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Post Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:13 pm   Pomegranate.

I currently have two large pomegranates in my room (yummmm) and I was wondering if I could feed some of the seeds to Donatello or if it wouldn't be healthy for him. I doubt she'll eat it (I haven't been able to get her to eat anything other than red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, and collards).

In other news, I just bought blueberries for Donatello, and she is terrified of them. I tried handfeeding one to her and she would swim up to it, sniff it, tuck her head in her shell and swim backwards frantically (this happened repeatedly). I finally just dropped the blueberry into the tank hoping that she would become used to it and eat it, but a few minutes later, I caught her swimming up to it (it sunk to the bottom), sniffing it, and swimming away frantically. She's normally fearless when she's in the water, so I was surprised to see that she was actually afraid of a blueberry. Maybe she is just like me (I hate blueberries).
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Post Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:38 pm   

LOL about the blueberries & her not liking them. They do have their food preferences, just like little kids.

Pomegranates are very high in antioxidants, but also high in sugar so I would only occasionally feed your turtle one of the "berries".
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Post Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:45 pm   

I don't plan on feeding them to her all of the time, I was just wondering if there were any cons about feeding them to her that I should know. For all I know, she'll be scared of those too.
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