HATCHLING TURTLE CARE. Hatchling and baby turtles can be kept in aquariums or plastic tubs of various kinds. I used a 15 gallon plastic storage tub. Plastic storage tubs are very cheap and work well for temporary homes if you do not want to buy a more expensive aquarium.
All of these are herbivores. (see Reference 6) When they are young, such minnows as lake chub, speckled dace, golden shiner, emerald shiner, and California roach eat plankton. (see References 3 and 4) Other young minnows, such as brassy minnow, hitch, common shiner, and spottail shiner, eat algae.
The question, âWhat do newts eat?â is easily answered. They are predators who eat live food, so while you might hope that yours will eat fish pellets, they are more apt to only eat live prey. That includes mealworms, earthworms, tubifex worms, whiteworms, crickets, cockroaches, grasshoppers and other live food.