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Feeding my turtles

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Question
I have two turtles, a Red ear slider & a Painted turtle. They get along great. The Painted turtle would never eat pellets. I bought some feeder fish but to messy, so I feed him crickets & Superworms(Zophobas morio.)Now, he seems to only want the worms. He will only eat a couple of crickets if that. The slider eats everything.I think the Slider is eating to much. These are my first turtles & I want to make sure I'm giving them a proper diet. I also have two of those feeder fish living with them. They eat sraps, as you know turtles are messy eaters. What do you think? They seem healthy. Is it ok to have the fish with them?

Answer
So, cut back on the food a little. It is really easy to overfeed turtles. And fish make better cagemates for turtles, if they don't eat them, than other turtles do in most cases.

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