Urgent Care :: New Baby Turtle in China, difficulty enticing to eat

[redheadonarampage]

Hi there,

I've recently moved to China and acquired a small red-eared turtle as my new companion. It's only about 1 inch and I've had it set up in its environment for 2 days now. I've been trying to entice it to eat - I've tried turtle pellets, mosquito larvae, shrimp, bok choy and boiled eggs but it doesn't seem to want to eat. I'm getting really worried as it's becoming very inactive. I don't want to lose my little green friend.

Visiting a vet is somewhat a difficulty because of the language barrier so I was wondering if there was any advice from first hand experiences as to what I should do. Or maybe someone else that lives in China (Beijing to be exact) that might know of somewhere I can take my little fella to get checked up on.

Thanks!

[steve]

Try some live prey... minnows and guppies that can squirm (with you holding it by the tail) in front of it's face.

[Kurtni]

What kind of environment do you have it set up in?

[Peva]

Any pictures of the environment? Sometimes little turtles just don't make it.

[Miss Tee]

Warm water, basking area, room to swim?

Try soaking turtle pellets in tunawater. They love smelly things!