Turtles in water
 

In my pond I have along with my goldfish and Koi two red eared sliders that
were given to me after someone left them in a pond and moved out.
I bought specialised turtle food, but they ignore it and eat the same food
as I feed my fish.
IS this a problem or will they be ok? They seem fine and have been active
recently.
Thanks

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XBL : D0C RAY

Turtles in water
 

I've kept turtles before.
I always tried to think about what they ate
in the wild and took it from there.

Young turtles need more protein, to grow
their shells. Older turtles need more vegetable
matter.

We have an island in our pond. I tossed extra
treats onto the island where the turtles could get
it and not the fish. Stuff like ~
land snails
worms
organic lettuce
watercress
and turtle chow when I had it. I figured there were
some goodies in there they could use but I didn't go
out of my way to make sure I always had it.
I've heard that they like fruit also.

That said, the turtles were always leaping into the
skrum of fish and giving no quarter going after
fish kibble. I'd throw a bit of that in their island also.

k :-)

Turtles in water
 

In news:kthirtya Scribbled:
snip

Thanks for the reply. Not so worried now. I always add snails and blood
worm along with various plants etc for them to eat.

Feel better now.
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Turtles in water
 

My turtles eat the fish food, my goldfish eat the turtle food. I toss in
a mix of the two commerical foods and add extras. My RES love sweet
potatoes, romaine lettuce, and apple slices. The fish love oranges. I
stick a sweet potato in my waterfall & veggie filters and they grow
lovely vines over the summer which the turtles also chow down on when it
hits their part of the pond. Everyone seems to be doing okay after three
years.

Gabrielle in southern Arizona



KerplunKuK wrote:

In my pond I have along with my goldfish and Koi two red eared sliders that
were given to me after someone left them in a pond and moved out.
I bought specialised turtle food, but they ignore it and eat the same food
as I feed my fish.
IS this a problem or will they be ok? They seem fine and have been active
recently.
Thanks

Turtles in water
 

In .com, on 04/19/07
at 11:12 AM, kthirtya said:



I've kept turtles before.
I always tried to think about what they ate
in the wild and took it from there.

Young turtles need more protein, to grow
their shells. Older turtles need more vegetable
matter.

We have an island in our pond. I tossed extra
treats onto the island where the turtles could get
it and not the fish. Stuff like ~
land snails
worms
organic lettuce
watercress
and turtle chow when I had it. I figured there were
some goodies in there they could use but I didn't go
out of my way to make sure I always had it.
I've heard that they like fruit also.

Many, if not most (or all), species of water turtle can only eat in water.
That was true of my missing painted turtle (which I still think was
stolen.)


Alan

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