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My RES eats only shrimp that are hand fed to him...I can't get him to eat anything else?

Tough love approach. If the turtle is healthy, cut out the shrimp completely. He'll learn eventually.

and give him what to eat?

Depends... how big/old is he?

8 yrs old and a shell about 7 inches long

Have you tried soaking veggies in tuna water?

No I haven't tried veggies in tuna water
What do you do
get tuna in the can and drain water off and put (what veggies) veggies in the water?

I remember when I got my hatchlings one of them would not eat AT ALL! a week and he wouldn't eat I tried enticing him with dipping pellets in tuna water with no success. so I just gave him some tuna and held him down he finally took some bites and started eating. Once regularly eating I slowly migrated him to pellets soaked in tuna water and then just pellets no tuna water then veggies and so on. I guess the trick is to keep offerring. One thing I noticed my turtles wouldn't eat veggies at all. I hand fed them pellets and they got used to being fed like that so I cut up carrots and lettuce in small bits and handfed them they ate it and got used to it. So I guess you can try a similar approach. If he is used to being handfed mix some veggies and shrimp maybe in a blender and freeze for a while so its solid and then try to feed your turtle, keep offerring he will eat it! Remember shrimp should not be the staple of a turtles diet. They should consume more greens. Good luck!

Yes that's the problem shrimp only
But I try that with shrimp and veggies blended and frozen
I mean he gotten pretty big for the last 8 years I have fed him leftovers from dinner so he's eaten more than just shrimp
Lately tho its only shrimp

He should be getting mostly veggies and bit of pellets.

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