Hello everyone,
I have a red-eared slider named Frank (Frankie she was named before I knew she was a girl). Anyway I have had her for 8ish years and she is doing great. My aunt had three red eared sliders and no longer wanted to deal with them ( it is aggravating when people don't realize that turtles are a 20-30 year commitment.) So I told her I would take them I was given a 55 gallon tank, a heat lamp, some rocks, a filter, and the three turtles. I brought them home and cleaned everything brought in a UVB light along with the heat lamp. Added to small water heaters and increased the water depth from like 4" to probably 12". It was sad when I first put them in the water they tried to lift their heads to get air and stretched all the way out and couldn't reach the top and fell backwards. They had never been in water that deep and didn't know what to do. So on to my question, they were of course eating pellets and meal worms their entire lives. I have tried to feed them jello shots, blue berries, tomato, romaine lettuce, and strawberries. They ate a bite out of a blueberry and a bite out of the strawberry and that is it. I have kept putting in some pellets just because they are barely eating and I am concerned. It there anything else I should be trying? They were shedding skin really bad the first couples of days which seems to be getting better now. This is the first I have had to deal with potentially sick turtles that won't eat so any advice would be great. Thanks.
