Feeding and Nutrition :: small turtle but only eat pellet... feed them fish?

[stinky_hurley]

my turtles are about 3.5 inch long, so still a baby! one is bigger, about 5 inch.

what should i feed them besides pellets? lettus? I don't really know... carrots? I don't really wanna feed my younger ones fish... i like fishies too...

[Tenodera]

Hmmm in your very big avatar it looks like your turtle has something wrong with his shell...

If you want to get your turtle to eat his/her greens you just give them veggies and don't feed them pellets for a few days and see if that tempts them into eating the veggies.

[marisa]

When did you get them and how much have they grown since you got them? Some of those scutes need to shed, but from the pic it also looks like there are some lumps on the shell (pyramiding).

How much you feed them at a feeding and how often do you feed them?

For what to feed, do some reading on the site about what the diet should consist of. There are lists for what foods are good to give.

You don't have to feed live fish (I don't), but you do need to vary their diet more, and at their sizes they should be eating a fair amount of plant matter, both veggies and aquatic plants.

You need to resize your avatar.

[steve]

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Do yourself a favor and read this section (www.redearslider.com/index_nutrition.html), it should give you a better idea of what you can offer, how much and why its good or bad for your turtle.