Feeding and Nutrition :: Fish Flakes as a staple diet?

[VeipaCray]

@i.love.res > eating something is better than not eating. You can try mixing in a pellet of what you want the turtle to eat with what it's currently accepting. It may start eating both and then you can begin to introduce more and change your pellets over. If it hasn't been mentioned here already, it's definitely on the feeding part of this site. You can soak pellets in some tuna water to entice eating.

As far as picture posting... look at steve's post. He's got a how-to link in his signature.

[i.love.res]

@VeipaCray, i failed in trying to post pics, so all i can say is that my turts scutes are developing a greysih outline for some reason.
Anyway, hes eating nutrafin , but refuses reptomin, i found out that reptomin is kind of spongy, while nutrafin breaks up into small pieces once chewed, so i guess he likes his pellets that way.I also tried mixing, but he picked out the nutrafin, and occasionally accidentaly eats HBH turtle bites
Update, today no name went crazy for HBH, But alas reptomin is still refuse
I just don't get it, ReptoMin cost like 3 times that of nutrafin, and twice as much as HBH, yet he likes the cheaper stuff, and refuses the good stuff
Guess its just personal opinion

[steve]

You can e-mail it to me redearslider@gmail.com and I'll post it for you.

[i.love.res]

Thats ok steve, i learned that hes just shedding, btw hes eating nutrafin like crazy
Btw,he kind of has a concaved plastron is that bad? its near where the yolk sack used to be
Oh yea one more thing my mom bought a new can of nutrafin from the pet store, but this one seems different in colour, but its the same brand, and turt dosen't really like the new food.
Other than that hes doing great, though i still haven't picked out a name for him

[steve]

Be wary about where you get your turtle food, my first container of Nutrafin was fake.

How old is he again?

[i.love.res]

Hi steve, how do i tell if the nutrafin is fake, my previous one had pellets that were kind of short and brown, but this new can has pellets that are pretty long, and bright green? Is this new can fake?
Hes been with me for about two weeks now , hes just a little hatchling

[steve]

Purchase it from a legit petstore and examine the package. It should not have any missing information or misspellings. I think they should be sealed too and should not smell stale.

Check their site to compare the pellets.

[i.love.res]

Thanks for the info steve, well i couldn't find the nutafin site, nor are there any differences in the packaging , so instead, when this can of nutrafin finsihes up, i'll change to wardley brand, since he also seems to like it.I'm also sure a brand like wardley wouldn't have any problems like this
Btw, i once saw my little turtle using his front hands to, erm well i don't know what it was doing, but he seemed to be vibrating the pellet i gave him , and he also did the same to my finger
Is he trying to play or something?

[steve]

I think it's made by Hagan.... here's a container: http://www.petco.com/product/109540/Nut ... hrimp.aspx

He's fluttering, either he really likes the pellet or he's giving it a warning... I'm guessing he doesn't like it.