General Care Discussion :: My turtle eating feeder fishes

[joopt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYikAWLh ... annel_page

[mike504]

thats a nice amout of strenth it have with his/her neck good looking turtle

[mikee]

jpt -- Oh goodness, how blood thirsty!! Ha Ha – I would only feed them one or two of those each week. You don’t want to give them too much protein for proper carapace development. I freeze my feeder fish before I feed them with them due to possible parasites. M.

[papoopeepoo]

Nice. i wish i had a camcorder to record my turtle in his 135 gallon chasing feeder fish around. He's become such a good swimmer, and he's slick too. He'll sneak up on a little group of fish, then go for the biggest, slowest fish he sees. It takes him about a week to catch 6 fish, haha.

[bradmeisel]

Why don't you put the fish in your tank? I love watching my turtles go after fish. We just put in 10 and 4 remain. They pretty much get all they can in the first day.

[Mech Cb]

I put 20 in my tank about a week ago(I know, I know) and right now there's still about 10 swimmin around. Once he gets done with these guys, I'm gonna start rationing them a little better.

[theartbook35]

Why don't you put the fish in your tank? I love watching my turtles go after fish. We just put in 10 and 4 remain. They pretty much get all they can in the first day.

Sometimes, if the turtle disembowels the fish, the blood can ruin the water quality.

I hadn't seen a turtle eat feeders until now, and I didn't know they could swallow them almost completely whole like that.

[Diamondbacks4Life]

I rarely seen my turtle ever bite fish in half or break it apart. They swallow always whole. Sometimes they bit the heads off thats it though.

[theartbook35]

I rarely seen my turtle ever bite fish in half or break it apart. They swallow always whole. Sometimes they bit the heads off thats it though.

The more and more I study them, the more and more they remind be of alligators/crocodiles.

Kind of neat to watch, when Hurricane has chased after my fingers, she'll dive down like this one did, that intense pointed stare, and she's been known to propel herself from the surface slightly to try and catch me. The best though, is after her little chase she looks up at me like she's waiting for something.

I know I shouldn't do that... But I love seeing their behaviors, it's so neat, and in a weird way it's nice exercise for them. I think what I might do is a get a toy plastic fish, same size as their head or a bit bigger, tie a string to it, and swirl it around. They might get a kick out of that.

[joopt]

Hehe glad you guys enjoyed the vid, you should see him eat them in his main tank, they don't even suspect him and he just gets them in 1 bite, its amazing