what should I feed my water turtle that is healthy?

Question

My water turtle needs food.Food with alot of calcium.This is a juvi turtle

Answer 1

reptomin has calcium.
You can read the label on the food to find out if it has calcium. Also you can feed it romaine lettuce, and earthworms.

And if you're seriously worried about the calcium issue, you can get your turtle a cuttlebone. These are made for birds (although zoo-med now makes one called a turtle bone that is basically the same thing) and you break off a piece and float it in the tank, and hopefully your turtle will take a chomp out of it every now and then and get some calcium, as these things are loaded with calcium.
Eventually it will get waterlogged and sink, so you should take it out at this point and break off a new chunk to put in.

Answer 2

Feed your turtle a good commercial turtle food along with some greens such as red leaf lettuce or romain. You can provide additional calcium by providing bits of cuttlebone found in the bird section of your pet store. Be sure to cut off & dispose the tough backing prior to feeding. You can also purchase calcium powder for turtles.

Answer 3

Knowing the age or size, and species would help but for most aquatic turtles there are a couple basics.

The simplest diet is:
- 1/2 good quality pellets (they are high in calcium and vitamins), and
- 1/2 assorted live or frozen/thawed fish foods, like feeder fish, worms, insects, krill, shrimp, etc.

Most water turtles do not eat much plant life until they are adults, then it forms about 1/4th of the meat part of the diet until they are much older and it becomes about 1/2-3/4ths of the meat part.

Answer 4

Provide your turtle with basic aquatic plants (you can get them from the pet store) and leafy greens. Pellets and proteins should be given, being about 50% of the diet. For proteins give rosey reds, crickets (small for juvenile), and snails (ramshorns or apple). Fruits should be given sparingly as turtles have trouble processing sugars. Squashes are very good for turtle so it is fine to provide it with plenty of pumpkin and other squashes.