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Are bananas good for res? I had one that I was meaning to eat and it got super ripe and soft so I gave half of it to my four turtles and they absolutely went bananas on it lol

I give a small piece once in awhile. I do feed them in a separate container since it gets messy.

it is pretty messy but man they love it. another thing iv found they love are small pieces of hot dogs...but then again, what do RES NOT like!!! lol...its hard not to like something when you eat poop...

There's a theory stating that animals should not eat things which are unattainable in natural conditions.
eg; can turtles climb trees? no. so they don't eat bananas. do turtles dig in ground? no. so they should not eat carrot. etc.
one could always argue that eg. banana can fall down from the tree and then be eaten by a RES.

dibox wrote:There's a theory stating that animals should not eat things which are unattainable in natural conditions.
eg; can turtles climb trees? no. so they don't eat bananas. do turtles dig in ground? no. so they should not eat carrot. etc.
one could always argue that eg. banana can fall down from the tree and then be eaten by a RES.

or a mouse could eat some banana and then the mouse falls in some water and then gets eaten by a RES
I was just wondering since bananas are rich in potassium

Hot dogs are pretty salty, as are most processed meats and should be avoided.

steve wrote:Hot dogs are pretty salty, as are most processed meats and should be avoided.

normal hotdogs out of a package have salt in them? wow...learning something every day.

There's tons of salt in almost everything.

Next time you grab your favorite pop, check the amount of sodium in that. Even sweet things are overloaded with sodium.

Fruits as treats, veggies and pellets as staple. I guess.

dibox wrote:There's a theory stating that animals should not eat things which are unattainable in natural conditions.
eg; can turtles climb trees? no. so they don't eat bananas. do turtles dig in ground? no. so they should not eat carrot. etc.
one could always argue that eg. banana can fall down from the tree and then be eaten by a RES.

The issue is that most of the things available in natural condition, ie a vast variety of aquatic flora and fauna, are not there for a captive RES. It is really difficult to get the kind of variety that they would have in a pond, so we attempt to give them a variety of foods that have the variety of nutrients that turtles need. Banannas and carrots are both ok as an occasional supplement, because they both have nutritional value as foods. I would love to give my turts water plants everyday, but even if I grow my own, or buy them every other day, they still don't have the kind of constant available variety that nature provides.

scripta_elegans wrote:

dibox wrote:There's a theory stating that animals should not eat things which are unattainable in natural conditions.
eg; can turtles climb trees? no. so they don't eat bananas. do turtles dig in ground? no. so they should not eat carrot. etc.
one could always argue that eg. banana can fall down from the tree and then be eaten by a RES.

The issue is that most of the things available in natural condition, ie a vast variety of aquatic flora and fauna, are not there for a captive RES. It is really difficult to get the kind of variety that they would have in a pond, so we attempt to give them a variety of foods that have the variety of nutrients that turtles need. Banannas and carrots are both ok as an occasional supplement, because they both have nutritional value as foods. I would love to give my turts water plants everyday, but even if I grow my own, or buy them every other day, they still don't have the kind of constant available variety that nature provides.

Yes, I think ALL kinds of food is ok provided that it's digestible. The biggest problem for me is that I don't know whether turtles have the right things like enzymes. Because if they never ate bananas or mammals, they might have evolved withouth the tools to take in these foods properly.

something like that takes hundreds of years i believe. Did you know wolfs and tigers and stuff do not have the capability to digest dog food and cat food? they can only digest pure meat and fat off another animal. crazy huh? The dogs and cats you see today have body parts in there stomachs that wild dogs and cats dont I believe i read on a few websites and even seen on some tv show about animals. you would never think about something like that

SINI5T3R wrote:something like that takes hundreds of years i believe. Did you know wolfs and tigers and stuff do not have the capability to digest dog food and cat food? they can only digest pure meat and fat off another animal. crazy huh? The dogs and cats you see today have body parts in there stomachs that wild dogs and cats dont I believe i read on a few websites and even seen on some tv show about animals. you would never think about something like that

That's why we and our pets have cancer. We eat something we were not designed for: chemicals. My friend cared for her doggy and fed him Pedigree Pal all his life. He died of intestine cancer. Did any one of you ever hear about a deer, a sloth, a marmot dying of cancer?

Actually wild animals also have problems with cancer.
http://www.livescience.com/9680-cancer-kills-wild-animals.html