Feeding and Nutrition :: Household bugs & Outside bugs?

[eazyegee]

Can bugs that can be found in your house like spider's roaches and flies be fed to RES? Or outside bugs like ants and fireflies be fed?

[Tenodera]

You shouldn't feed ants to your turtles

If you didn't use pesticides inside or outisde your house it might be ok

[industrial_girl_2000]

Don't feed ants. They have a chemical inside of them that isn't good for RES's (it's the chemical that makes an ant-bite burn when they bite you).

I wouldn't feed spiders because they have poison in them.

Flies can carry parasites which can be harmful to RES's. Roaches are not considered "unclean" but they live in filthy conditions so I wouldn't feed them to my RES for that reason.

And if you have roaches, you might want to clean up your house! Yikes! LOL

[eazyegee]

I don't have roaches but I live in an apartment building with other people and they wander inside the apartment sometimes.

[pumpkinsherbet]

are crane flies okay? one landed in the tank some time ago and aeryn caught it seconds after. about a week ago my boyfriend caught a crane fly and put it in the tank.