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ABOUT MY RED EAR SLIDER?
i have a red ear slider hes about 4 inches and ive had him for about a year ive been feeding him Omega One Freshwater Flakes for tropical fish that the pet store said to feed him and he loves dried shrimp but im worried about his diet he doesnt want to eat the turtle sticks or pellets he doesnt eat vegetables or fruits i tried alot of things and it seems like the pellets and sticks are the healthiest thing to give him he isnt that big is that y hes not eating alot of the foods does any one have suggestions on feeding him healthy food
also he doesnt like to eat in a separate tank so i have to clean his tank out alot and sometimes i cant do it all the time and the water gets cloudy and his shell is kinda of yellow is this because of the cloudy water
it almost looks like he cant chew the pellets he puts them in his mouth and spits the back even after i break them up
Plain and simple - dirty water is a killer. Without being able to see the turle (and not knowing your temps/husbandry in general, etc.) it's impossible to say if he has mouth rot, or a soft beak due to lack of calcium in his diet. But, he is NOT eating well, and you need to fix that.
This will be a lot of reading, but I'll see if I can help you out with nutrition and care. An informed owner is a happy one with a healthy and content pet.
List of turtle safe foods:
Plants and insects from the wild shouldn't be used. Wild insects and outdoor plants can have mold, bacteria, fungi, parasites and pesticides. So, please don't get food items from outside.
Besides commercial pellets, a list of meat products would be:
Earthworms, rosy minnows or guppies (goldfish are high in fat and shouldn't be fed often), cooked chicken, gut loaded crickets, Phoenix-Silk-Butter worms, frozen Tubiflex or blood worms, krill, shrimp, snails...
A list of safe to eat water plants would be:
Anacharis, Duckweed, Water Lettuce, Water Hyacinth...
A list of vegetables would be:
curly kale, collard-turnip-mustard greens, dandelion flowers & leaves, romaine/red leaf lettuce; watercress; parsley; Swiss chard; shredded carrots; shredded squash (yellow; pumpkin; butternut, acorn; etc.), shredded sweet potato... Just about any good veggie you can think of.
But please do NOT use:
White potato. Iceberg lettuce - it has no nutritional value. Avoid too much spinach & broccoli as they bind calcium. Brussel sprouts & cabbage should not be used. And never Avocado as it is toxic/poisonous to most animals.
Fruits such as:
Cantaloupe, apple, pear, peach, orange, grapes, mango, grapefruit, etc. may be offered a few times a week as a treat item.
A big tank (the bigger the better). An adult female can get 10-12" long and require a 110-120 gal. tank or pond. If you start small, you'll have to keep upgrading as the turtle grows.
Rules of thumb are: 1.) 10 gal. of water per inch of turtle shell length (if it's a 5" turtle it needs a 50 gal. tank), and 2.) a filter which can clean 3X the actual tank size (so if the tank is a 50 gal. the filter should be for a 150 gal.). Turtles are very messy creatures.
-A turtle dock for basking.
-Heat light for basking.
-UVB light for basking.
-Submersible heater to control water temp.
-Good digital probe thermometer or Infrared temperature gun to measure the water and basking temps.
-Sea salt (use 1 level tbsp. per 10 gal. to control algae and bacteria)
-Please don't use gravel (it's an impaction risk)
-Water dechlorinator
-Bird cuttle bone (put in the water) to provide needed calcium
Habitat:
http://www.redearslider.com/index_habitat.html
Feeding:
(younger turtles eat more meat than plant/veggies, so the percentage of which depends on age.)
http://reslider.free.fr/backup/feeding.h...
http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Care/care.htm
General care and info:
http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Info/info.htm
http://www.redearslider.com/
http://www.turtle-care.com/
http://theturtlesource.com/
http://www.petturtle.com/care.htm
Behavior:
http://redearslider.com/unusual_behavior.html
Determining gender:
http://members.shaw.ca/turtles/sexing.htm
I'll post some links below on illensses/ailments so you can see what to avoid.
Most important to these guys is water & basking temperatures, diet, and clean water.
Enjoy your new turtle and I hope this has been helpful.
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