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My Eastern mud turtle loves salmon but that can't continue. I'm not giving her catfish anymore except as an occasional treat due to the thiaminase issue.
The specialist vet wants me to get her to eat more greens, but she doesn't even acknowledge them, much less eat them.
She ate Hikari Sinking Carnivore Wafers as a baby, but won't touch them now.
I've tried floating Cichlid pellets, per the excellent article pinned at the top of this section, but she ignores them.
I've given her a smallish worm which she was very excited about: she bit it into pieces but didn't eat it. So apparently only good for entertainment.
She eats guppies but it's a long, slow process that results in the guppy being mangled alive before being eaten. That is just too gross FOR ME.
Do I just need to give her more worms and insects, and stick with the formulated turtle food and use a little "tough love" for all of it???
My Eastern mud turtle loves salmon but that can't continue. I'm not giving her catfish anymore except as an occasional treat due to the thiaminase issue.
The specialist vet wants me to get her to eat more greens, but she doesn't even acknowledge them, much less eat them.
She ate Hikari Sinking Carnivore Wafers as a baby, but won't touch them now.
I've tried floating Cichlid pellets, per the excellent article pinned at the top of this section, but she ignores them.
I've given her a smallish worm which she was very excited about: she bit it into pieces but didn't eat it. So apparently only good for entertainment.
She eats guppies but it's a long, slow process that results in the guppy being mangled alive before being eaten. That is just too gross FOR ME.
Do I just need to give her more worms and insects, and stick with the formulated turtle food and use a little "tough love" for all of it???