Before telling you guys all you need to know about what do turtles eat, I want to warn you – Last time I wrote how easy fun and harmless turtles are, but as it turn out when it come to their diets, water turtles eat some crazy ugh stuff. So be warn this blog post is not for the cricket lovers…
photo by Jason Pratt
Okay I got my water turtles, I got my aquarium and all the needed equipments and now I need to figure out what do turtles eat (rewind: Let me correct myself, I should have been more responsible and checked it out before actually getting the turtles).
So I done my research, I asked here and there and check out with some real turtles experts and this is what I came up with:
if you want your new friends to stay happy and healthy their nutrition should be as much similar as possible to the nutruition they would have got if they where free in the wild.
Fresh water turtles habitat in the wild are usually small rivers or ponds and they will eat what ever they can find in the water and fit into their mouth. for example: water plants , small fish, insect and even (and this is where it become really gross…) leeches!
That mean I can and should feed my water turtles:
Small fish
Chopped vegetables
Water plants
And insects, that turn out to be a very important ingredients in their diet.
Don’t worry you don’t have to start hunting insects on the backyard you can just buy small crickets in almost every pet store.
I know, I know who knew that taking Water turtles as a pet will become such a Fear Factor experience… But everything for my new best friends – right!?
And I guess my husband can always help with all the insect things…
Any way I found this video that give, what looks like a great explanation on what do turtles eat.
I hope you find this information useful and if you have your own tips and smart advise please share it with us.