Is my Red eared slider diet good for my turtle?

I own 3 food items: Krill, Brine Shrimp, and Turtle sticks. Myturtle refuses to fully eat a turtle sticks s here is my diet: Sundays i feed my freeze dried brine shrimp, Monday i feed krill. Tuesday i feed turtle sticks but he wont eat them usually. Wednesday i do not feed him at all. Thursday i goot back to krill. Friday is freeze dried brine shrimp, saturday is turtle sticks. What should i do or what should i get to raise a healthy red eared slider?

Is my Red eared slider diet good for my turtle?
Hope this helps... pauld4 Ignore the Sidenote, just something I need to say!! As I have 4 turtles that are growing and happy due to a well balanced diet.... Read on





Side note: This is my own personal list and if anyone copies and pastes it again claiming it to be their own they will be reported again...You know who you are and I also know!! (I won't mention the name as I have more class then that) When I see my own personal list which I have on word in my computer to share with others being copied and pasted ...you don't get my vote........that is dirty and you know it!! Sorry had to say that.....the person that copied my work..there source is Owner of 3 RES





Hatchlings up to 3-4 inches


once a day


1-2 pellets, treat of protein, offering of plant matter, small 2 cm block of cuttlebone every 3 days





Sub Adults 4-8 inches


Feed every 1-2 days


2- 3 pellets, protein


large plant section


cuttlebone 3-4 cm every 3-4 days





Adult 8 inches or larger


feed every 2-3 days


3-4 pellets, protein- medium amount ex....couple of greens dandelion leaves


whole cuttlebone





My guys and gals love eggshells better then cuttlebone for a good source of calcium!!





Safe Feeding List


Commercial Foods (This is just a few of them on the market)





• Tetra Reptomin


• Zoo Med’s Aquatic Turtle Food


• Exo Terra


• Wardley's Reptile Premium Sticks


• HBH Turtle Bites





Frozen/Canned (For treats)


• Spirulina-enriched Brine Shrimp


• Bloodworms


• Plankton


• Krill


• Zoo Med’s Can O'Crickets, Grasshoppers, or Meal Worms





Live Foods (Carnivorous)


• Aquatic Snails/Apple Snails/Water Snails


• Crickets (Gut-Loaded)


• Earthworms, Night Crawlers


• Ghost Shrimp


• Guppies or Rosey (no goldfish they are too fatty and have very little nutritional value)


• Mealworms


• Pinhead Crickets (for smaller turtles)


• Slugs


• Wax Worms, Super Worms





**be careful about Wild-Caught foods, they can carry parasites that can be transferred to your turtle. Freezing Wild-Caught foods for a month will help to kill off some parasites.





Fruits (small amounts for treats only)


• Apples


• Bananas


• Cantaloupe/Common Melon


• Figs


• Grapes (remove skin so it’s easier for them to pick at)


• Mango


• Melon


• Papaya


• Pear


• Tomato


• Strawberries


• Water Melon (Feed rarely)





**should be cut up in small, bite-size or match-like sticks that will be easy for the turtle to bite into and not choke on.





Vegetables


• Beans


• Beetroot


• Carrots


• Squash


• Sweet Potato [cooked - boiled/ steamed/baked]


• Peas


• Pumpkin


• Zucchini








Greens %26amp; Other Leafy Products


• Collards Greens


• Dandelion Greens


• Kale


• Mustard leaves


• Radish leaves


• Red Leaf Lettuce


• Romaine Lettuce


• Turnip Greens








**Stay away from Spinach. Make sure to cut the veggies in bite-size or match-like sticks so your turtle can eat them easily. Iceberg lettuce is good filler, but contains little/no nutritional value!





Aquatic Plants


• Anacharis


• Duckweed


• Hornwort


• Water Hyacinth


• Water Lettuce


• Water Lily
Reply:Nope, you're diet is too much protein and not very good at all. It's not a problem, I can help you correct it right now.





Turtles need to be fed once per day. Now if your turtle isn't eating turtle sticks, try a new brand, maybe Nutrafin MAX or Reptomin or HBH turtle bites. If this doesn't work, soak them in tuna in water juice and he should eat them then stop doing that and ween him off the juice. He'll come around eventually.





Every other day feed the number of turtle sticks/pellets that would fit in his head if it was hollow. Every day in between offer fresh veggies like romaine lettuce, basil, radish leaves, boston lettuce, red/green leaf lettuce, and sometimes carrots. You've given too much lettuce when they get the runs but this is healthy and they won't get pyramidding like they would from eating shrimp and pellets all the time.





For a treat, some feederfish (not goldfish-too fatty) is good once a month. A few pieces of dried baby shrimp and krill is ok every few weeks as is a piece of strawberry or raspberry. Don't overdo these though because pyramidding can be a permanent and serious condition.





You need to offer calcium. Do that via cuttlebone or turtlebone. Just remove the hard backing (the side you can't stick your fingernail in) and put in a little piece every week. It helps to put it in a clownfish veggie clip.





This link is gonna help you out http://www.redearslider.com/index_nutrit...





You can ask questions there or just read that nutrition guide.





Good luck.
Reply:I suggest you buy "Turtle pellets." They are like the little sticks. But the food that works best for my red-eared slider are these little food balls. They are a tad smaller than an eraser on a pencil, and are green and red. These are my turtles favorite food. So I suggest you try some "food balls."


They are also healthy and help your turtle grow. My turtle grew soo fast! I don't know if it is the food, but worth a try!!!





These are the pellets: http://www.petco.com/product/8149/T-Rex-...





Good Luck!!!
Reply:Well said in the side note MS......I know this is your list.......anyone who has been around here knows that!!!



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