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#167397

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Eating red ear trutle

My male took a bit of a mealy worm and spit it out. and the famale did nonthing but look at it.

whan i get money i will be geting a heater for the water i have a 60 watt light on the water to heat the water up
i am going to try to get some trutle food tomarrow whan my mom gets her cheack.

10/21/04 5:42pm

#167683

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Message To: Kling In reference to Message Id: 167397

Eating red ear trutle

A 60 watt heat bulb will not keep the water warm enough for them, unless hes in a bucket. IT needs to be 70-75.. Try using turtle pellets from local petstore or walmart.. and try krill for a treat. The turtle should be in at least a 55 gallon tank, minimum... no matter the size because they’ll grow fast and need it anyways.. and should have a really good filter.

10/21/04 10:36pm

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Message To: KK In reference to Message Id: 167683

Eating red ear trutle

RES’s will eat all sorts of things. Mine love guppies and mealworms. They like romaine lettuce, carrots shavings, apple and strawberries. And mine are just babies only about 3 and a half months old.

10/21/04 10:52pm

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Message To: KK In reference to Message Id: 167683

Eating red ear trutle

Mine is kept in a 10 gal. tank at the moment and will be upgraded when needed. We use a 100w household bulb for a basking light and it warms the tank up fine. The turtle food we use is Reptomin turle food (like about 4 bucks at wal-mart) He also likes bloodworms (also from wal-mart 3 bucks) and he likes to eat the fish food when we feed the fish( we have 3 in his tank. for him to eat when he is older). He also likes small cut up pieces of apples, fish, okra, little insects, small pieces of lean ground beef(raw) And he is still a young baby. Try some of these to feed your turtle if money his tight or for treats.

10/21/04 10:55pm

#167714

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Message To: Rbel-Gecko In reference to Message Id: 167703

Eating red ear trutle

ground beef is not good even as a treat it has way to much fat in it. try cooked chicken instead. they can eat fish even at a small age if you can get feeder guppies which are very small, they cost me about 10 cents a piece but they breed so readily that you can buy 10 and in a week you have 20. poisonous plants good stuff

10/21/04 11:02pm

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Message To: Cinderella In reference to Message Id: 167714

Eating red ear trutle

i just put them in a 90 gallen tank and have 100 watt light on it and l;ike i said i will be geting a water heater i am going to try to get to th pet shop tomarrow to get trutle food and feeder fish just like 2 or 4 i tyed mealworms all they did was eat the gut i am nes with themlol wish me luck

Neil

10/22/04 12:04am

#168335

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Message To: Kling In reference to Message Id: 167751

Eating red ear trutle

Well keep trying things, especially the veggies and such. It is normal for most young RES to want meat and not veggies and fruits. But one of mine loves that stuff. I will say though the first most important thing is to make sure that they are eating a turtle food, like reptomin or mazuri. don’t let them get away with living on treats like apple and shrimp or krill. a varied diet is good but a turtle pellet makes it complete.

10/22/04 11:15pm

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Message To: Cinderella In reference to Message Id: 168335

Eating red ear trutle

well i got trutle pellets today and this shrimp the seem to like the pellets more than that mealworms so i’m goingto stick with the pellets and greens

10/23/04 12:40am