Most turtles need a diet consisting of both meat and leafy greens; frozen food specifically designed for tropical fish offers numerous nutritional options.
Guppies, rosies & comets may have an excessively high calcium/phosphorous ratio that requires them to be fed regularly as they often end up becoming fat (some even speculate they promote heart disease). Brine shrimp contain too much salt for turtles.
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Feeding Instructions
Pre-portioned blister packs make feeding your turtle an effortless process – simply open, defrost and add to their tank. Each frozen meal includes vegetables and animal foods rich in Vitamin A that provide your turtle with essential nutrition – helping prevent lethargy and edema caused by vitamin A deficiency in reptiles.
Most aquatic turtles are omnivorous and should receive both animal- and plant-based foods as food sources. Animal-based sources include processed pet foods like drained sardines or turtle pellets; live prey includes moths, crickets, wax worms, feeder fish shrimp and krill.
Vegetarian-based foods for your turtle include dark leafy greens like collards and dandelions, squash, carrots and bell peppers; as well as high oxalate vegetables which bind calcium and cause health issues. Achieve an appropriate calcium:phosphorus ratio in their diet to ensure good health in adult turtles; after they reach maturity you may wish to adjust feeding days to every other day or less frequently according to appetite and activity level.
Precautions
Many turtle breeds are omnivorous and need both animal and plant matter in their diet. Fresh vegetables such as collards, kale, mustard or turnip greens, bok choy, Swiss chard and watercress make excellent additions. Be wary of those containing oxalates which bind calcium and prevent its absorption into the body.
Before feeding fruits or vegetables to your pet turtle, ensure they are free from pesticides and other chemicals which may lead to digestive distress, malnutrition and possibly even death. Ingesting such chemicals could result in digestive upset, malnutrition or even death of turtles.
FishScience frozen turtle food provides your pet with a convenient source of meat and veggies in one cube, along with all essential vitamins and minerals essential to proper turtle health. As part of your pet care routine, we suggest light dusting off some reptile-specific multivitamin powder on his vegetables 2-3 times every week.
Storage
These freeze-dried fruit pieces are specially made to cater to aquatic turtles, serving as tasty treats or mixed into their regular food regimen. Packed full of vitamin C and calcium, these pellets don’t leave behind an unpleasant aftertaste in your aquarium! Additionally, due to being low-moisture they won’t cloud up the water either!
Box turtles in their natural environment are omnivorous animals that feed on both plant- and animal-derived foods. Fresh fish should only be given occasionally due to bacteria, parasites, and pesticides that could make your pet sick.
River shrimp provide your turtle with all of the nutrition it needs in a balanced and satisfying diet, offering tasty alternatives to live prey that is easily added into their aquarium. Packed with protein and amino acids for proper development of muscle mass as well as minerals and vitamins essential to immune health and stress resistance.
Ingredients
Items typically used to care for tropical fish can also be helpful to caretakers of reptiles and amphibians. Many frozen items available for these creatures often receive rave reviews by those reptiles and amphibians that don’t like live food such as turtles and terrapins.
Frozen shrimp, clams, and mussels make nutritious supplements for most freshwater turtle diets, while marine foods such as sand eels and krill may be especially welcomed by owners of diamondback terrapins who live in estuaries or brackish environments.
Animal and vegetable foods should form part of a balanced diet for pet turtles, and San Francisco Bay brand’s Healthy Herp Aquatic Turtle Diet Adult Formula provides this nutritional balance. With fish meat, turkey heart, gammarus and spinach as ingredients to aid healthy bone development and overall well-being for aquatic turtle species across multiple genera, San Francisco Bay’s diet will promote strong bones and shell health while stimulating appetite, encouraging growth resistance to stress, encouraging long life span and longevity for your aquatic turtle.
