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.
Feed your freshwater turtles a well-rounded diet. Offer your captive turtles reptile sticks and feeder worms as directed on the package labeling. A sprinkling of leafy, green vegetables also helps round out their diet. Add live feeder fish, such as guppies and goldfish to your turtle tank, too. This gives the freshwater turtles an opportunity to hunt for their lunch.