Turtle Food List
This means fresh legumes dried grains rice cakes and any other form.
Turtle food list. Prepared tortoise chows especially mazuri tortoise diet zoo med natural grassland tortoise food or zoo med natural. Boiled eggs mealworms snails crickets earthworms vegetables. Place insects on the land area. You can also go with edible aquatic vegetation such as water lettuce water hyacinth and duckweed.
Examples of citrus fruits include oranges grapefruit and lemons. Freeze dried plants cactus fruits or insects fresh dried cubed or pelleted hay live or frozen baby or young mice and rats live or freeze dried worms slugs snails. Carrot tops lettuce collard greens kale spinach fruits. Corn beans beets carrots peas squash yams greens.
For fruits consider shredded apples and melons as well as chopped berries recommends dr. Turtles are generally omnivores eating a mixed diet that includes. Shredded carrots squash and zucchini are great foods that turtles can eat too. They should not be offered to tortoises in any form.
The main types of fruit that are the least likely to cause digestive problems for turtles are fruits that are citrus based. Peaches are an exotic item that most turtles will eat. Three or four times a week serve 1 to 2 teaspoons of dark leafy greens such as kale collards. Foods popular for pet turtles depending on the species include.
Apples grapes strawberries.