Thanks for the reply! Yes they are smaller pellets but my turtles all trained to eat in buckets and they never leave a crumb, I don’t doubt they’d eat this up readily. As for cost I got it all for free so no worries there.
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My turtles are all happy and healthy ATM, but I have a question regarding diet. I recently got a decent supply of Aqueon Nutrinsect fish-free goldfish pellets from a friend and was wondering if they would be safe to introduce into the protein side of my turtles diet.
Typically I feed...
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This doesn’t seem urgent and I’ve observed no behavioral changes, but one of my rescued painted turtles appeared to have a piece of skin right behind his eyes that is stuck, making the skin in the surrounding area appear tighter than it should be. This turtle is around 13-15...
The bubbles and reflection theory don’t really add up as he is doing this with his eyes closed and only opened them because I used flash on my camera. It’s also like a gulp then quick nostril exhalation. He doesn’t do this AT ALL during the day. And it’s only a very recent behavior, I know his...
Definitely not a female, have seen male genitalia during fanning behavior. Though uncharacteristically short claws for a male. Thanks for the input. It is worth noting that this is not a normal behavior and each night he does it for several hours before finally going to sleep.
Hi everyone,
I have a ~13 year old painted turtle rescue that I’ve had around 8 years now. He is a male Easter painted. For the past few nights I have noticed that he will spend several hours at the surface making a gulping gesture, but only at night once the lights are off.
During the day...
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I have three painted turtles, two who are definitely male (have seen fanning behavior). Though I struggle when sexing the last. This turtle is the oldest and also the largest, carapace 5in in length and around 15yo. This turtle’s cloaca is further down suggesting male, but lacks...
Hi everyone, I’m a little worried about my female painted turtle (around 10YO).
in the past few months she’s been semi-buoyant when diving until she releases a breath. She’s completely able to dive and reach the bottom like this, it’s just that she very slowly rises in the water with her butt...
I’m definitely more ok feeding inverts than vertebrates, and I would feed a pelleted diet if I could find one without fish. Even supposedly “bug based” turtle diets always have fish as the second ingredient. As I’ve yet to find a suitable pellet diet I want to look into feeding variety of...
My main issue is feeding vertebrate animals like fish which are in every single commercial turtle diet, I have less of a problem feeding invertebrates like worms, shrimp, and insects. (Sadly even “bug based” turtle formulas still contain fish). I’m more asking if anyone has had success feeding...
Hi everyone, I was told I should post here since turtlefourm is basically a dead website. Got a weird question:
As my three turtles have matured I have had success getting them to finally eat their greens and their pellet consumption has gone down to twice a week while accepting greens for...