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What is the best food for flame turtles and how often are they fed?

Mike Ehrmantraut
2021-06-18 09:32:20
Flame tortoises have more miscellaneous feeding habits and can eat more kinds of food. It is better for breeders to feed animal feed with plant feed, and then feed a small amount of tortoise food at ordinary times, so that they can grow better. Animal feeds suitable for flame turtles include lean meat, animal viscera, snails, snails, small fish, shrimps, earthworms, etc. Plant feeds suitable for them include watermelon, banana, apple, vegetable tender leaves and so on. The synthetic feed can be special tortoise food for tortoises.
What is the best food for flame turtles and how often are they fed?

1. what is the best

food for flame turtles? Flame turtles are omnivorous turtles. They are not picky eaters and can eat more food. Generally, flame turtles are fed with animal feed and plant feed. The animal feed suitable for them is earthworms, small fish, shrimps, lean meat, animal viscera, snails, tadpoles, etc. These foods should be cut or cut into pieces before feeding, then sterilized and disinfected, and then fed to the flame turtle. Plant feeds

suitable for them include cabbage, rape, spinach, water spinach, sweet potato leaves, apples, bananas, watermelons, etc. These foods contain a lot of vitamins and need to be cleaned before feeding to avoid carrying insect eggs or pesticides. If you don't have time, you can also feed some synthetic feed, but it's better not to feed only synthetic feed for a long time.

2. How often should the tortoise be fed

? When the tortoise is young, it can be fed once a day. The feeding time can be 8-9 o'clock every morning. The young tortoise grows and develops faster, so the amount and frequency of feeding are higher. As they grow older, their growth rate will slow down and the frequency of feeding will decrease. They can be fed once every 2-3 days, but the amount of feeding needs to be gradually increased.

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