Terrapin won’t eat dry food
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Hi,I bought a baby Diamondback from a pet shop that is about 1.5″ long and have been trying to feed it pellets, dry shrimp and other packaged turtle foods I normally feed my other juvenile DBT, but this baby terrapin would have none of it. It would be interested and then spit it out. The first few days I thought it was the anxiety due to a new environment. On the fourth day I gave it a meal worm and it chomped it down pretty quickly. I then gave it a feeder fish and it went after that pretty quickly too. The next day I gave it some pellets and were pretty much ignored. The question is should I try to get it to eat packaged foods or should I just relent and feed it live food always? Presumably these pellets are formulated to be good for its development so I should get it to eat some? Also keeping live feeders and worms around isn’t really that convenient. If it is a good idea to get it to eat dry pellets then what is the best way to get it to do that? Thanks,Ray
Hi, I had this problem with one of mine. One would only eat moving things, one would only eat dry food. I started putting crickets and pellets on top of the water at the same time to confuse the turtles, and they would grab at anything on top of the water. They both now eat dry and live food. I tricked them, but it worked. AJ —–Original Message—– From: ray tai
It can take any reptile around 2 weeks to come around and start eating….. some do it sooner than others and some a bit longer… just keep offering the foods ……. if after two weeks your still having issues…… i’d try feeding it small bites of cooked shrimp and if it refuses that I would consider taking it to a vet because I have never heard of a terrapin or turtle for that matter refusing cooked shrimp. Michaela
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