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Natural Food for Aquatic Turtles
A turtle is a pretty easy pet to care for in my opinion. You just need to feed them, clean there aquarium, and give them a place to bask. (dry off) But to really have a happy and healthy turtle you have to invest a lot of time and love along with good nourishment. Just remember that you cannot rely on the turtle pellets alone to meet the requirements of your turtles diet. You will also need to feed you turtle aquatic plants and live or dried fish and insects and a few other treat to inure a long happy healthy life.
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Food for your Baby Turtle
Zoo Med Natural Pellets
Zoo Med Natural Aquatic Turtle Food, Hatchling Formula, 8-Ounce
Amazon Price: $3.43 (as of 06/03/2012)
For Hatchlings (baby turtles) you will need a high protein pellet. This helps them grow and also has added vitamins. Hatchlings are little turtles no more than 2".
Turtles As Pets
Turtles are easy to maintain and feed
Turtles, like fish need an aquarium with a water filter. This enables you to keep the water fresh and clean for your turtle. With a filter you won't have to change the water quite so often but if you see the water getting cloudy - please do take the time to check your filter and clean the tank.
Temperature
A turtle needs to live in water that is between 68 - 80 degrees.
Great Natural Turtle Food For Your Turtle
Do you have a pet Turtle?
Samonella Warning
Always wash your hands with soap and water after handling the turtle. *Never* have a young child handle turtles unsupervised.
Cleaning the Aquarium
Soap and Detergents should never be used when cleaning Turtles tanks.
A Natural Food Supplement
For Your Growing Turtle
After a while we noticed the Zoo Med brand of pellets and decided that a natural pellet (for us that is a product where we can read and understand the ingredients) was best. Zoo Med also has 35% protein the highest we found in our store for turtle food. For our turtle which is about 4" now it is a good match.
Zoo Med Natural Aquatic Turtle Food, Growth Formula, 13-Ounce
Amazon Price: $3.15 (as of 06/03/2012)
For the Growing turtle a protein rich pellet is best. If you have an older turtle try looking for the Maintenance Pellet.
Maintenance Food for the Older Turtle
Zoo Med Natural Aquatic Turtle Food, Maintenance Formula, 45-Ounce
Amazon Price: $9.64 (as of 06/03/2012)
As your turtle grows it really doesn't need a rich protein diet like it did when it was growing. This formula gives just 25% protein and suggested for turtles over 6".
What type of food do you feed your Aquatic Turtle?
Worms, Insects, pellets, Sticks, or Plants
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Suzanne
May 12, 2012 @ 11:54 pm | delete
- My turtle love salmon, and will not eat anything else.
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paperfacets May 27, 2011 @ 4:04 pm | delete
- We have the box turtle.
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pawpaw911
May 17, 2011 @ 8:43 am | delete
- Just lensrolled this to Fly River Pig nosed turtle. Nice lens.
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Senora_M
Dec 12, 2010 @ 1:34 pm | delete
- This is a cool lens! My nephew has a turtle, so I'll have to pass this on to them!
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MomwithAHook Dec 12, 2010 @ 2:57 pm | delete
- I hope it helps him learn more about his new pet. Thanks for stopping by.
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BuckHawk
Dec 12, 2010 @ 11:47 am | delete
- My family had pet turtles growing up and Mom always took care of them. I never knew there was such a thing as pellets, so always gave them vegeys and Dad had to dig worms for them. Such a great idea to let kids learn how to care for a pet with a turtle.
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- My son does the digging for the worms. LOL I don't think I could stomach actually going through with the whole process of gathering them and feeding them to the turtle. I know it's part of nature but it still gets to me. Pellets are more my style.
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sandyspider
Dec 12, 2010 @ 1:03 am | delete
- I remember growing up with a couple of turtles. Nice information.
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- We are finding more and more people who have pet turtles locally, so it isn't that unusual of a pet. I guess I just need to broaden my 'pet' mindset. Thanks for dropping by Sandy.
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Taking Care of Turtles for Kids
A simple for guide for Children
Let's Take Care of Our New Turtle
Amazon Price: $1.97 (as of 06/03/2012)
Sometimes when I need to learn something I find a simple book from the childrens section. There is something about the presentation that is straight forward and pleasant about the way books for children are written. This is one book we found at our library that really helped my son [and most importantly me] get a better idea of how to care for his new pet.
