Red Eared Slider Diet
When you have red eared slider turtles for pets you have to make sure that you are feeding them the right amount of plant and animal material. As babies they need to eat large amount of animal protein because they have a very large carnivorous side to them. However, it is still a good thing to feed them a few vegetable materials. Finding the right information now will save lots of anguish later.
Don’t be surprised though if they don’t eat much of the vegetation till they are older. When they mature to adults you can pull back on the animal materials and feed them mostly vegetation.
You can offer red eared slider pellet food. They have a bit of a mixture of the right amount of vitamins and minerals. They are sometimes more convenient for pet owners. But this should not be the only thing that you feed them. It is great if you mix their food up a bit to keep them from getting bored and to make sure that they are getting all of the nutrients that they need to be healthy.
Food To Feed Red Eared Sliders
When it comes to feeding them you can give them earthworms, live feeder fish (this includes goldfish, guppies, minnows), waxworms, crickets, aquatic snails, daphnia, earthworms, silkworms, mealworms, and blood worms. These should only be given to small turtles. Adult red eared slider should eat larger animal items.
When feeding turtles vegetation stick with collard, kale, bok choy, mustard, dandelions greens, and dark green leaf lettuce. Never feed them iceberg lettuce because it does not have much nutrition.
If your turtle lives in a pond or aquarium you can always add aquatic plants to feed them. They love to snack on submerged plants like frog-bit, water hyacinth, water lettuce, azolla, anacharis, and duckweed.
By: Naomi West
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Red Eared Slider Turtle
Red eared sliders are like any other pet. They are unique in their own way and therefore require different things to take care of them properly
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It is common for Red-eared Slider to bask together and even on top of each other. There is also abundant vegetation, which is the main component of an adult slider’s diet.
What is a healthy diet for two baby red eared slider turtles?
I just figured out that my two baby turtles have metabolic bone disease and i need to know if what i am feeding them is right. what is a healthy diet for them?
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