General Care Discussion :: What veggies or meat have you feed your turtle?

[Mole1723]

I've been trying to change up the diet of my RES (Brutus) occasionally. Reptomin is what he usually eats.

I was carving pumpkins and thought what the heck. So I put a small piece in there. He seems to like it. I know they will eat almost anything.

I've seen people reccomend lettuce, and I tried that. He liked just the green part.

Here is list of what I've introduced.

Lettuce
ROSEY REDS (Loves Them)
Pumpkin

Is there anything else your RES likes?

[SpotsMama]

My RES LOVES steamed sweet potato and fresh basil. He's also fond of blueberries, thin strips of carrot, half a cherry tomato. He's fond of red and green leaf lettuce and romaine lettuce. I don't give him iceberg lettuce as it's very poor nuitritionally.

For pellets, he loves Reptomin which is good because Reptomin makes high quality pellets. He also loves Mazuri, another high quality pellet brand. He tried several other brands of pellets several years ago and these were the ones he prefered.

[TheComputerGremlin]

Quickly about your message:
Rosie reds are a once per month treat, so even though he loves them, don't overfeed them. Pumpkin should probably be boiled for like a minute in water in the microwave and then cooled before fed, like sweet potatoes. Lettuce, I only feed the dark green parts because my turtle isn't interested in anything else, so you can save yourself some time and only feed the darker greens.

So far I've fed:

rosie red minnows
freeze-dried crickets
pieces of cooked meats, like salmon, tuna, whitefish, chicken

lettuce - romaine, green leaf, red leaf, boston
blueberries
peeled grapes
carrots

cuttlebone
pellets - reptomin, hbh turtle bites, some turtle treat that I don't remember the brand

The list of things we've tried that didn't go over well:
tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, watermelon, orange

[imderanged]

I'm cutting up a pumpkin soon. Should i cook the pumpking or feed it raw?

[BullDog]

Last year I fed Ralph a bit of pumpkin and I cooked it like any other squash.

My turts are pretty good, and will try just about anything in the tank.
Ralph used to have a sweet tooth (he loved fruits, sweet potato and carrot), but he seems to have out grown it.

Frankie loves her lettuce.

And they both love crickets and tuna, on the rare occasions they get it

[ivonaa]

And dont forget Dandelion leaves Mines just love them. And they like the aq plants They never cant get enough. Why do you cook the pumpking ?

[BullDog]

Why do you cook the pumpking ?

Tastes better cooked
Plus I hear that there's some nutrients in squash that are only released when they're cooked. Something like that anyhow.

[Sassamo]

Sassamo has had:
minnows
guppies
1 dead pinky mouse
dandilion leaves
romaine
romaine covered in red ramshorn snails (escargo with salad yummy)
Carrot grated into strips
a dandlion flower
Pumpkin(will cook the next piece 1st)
bloodworms
strawberries
blueberries
apple peels
Watermellon
turtle jello shots

[marisa]

Lightly cooking (I steam) foods like pumpkin, sweet potato and squash makes it easier for my turtles to eat. Cooking also makes Vit A more readily available for use (for humans as well).