Feeding and Nutrition :: Which vegetables are you feed your turtle?

[chiuhui]

After I read the article, I don't know how to feed.
http://www.redearslider.com/plants.html
As a lot of vegetables are are good for health.

Before reading the article I feed My turtle as below.
Sweet Potato Leaves, Bok Choy,Water convolvulus are the staple of her diet.
She eats food every four days.
Her menu as below

[missibsu]

What is healthy and nutritious to you, may not be for your turtle. I don't recognize many of the items in your pictures, so I can't speak for them. In your list you mentioned bok choy, it is a do not feed item.

Veggies should be offered daily. A variety is also key. Varied kinds of lettuces, red leaf and green leaf for example. Carrots, Dandelions, turnup Greens, Endive...are all things that can be fed. Fruits should be less often, and as a treat.

Like I said, veggies every day, if you want to feed pellets every couple of days, that is fine. I don't know how much the veggies differ where you live, so if these items aren't available, let us know what is, and then we can determine from there.

[SpotsMama]

What kind of pellets does your turtle get?

[chiuhui]

Most kind of lettuce are import vegetables.
Until now I can't make out them adequately, just like green lettuce.
Does green lettuce the same as chinese lettuce?
In Taiwan the chinese lettuce can be bought easily, but my turtle doesn't like it very much.
She just eats a little.
chinese lettuce
http://www.ttvs.cy.edu.tw/kcc/9522ch/ta.htm
I still could get them,most of import vegetables could be founded in Costco and a few supermarket.

I feed tetra ReptoMin(10 pills) and tetra Freeze-dried krill(3 or 4 sterns) after 2 days I feed vegetables.
I don't want her eat too much at ones , so I separate them.
Every 3 days she could eat pills or vegetables.
She get fruit every month at present for stick the Rep-Cal Vitamin.
I try to give her Dandelion leaves, Turnip greens but she spit them.
She like Leaf mustard and Chinese kale but after an half hour she vomited them.
video~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKxEWInPD-Y

Leaf mustard
http://www.agrohaitai.com/leafveg/leafm ... pingpu.htm
Chinese kale
http://home.educities.edu.tw/woodman/image/f7274.htm


She love Sweet PotatoLeaves, Water convolvulus, Water-Cress and Bok Choy.
Sometimes other vegetables she gazes at without seeing.

I try to feed her variety vegetables as far as possible.

[Tilted]

I am pretty sure that they can eat bok choy, just not as a daily food choice

http://exoticpets.about.com/od/aquatict ... urtles.htm

[industrial_girl_2000]

I think the chinese lettuce should be fine since it is a green lettuce, based on your picture.

Go ahead and boil sweet potato & feed it to your turtle! My turtle LOVES sweet potato. The sweet potato leaves are not sold here so I never bought those for my Sheba.

Regarding dandelion leaves, my turtles like the "young" leaves. The old leaves are bitter/tough. Have you tried the young dandelion leaves?

Honestly, your turtle is so healthy looking in the pictures you have posted & I like the variety of veggies/foods you offer her (so many plates of different things!). As long as you continue to offer a variety, I think you are doing a good job.

[chiuhui]

I am pretty sure that they can eat bok choy, just not as a daily food choice

http://exoticpets.about.com/od/aquatict ... urtles.htm

Thank you!
I will feed her bok choy once per month.

[chiuhui]

Does it green lettuce?

She ate it, but not many.
Her favorite is sweet potato leaves.
Sweet potato leaves could not be bought in America?
My turtle always eats "young" leaves.
She is smart that she doesn't eat old leaves.

[marisa]

It looks like green lettuce to me. My turtles prefer young, tender leaves as well (easier to bite and rip up).

[VelvetAlley]

I've never seen vegitables look so good, and I can't stand them.

Your turtle looks healthy to me and you've had her for a long time, I'm with Industrial Girl you're doing just fine.