Feeding and Nutrition :: turtle won't eat red leaf lettuce =\

[icandish]

My res has never liked greens but she loves carrots and bell peppers (basically anything brightly colored). I've read that too many carrots can be bad because it can cause vitamin A toxicity, but are those decent replacements for greens or should I keep trying to get her to eat lettuce?

[Kansasslider]

My turtles also love carrot slices. My res will eat anything but my map will not eat any kind of lettuce. And my dbt's eat only pellets and seafood.

[steve]

Can you try a veggie clip?

[Kansasslider]

I would say keep trying lettuce. Never know when it might try them. Took mine a while but she can't get enough now!

[Pythagoras]

Here's what I do: I buy salad mix (I think it has about a half-dozen different lettuces in it) and I grab one in the morning for feeding. At the end of the day most of it is gone (unless it's red-leaf lettuce... that one doesn't seem to be all that appealing). Then I pellet-feed. When I'm cleaning the tank after that I take out any lettuce remains. Rinse and repeat. Every so often (every couple of weeks) it's something else instead of lettuce. I eat a lot of fruit and veggies so I mostly just raid my fridge for whatever is easily shared.

But then, I'm new at this, so, I could be doing it wrong. And I'm feeding an adult, so he should likely be eating more veggies than this anyway.