Healthy eating starts with learning new ways to eat, such as adding more fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and cutting back on foods that have a lot of fat, salt, and sugar. A change to healthier eating also includes learning about balance, variety, and moderation.
All turtles need fruits and vegetables for proper growth. Good vegetables for most water turtles include kale, dandelion greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, collards and carrots. Most turtle species need significantly more vegetables than fruit or meat as adults.Give fruit in smaller quantities, every other day or so.Too much fruit can cause digestive problems.Good fruits include bananas, tomatoes, raspberries and blueberries.ood vegetables for most water turtles include kale, dandelion greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, collards and carrots.
You can add all sorts of pond plants to a turtle's tank or pond and find out what they do and do not eat. Turtles that are inclined to eat plants will eat most floating plants like duckweed, azolla, frog-bit, water hyacinth, and water lettuce. Most submerged plants are also eaten like anacharis. It is said that most turtles will not eat cabomba. Lily leaves are relished so do not put expensive ones in with turtles.