Feeding and Nutrition :: Blueberries? Skin on?

[BiteyBits]

I have two containers of blueberries, I am probably going to eat them all fairly quickly.

I have heard that turtles enjoy blueberries as a treat. If I manage to share, should I take the skin off or drop them in whole?

[Ranger The Red Ear Slider]

I would drop them whole or cut them in half if you have a smaller turtle.

[Melvira_Fox]

Drop them in whole.

[BiteyBits]

I did yesterday. It's still there.

[Ranger The Red Ear Slider]

Try cutting it in half so he can smell it a little bit more

[BiteyBits]

I'll try in a few days. They got a lot of treats over the weekend. Extra jello shots, lettuce all day, pellets . . . . and as soon as I clean the tank, they pooped. I think they were waiting for a clean place to poop, like the cat.

[Ranger The Red Ear Slider]

Do you have a filter in there? If so it should pick up the poop

[BiteyBits]

Yes I do have a filter, just added it. I posted pics and some video in the photo section. There's a still area behind the rock on the far right that the debris collects behind. I might move it, but Speedy likes to drag the jello shots down there to eat them because they don't float away.

[Ranger The Red Ear Slider]

Yeah on the other side of my tank sometimes stuff piles up but my turtle ends up moving it to the other side for the filter to pick it up

[marisa]

I cut the blueberries into quarters.

[BiteyBits]

It took them a while but they eventually ate it. I don't know who, I never catch them eating the blueberries but they vanish into a puff of blueberry debris when I'm not looking.