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Red Eared Slider Feeding

Cflaguy said:
but wondering about the excessive Vitamin C.
And she is a Central American Ornate Wood. Was sold as a Honduran Wood Turtle.
Her favorite is fruit. She'll let Spring Mix sit all day till she gets hungry enough. But fruit is gone in ten minutes. Gonna try earthworms.
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just make sure you get nightcrawlers. you can get them at just about any place that sells fish bait. my wal-mart even sells them. dont get red wigglers, these can actually be toxic. as they are used in composting and may be contaminated with pesticides. i think red wigglers also have some sort enzyme or something thats toxic as well.
it's fun to watch them eat nightcrawlers, they eat them like spaghetti. yeah mine dont go much for the greens either. they'll eat them, but they'll usually wait to see if i'm giving them worms. CA Woods are more carnivorous than other turtles. in the wild they dig up earthworms and they even eat mice.
 
Penman6668 said:
I got the cuttle bone tonight. Any tips on breaking off pieces. It just seems to turn to powder.
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i usually just snap it in half with my hands. cuttlebone is pretty brittle.
 
I've never given Edna (about 6 years old or more) a cuttle bone. I have given her a few drops of the calcimize reptile water conditioner stuff, but only recently. She has never needed the extra calcium, but I'm not saying not to do it.
 
Got one more question. I am sorry if it sounds silly but I do not know. I had my three toed box turtle out back because the weather was nice (it changed quick, it is raining now) and I was wondering if I could take out the slider out back. I was going to put him in the yard (out of water) and did not know how long he could be out of the water? I did put him in the little tub of water out there.
 
Forgot about

Tubliflex worms. They do love them.
A warning about cuttlebones. They are dead fish, or the scales left over I should say. Make sure to wash your hands afer handling them.
 
Thank You I will try the Tubliflex worms. He seems to love to eat. I bought the ReptoMin Select A Food (mini krill, mini sticks & baby shrimp).
 
Ooo, your spoiling your baby! :cheers:
I take Edna out for maybe 20-30 minutes at a time, SUPERVISED. They are fast on land and will run away. Plus, predators can get them. Be careful of them walking over pesticides, ant poison, fertilizer, etc...
They like to walk around and get exercise every now and then.

I had a bad incident where Edna wedged herself underneath a kitchen chair. Somehow a very small chunk of her top shell got scraped/gouged out. It healed, but its a more fragile are (and clear) than the rest.
 
cuttle bone

A warning about cuttlebones. They are dead fish, or the scales left over I should say. Make sure to wash your hands afer handling them.
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Cuttle bone is the bone of the cuttle fish it is not dead fish or fish scales.
 
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I had a customer (when I worked in a pet store) get a bacterial infection from a cut she received from a cuttlebone. Of course she gave me hades about it. Her doctor told her cuttlebones were left over fish scales and whatnot. Which of course I also heard about. My manager told me the same.
Regardless, I would still wash my hands after handling one. I should have formed my response in a question. :bang:
 
Your customer should have washed her hands after cutting herself, like normal people do who don't want to get infections. :bang:
Anyway, as usual for petshop employees, your boss was wrong. (No dissing to you intended.) A cuttle bone is not exactly from a fish, it from something called a cuttle fish that is a squid. Here is the info on it and a pic.


Cuttlefish are animals of the order Sepiida, and are marine cephalopods, small relatives of squids and nautilus.
Cuttlefish have an internal shell, large eyes, and eight arms and two tentacles furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey.
Cuttlefish possess an internal structure called the cuttlebone, which is composed of calcium carbonate and is porous to provide the cuttlefish with buoyancy.
 

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Cflaguy said:
I had a customer (when I worked in a pet store) get a bacterial infection from a cut she received from a cuttlebone. Her doctor told her cuttlebones were left over fish scales and whatnot. :bang:
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Obviously the doctor was wrong as well.
 
Cuttlebone

Here is a link to what cuttlebones are made of:
http://members.aol.com/pacificASC/artcuttl.htm

It is it skeleton of a cuttlefish.

I also agree. WASH YOUR HANDS. We go to Sam's Club to buy the big jugs of hand soap because I wash my hands so much. I wash them before cleaning cages, if I need to grab something else I wash again and when I am done I wash again. My wife thinks I have OCD.
 
awesome pic!

but yeah definitely wash your hands after handling any animal. at the animal shelter i volunteer at, i have to constantly remind people to wash their hands before and after handling a puppy. especially when they want to handle multiple puppies. i have them wash their hands before handling the next puppy. puppies dont have great immune systems, so handling one puppy then handling another can pass disease.
and it just really amazes me when people bring their babies into the animal shelter to look at puppies. that is the last place i would bring a baby to. they let them crawl on the floors too!!!! AAAHHH! do they not realize that with over 200 dogs defecating, urinating, walking outside in the runs and then coming back inside tracking stuff in that there's all sorts of nasties on that floor?!?!?
 
Does anybody know of safe plants you can put into the tank with the red slider?
I have a ton of java fern but I heard it can be bad for turtles.
 
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