Habitat - Indoor :: how to feed turtle letuce

[jameshermanto]

musa like it (4 inch), henokh (8 inch) love it very much!!!, yakub ( yes a little bit, sometimes she wants my hand), but... Lot, Yosua, Abraham (even the biggest one!!), Nuh, Ishak, Ayub doenst like the lettuce, they just ignore it, and try to bite my finger =__=, then i try another shot, i make jelly shot, wow and nuh (4.2 inch), ishak (4 inch) love it, so i feed them everyday jelly shot =__=, but about ayub and Abraham (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO), they just ignore the lettuce and jelly shot, then i give tuna juice to lettuce, so make the lettuce smelly. its nothing they just ignore it.... what a beautiful problem.

[EmperorTunaFish]

You may need to stick to tough love and keep offering it while cutting down on other stuff. Eventually they will eat it. Once my turt started eating lettuce, he developed a taste for it and now actually likes it.

[VanishingReality]

It took my little guy a few months to try it and now he really can't get enough of it. He actually likes veggies more then pellets!

[moldygrape]

i agree, starve it for a day and BOOM!!!....... youll have a lettuce lover..... they are such fatties!!!!!!! they cant wait to eat!

[Raphulk]

just get a veggie clip and leave the lettuce on the clip inside the tank until your turtles are curious enough to take some bites

[blackforces get you]

yeah i forced my turtles into eating it. i leave it in there and they always look for food but if they dont eat it thats all they will get. so if they dont eat it ill just leave it there untill thay starve :p

[jameshermanto]

thx all!!! so what did i do, just let it starve, after my turtle beg food, than i give him lettuce!!. thx all =D really i love redearslider.com different with the other!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LorJ]

I have been lucky where my turtles like to eat veggies (or anything). I too use a veggie clip in their tanks and it works well.

[theartbook35]

I don't always have lettuce in the house, but when I do I break it into some very small pieces and just drop it in the tank. They sometimes want it and other times they aren't in the mood for it. I've had moments where they usual favorite food is ignored, and they want something they usually don't go for. My guess after living with turtles for a while is to just give the lettuce to them, and if they don't touch it within a few minutes, just leave it there for a while and they'll eat it throughout the day. That's what I've always done, and they eventually eat it all. It's actually better for them to be able to eat over the course of the whole day, seems to keep them calmer and not as hyper everytime I walk by the tank.

Edit: I give them a lot of protein, by the way. I have a processed three in one can that lets you choose between grass sticks, dried baby shrimp and dried krill. I also feed them gammarus pellets which have a little bit of everything, and they go crazy for those. They do eat the grass sticks, one day they just decided they liked it and starting eating it. There are also live plants you can buy that are safe for turtles to eat. I don't like them because the turtles will damage them so severely after eating that they don't grow back... It's not good for security either when they eat their hiding place.

[Caphits]

I usually just throw in a whole amount that I give him. Sometimes I will tear them into strips, to make them a bit more manageable.

Also, as theartbook says, Sam doesnt attack the lettuce like a maniac, but simply grazes on it.

[theartbook35]

I usually just throw in a whole amount that I give him. Sometimes I will tear them into strips, to make them a bit more manageable.

Also, as theartbook says, Sam doesnt attack the lettuce like a maniac, but simply grazes on it.

I did notice, also, that if they eat lettuce on a regular basis, my turtles get weird attitudes. They don't want to be handled, and don't want to go near me. I guess it their way of saying, "Give us the good food, stupid human".