Baby red eared turtles. What do you feed them?

[skittles13]

We have just got 2 baby red eared turtles and feeding tem bloodworms. What else can we feed them?????

[fishboi]

large brineshrimp and mysis shrimp, pretty much all soft meaty food. biosupply's turtle tucker is a good one too.

[alanmin4304]

They are carnivorous when young. I feed JBL probaby,whiteworm, mossie larvae, daphnia,frozen bloodworm and give them the odd feed of turtle pellets to get them used to the idea and the occasional oxygen weed to find out when they are interested in adding plant to their diet.

[Insect Direct]

bloodworms are great, otherwise worms, finely diced meat (ox heart, fish, prawns, shrimp etc) small aquarium/pond snails, you can also get hot house turtle food (meaty fish stuff) from wetpets and other pet shops i presume, turtle pellets (nutrafin is a good one) or trout pellets, duckweed for abit of greens or cucumber/zuchini, oxygen weed etc (should offer greens often as sooner or later they'l get a taste for em & as they get older more an more greens should be part of their diet.

IMO variety is the key (like with most living things) so try mix it up abit form time to time!

Not everyone would agree but when they get older little pinkies which are a delicacy for turtles baby mise / rats

Other important thing is calcium, you can get calcium blocks from pet shops/ trademe or calcium tablets for dogs or cheaper still cuttle bones for birds which you will find in the supermarket.

Also if you really wana go all the way you can get calcium and mineral powder for reptiles (think someone on tm is selling it at the mo) and dust there food in tht once a week or so.

hope your turtles have settled in well :lol: