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Posted by Annaka on October 09, 2002 at 20:58:39:
In Reply to: Dog and cat food for turtles??? posted by Flavia Guimaraes on October 09, 2002 at 01:51:58:
I prefer to feed live food as much as I can. My water turtles get feeder goldfish, small crayfish, minnows sold for fishbait, earthworms, and occasionaly mice that my snakes refuse to eat. I feed them turtle-specific pellets or "trout chow" pellets once or twice per week. (Trout chow is the feed the commercial trout farms use - the pellets smell like fish oil, and turtles love them. They are great at coaxing a weak/sick turtle to eat). They also munch the aquatic plants that grow in the pond - watercress, water hyacinths, duckweed, water fern...
I don't feed dry dog/cat food to any of my turtles. They can probably eat it, they can scavenge just about anything in the wild, but I don't like the quality of the food. The cheap dry foods have a lot of junk filler ingredients, like corn and wheat which are hard for turtles to digest. The meat sources they use is probably the worst quality, unfit for humans. Even the better foods have a lot of preservatives and things like "meat and chicken byproducts" and "wheat gluten". The only dog food I've ever used (for my box turtles) is a very high-quality canned food that I get from the petstore where I work - they give me bent or dented cans that they will not sell. This particular food has ingredients "beef, peas, carrots, potatoes, in beef broth" - no preservatives. I only feed that to the box turtles once a month...
:LOL!!!Good answer!!!
:I was browsing at the site tortoisetrust when I read they recommend to give dog's and cat's food pellets for aquatic turtles!!!What do you think about that???
:Flavia
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