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What does moderately mean? I just read the nutrition information, and carrot is listed under moderate. Limu loves carrot now and has been eating it daily (for the past 3 days), but in very small quantities. How many times a week/month should I feed it carrot?

Maybe once a week.

What kevin said ^^^

There are many other veggies that are very beneficial.
Such as

Dandelion leaves
Green Leaf lettuce
Red Leaf lettuce
Romain Lettuce

I agree with the above UNLESS you have a RES that has NO interest in greens! Tobi girl eats NO greens but will eat some carrots, so I buy the bags of sliced carrots and give her only a couple small slices daily. (But she is 10" long...) So I suppose it would depend on your turtles' size...lol

Yes, when turtles are young they dont really have the interest in veggies
But you have to put that interest in
and hook them on the veggies

I my self is having problems getting my guy on veggies
But im trying
because when he grows up itll be a major part of his diet

Moderate means "once in a while" as in, "not every day."

For example, ("moderately" used in a sentence): eating McDonald's food is fine if a person only does it "moderately."

I give my RES about 4-6 thin carrot peels weekly to a week and a half. It depends on what else I've got for him to eat.

I was feeding carrot about twice a month for a while. Personally, I like the coloring it added to the plastron




Now I've cut carrots down to once every two months or so. The color has faded some

Ya the color looks really good
I started Tito in carrots every wednesday

That is so cool Jenaero

My turtles love carrots

I usually get Mr. Turtle carrots about once a month, but I give them to him (just a small amount) daily for about 5 days or so. With him being a larger turtle he consumes quite a bit of veggies a day, so the small amount he gets is maybe 1/3 to 1/4 of his daily amount those days.

I do it that way just so I don't have left over carrot that goes bad just by giving it to him once a week.

I feed my RES carrots once a week. Every Monday I cut up a piece a little larger than the size of their combined heads into tiny pieces and they go wild for it. It's one of their favorites.