goldfish they are too fatty and have very little nutritional value)
• Mealworms
• Pinhead Crickets (for smaller turtles)
• Slugs
• Wax Worms, Super Worms

**be careful about Wild-Caught foods, they can carry parasites that can be transferred to your turtle. Freezing Wild-Caught foods for a month will help to kill off some parasites.

Fruits (small amounts for treats only)
• Apples
• Bananas
• Cantaloupe/Common Melon
• Figs
• Grapes (remove skin so it’s easier for them to pick at)
• Mango
• Melon
• Papaya
• Pear
• Tomato
• Strawberries
• Water Melon (Feed rarely)

**should be cut up in small, bite-size or match-like sticks that will be easy for the turtle to bite into and not choke on.

Vegetables
• Beans
• Beetroot
• Carrots
• Squash
• Sweet Potato [cooked - boiled/ steamed/baked]
• Peas
• Pumpkin
• Zucchini


Greens & Other Leafy Products
• Collards Greens
• Dandelion Greens
• Kale
• Mustard leaves
• Radish leaves
• Red Leaf Lettuce
• Romaine Lettuce
• Turnip Greens


**Stay away from Spinach. Make sure to cut the veggies in bite-size or match-like sticks so your turtle can eat them easily. Iceberg lettuce is good filler, but contains little/no nutritional value!

Aquatic Plants
• Anacharis
• Duckweed
• Hornwort
• Water Hyacinth
• Water Lettuce
• Water Lily
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Answer 2

For the most part, the answers you have gotten are poking around the truth but not getting there. Jose is close. You will not be able to tell the difference until they are sexually mature. At that time, the male's front claws will be significantly longer than his rear claws. If there is any doubt, you have either a female or an immature male. This works for sliders, cooters, painted turtles, and their close relatives. You have the same problem with the general technique for sexing. Look at the underside of the tail. Find the vent. With the tail held straight back, is the vent under the carapace (upper shell)? If so, you have a female or an immature male. If the vent is beyond the carapace, you have a mature male. The shape of the plastron (lower shell) is useful in turtles with high domed shells, not so good for sliders. The other advice you have gotten is just plain wrong. Just in case someone advises probing or popping, don't have it done. I have yet to meet the vet whom I would trust to do either without injuring the turtle. I certainly would not trust a pet shop clerk or an amateur turtle-keeper. If you are really lucky and have a male, he will evert his penis briefly and you will be sure.

Answer 3

carrots are good to feed, you could fed other vegetables too, like squash or green beans. Apples are okay in moderation, because fruit is not a natural staple diet for them, so it could get diarrhea if it eats too much.

Your turtle should also get some type of meat in it's diet. You can feed it things like feeder fish (I used to buy mine little goldfish. They cost about 10 cents each depending on where you get them, and its lots of fun to watch the turtle hunt for them. You can also feed things like earthworms, crickets, tadpoles, and bloodworms.

Your turtle should also have a nice variety of leafy green foods, like kale, bok choy, and collard or mustard greens.

I've noticed that young turtles like meat more, but as they get older they start to like the veggies more than the meat.

It is also good to mix in a reptile vitamin supplement with the food every once in awhile.

If you really don't feel like feeding it that kind of stuff, you could always just feed it the commercial turtle pellets they have on the market. They are convenient, but I would expect that the turtle would enjoy the variety of fresh foods better.

Answer 4

This is fine as part of the diet. Many sliders (young and old alike) like veggies and fruit of different kinds - just don't offer citrus. I have hatchlings and adults right now, and some of both will eat greens, carrots, sweet potato, and summer squashes, and some won't.

Make sure you give her a quality pelleted food, too. I use Reptomin pellets for smaller turtles, and Zoo Med or Mazuri for larger turtles.

I would never offer raw meat of any kind, for the same reasons we don't eat it. Cooked, plain chicken, shrimp, or fish is fine as a treat, as are insects and pieces of earthworm.

Answer 5

Fruit and Veggies are fine to feed a slider. I have had several and some of them also liked worms, pinkies and goldfish. Remember that turtles also need Calcium. Depending on the size of your turtle you will have to adjust the amount of Calcium it needs. Most reputable pet stores that have reptiles can tell you what you need. Also try looking online for tons of information on keeping turtles. Good Luck

Answer 6

Red Ears are omnivores, which means they eat everything. As they mature, they require a lot less meat in their diet. Carrots and apples are great, but try to limit fruit to a treat and not a constant in their diet. Dark green leafy vegetables are highest in calcium, which is an essential in any reptiles diet. Avoid spinach, however, as it contains an enzyme that blocks calcium absorption.

Answer 7

This is part of the answer but does help
Turtles are fine with about any tempature. They are really hardy. You do not need a heater. Unless you live in a cold state. There water should be just room temp. Water temp. doesnt hurt them. What hurts them is if you dont clean out the tank. You want to clean out the tank at least once a week.

Turtles do shed their shells, when they grow you will soon notice that its arms and legs are shedding. This will not affect the turtle in any way. Your turtle should be eating normal and doing its normal activities. The only different that you may notice is that it may be scratching its head with its feet. Because some turtles don’t like the shedding on there heads. Because it does tend to get in there eyes. Do not peel off the shedding. Let the turtle just grow normally. You will see the turtle peel allot while its a baby. Baby turtles grow fast. Map turtles get up to about 8in. So you will be going through some upgrades of tanks. OR just get one big tank. Some people go for the rule of 5gallons per inch of turtle. You want to have the water at least 2 times the length of its body so that it can get exercise. Map turtles are more of bottom turtles. Meaning they hang out on the bottom of the tank. Don’t be worried if he stays down there. Map turtles don't grow as fast as other types of turtles. My Red Ear Slider grew 4in. in 3 months. But my map only grew about 2 1/2. Some turtles do like little friends in their tanks you can decide on if you would like another turtle for your map to play with or not. You just have to think about one thing Tank size for when they get big. They do live for a couple of years. You can mix different types of turtles together. Just don’t put snapping turtles or soft-shells with the map. They are known to be aggressive. You may get some alge in the tank or on the turtles its best just to rub it off. I don’t recommend chemicals that treat alge as they might harm the turtle’s shells. Or if you get a snail the turtles will eat it. Or if you get a pleco ( alge eater, aka sucker fish), As some people will tell you its fine to get one with turtles as they are armored and the turtles cant harm them, that’s not true. When I got my turtles I had also gotten a pleco because I was told nothing would happen. Well Plecos have soft bellies so your turtles can kill them if they bight the bellies. I guess I found out the hard way. 3 months later my pleco was upside down eating the alge of the basking platform and one of the turtles bit his belly. Also plecos can some times attach them self’s to turtles which some times can harm the turtles. You can have fish in the tank to clean a little but don’t get to used to them. as they will disappear. The turtles will eat them.



Some common turtles to choose from:
You may mix only Red Ear sliders, maps and yellow bellies together. Don’t mix, snapping or soft-shells.
Red Ear Sliders~ they get up to 12in.
Map Turtles~ 8in.
Yellow Belly~ 12in.
Snapping~ I don’t advise on getting for beginning turtlest. They are aggressive.
Soft Shells~ Look Cool But another turtle that I don’t advise on getting for beginners. Soft shells and snapping turtle do get huge you can not get more than one or mix with any other turtles.

Answer 8

Young sliders are carnivorous (how old is your turtle?) and as they grow older adopt a diet mostly vegetable. Those things may be fine, but everything I have read is only give them food designed for your age of slider. Ours just turned 1, or so we guess. Cute, aren't they? Give it lots of UV rays.

Answer 9

a little won't hurt but it needs protein like fish (Raw) or just turtle food, it will eat flies too along with other small bugs

Answer 10

thats good:)
your must be a older of a turtle right?
Also crickets are good to or cooked chciken or shrimp
i sugust natural food becuase its more healthy
like ( criket shrimp like that)