What to Feed a Turtle

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm James Dix from Salt Lake City, Utah. I'm the owner and founder of Reptile Rescue Service. We're discussing what to feed a turtle. This will be on...depending upon what species you have. So I'll give you a couple examples real quick. If you have a desert species, usually they'll wind up eating prickly pear fruit from a cactus, beaver tail cactus. They do like a mixture of greens. Some lettuce. Lettuce does not have any nutritional value for turtles or iguanas. A lot of people think it does. You cannot just give 'em lettuce. You need to give 'em shredded squash, carrots, zucchini, crook-neck squash, dandelions, mixed greens, they love all this. It's very important. And you need to make sure that you do give 'em calcium supplements with D3 on it. If it's an aquatic turtle, a lot of them eat earthworms. They eat gold fish in the water. They'll eat pinkie mice, pinkie rats. They could be frozen dead. Just put 'em in the water and they'll eat it. And they will eat also canned dog food, but give it to them very...in small amounts"