Is it okay to feed Red Eared Sliders.......

[coura]

ham, pork, chicken, are all ok but I would stay away from the hotdogs. I always freeze my raw meat first because it helps to kill all the parasites. I noticed a few people suggested cooking it but Iv heard that is bad because its harder for the turtle to digest. I have a few big snappers and the main part of thheir diet is raw chicken and rats.

Your snaper´s diet needs some extreme make over. First of read what Ive posted earlier. Second feeding ham and pork to a snaper turtle is even worse because they thend to be very inactive and dont spend time swiming around like most turts and so they dont spend energy and can become big fatmeat balls Also your diet needs fiber. In the wild snapers eat a surprising high level of vegeble material,both in the gutts of what the kill and by themselfes. Even aligator snappers have been fownd to eat stuff like haycorns. So what I recomend to increase the quality of your turts diet? Cut with the by products, offer pork(if you have to) in a realy restricted way, reduce chicken and rat feedings to about once in every few weeks, insted include as staples fish ,various sea foods, big fish and turtle pellets and also see if you can trick them into eating veggis. One of easiest ways to do it is to first teach your turts to eat pellets, then give them big tortoise pellets(wich are vegetable based) like mazuri tortoise food, realy good stuff. Also many snapers eat stuff like carrots, bananas,etc

 

[coura]

You defenitaly need a bigger tank. Your killing your turtles keeping that many in a 20 gallon I would suggest a 75 gallon atleast for 3 RES's.

A outdoor enclosure would be better and cheaper

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Coura I see no real problem with feeding white tuna fish once or twice a month. Like I said, I give it as treats, not part of the staple diet. Fresh fish fillets are much, much better then anything canned.

 

[davo]

I was wondering if by no tuna Coura, you meant not the canned stuff, or do you mean both fresh fish and canned?

 

[tydus]

No worries, my brother in law has a pretty small pond around 90 gallons in his backyard. I am giving these to him. He likes turtles.

 

[krzr3000]

I am giving these to him. He likes turtles.

Is this him?

 

[tydus]

ok............

 

[Tylervsmith]

No worries, my brother in law has a pretty small pond around 90 gallons in his backyard. I am giving these to him. He likes turtles.

90 gallons would be ok for maybe one of them.... not all of them.

 

[tydus]

Yep, just gave them to my brother in law. They seem to enjoy the pond. Oh it is enough man, the pond is bit bigger than what I said. It's very roomy and is much better than a tank. I actually measured them and the biggest is 4.5 inches, the 2nd one is 2.75 inches and the smallest is 2 inches, so my estimations were off a little.

 

[coura]

Coura I see no real problem with feeding white tuna fish once or twice a month. Like I said, I give it as treats, not part of the staple diet. Fresh fish fillets are much, much better then anything canned.

I never said that you cant feed fresh tuna I just said that you should avoid the canned one at all costs (by the way sorry for repling only now but this week has been a really bussy one) Also give preference to fresh water fish and better is they are small and soft so that they can be given complete with head,bones and all. Oh and much important this is only for sliders,painteds,musks ,snappers,etc. Never ever give a complete fish like say a sardine to a soft shell turtle ever. They gorje themselfes on the fish and then can have real troble digesting it and can die because of that. Trust me Ive seen it first hand, its not pretty