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Hey all, Might as throw my 2 cents in here since I’ve had problems trying to feed them pellets. I have 3 baby dbts. They were the size of quarters back in late March, but they are doing well. They are larger than silver dollars by far now (no tape measure on me at the moment). I started them off on bloodworms (the pet store like to call them blackworms). They ignored anything else I tried included pellets made for smaller turtles. They didn’t go for crickets…the crickets spent most of the type on the backs of the dbts when they surfaced or were sunning themselves. As they grew a little larger then they liked the free dried baby shrimp (gammare). Vitakraft sells them in large cans. It’s still their favorite food. . I’ve tried a mixed variation from Vitacraft that has the shrimp and the pellets. It’s helped them to get use to pellet type of foods. They are just now starting to like the T-Rex juvenile sized pellets for aquatic turtles. Only one of them will spit it out when they try to eat them. I have also taken minnows and cut them into bite size pieces (had to use a razor blade to make them small enough) and they absolutely loved it. I save the fish as an ccasionaly treat and some diversity to their lives. I also added to feeder guppies, but the dbts haven’t been able to really cacth any of them, but it gives them something to chase. One guppie even went as far to give birth…bite size morsels for the quick dbt. As they get a bit larger, I hope to switch them over to the reptomin pellets, but I still like to keep up the diversity of food selection. Question I would have is that since I live near a brackish marsh area, what foods could I feed them from the wild that wouldn’t poison or contaminate the tank? I have access to food they would normally eat in the wild when they are larger such as crabs (especially those little fiddler crabs), mussells, clams, etc. Will __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/