What homemade foods can a turtle eat?

Any veggies with vitamin A. I have never heard of home made food cause Sliders, cooter, painted, map, yellow bellied all are basically the same and require the same basic care. I

Tomatoes Cantaloupes Watermelon Peaches Kiwi

Oranges Blackberries Sweet potato Kale Carrots

Spinach Avocado Peas Asparagus Squash

Peas Bananas to name a few have Vitamin A which is needed for their eyes.

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Did you know The bigger the environment the bigger the healthier the turtle?

Did you know that they need to bask under a reptile light UVA for 8 to 10 hrs a day for the vitamin D that they need to grow?

So that means getting a turtle dock also. They alwways sleep on the bottom of your tank or pond, or river,stream and or lakes to avoid predators of land and air.

Leave the heater on 75 to 78 degrees always.

Their water needs to be clean otherwise they get sick easily from dirty water cause they poop allot.

You need a good filter system! Gravel larger than they can swallow.

You need to feed them feeder guppies, goldfish or minnows for protein and calcium daily drop 20 or so in the tanks and watch them disappear! This way when they swim for their dinner they get exercise also!

TOSS in a bird cuttle bone in the water for calcium. it will dissolve real slow and if they eat it that’s fine!!

They can have garden worm, meal worms, crickets, flies, crayfish and anything that moves!

They need leafy greens Romaine, Butter lettuce. (Iceberg and cabbage are bad for them, any other leafy greens will do) for vitamin A that they need at least 3 to 4 times a week.

You probably already know that they get sick easily, shell rot, respiratory sickness, lopsided swimming, coughing, blowing bubbles from their nose, Swollen cloudy eyes means lacking in Vitamin A. Which we all need for good eyes. Google ‘vegetables with Vitamin A.

I wish you luck.

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Homemade Turtle Food

Get a slab of wood and sanitize it in the oven. Boiling it in water works too. Wedge the slab in the tank at a shallow angle, with one end on the bottom and the other in the air. That gives the turtles a hide-away, a ramp, and a basking site, all in one. You can also collect your own turtle-food, such as earthworms and minnows. Keep liver in the freezer for times when the live food runs out. Cut it in stripa and dust it with bone meal. Some pet stores will try to sell you a turtle-shaped lump of plaster for the turtles to nibble at as a source of calcium. (Earthworms, fishes, and bone meal are other good sources.) If you want the block, just get a piece of plaster from a demolished building or buy plaster of paris and make your own. Save your money for UVB basking lamps, over-sized filters, and for larger tanks.

I think that the best human food for turtles is liver. (Unless you are into eating live fish, earthworms, and soft-bodied insects. Nothing surprises me anymore.) Dust the liver with bone meal to provide calcium. Dark green leafy vegetables might be accepted, or bits of sweet potato.

If you just got the turtle, it is likely that the turtle won't eat anything until he "settles in".

put some ham on a gril and press it down for 5 mins my adult 12 inch snapping turtle and my 9 inch red eard slider both like it

maybe you could try some other fruits or vegtibles and chop them up small.

green food like lettuce's and more