Feeding and Nutrition :: Aquatic plant

[joyful]

Anyone put in aquatic plant for your turtle? What did you put in and what did they eat?

Anyone put in duckweed and water lettuce before? Do they eat it?

[mukyo]

Good.. was about to post this.
Anubias: eaten. gone. very fast.
Java Fern (which have branches on tip): eaten half, might be gone soon

will try moss when i have time to go out and buy.

[Mistic811]

Anacharis is great too. Mine like it a lot and they did pretty well with cabomba too although it was kinda messy for the tank.

[sincebirth]

Water hyacinth and water lettuce. They love these two plants, but for small turtles they might not mind the plants unless they are starving..

[kokorome]

hi all
is there any plant that is not liked by RES.

[hwwyahu]

I saw the nutritions part of the web.
Is water fern same as java fern?
Is moss edible? Java, christmas, etc moss
What about moss i found on land in shady area, are they ok?

[elwray]

My RES seem to like anacharis/elodea the best.

I tried growing java moss on the ramp to the ATBA once, but my RES wasn't going to let me do that, and he shredded it apart until it clogged up the filter. I don't think he ate any of the moss.

[Rafa2k]

I've tried Anacharis, they just tear it apart. Any plant I put in, Goldie just rips it apart then swims away. Even the fake plant I put in, Goldie started trying to tear it apart. Tiger uses it to hide in

[waterloo]

i only tried 2 plants and my turtles loved them. It was shocking because my turtles don't usually eat plants/vegs, and i got some of the plants from a friend who has fish and breeding water plants, i put them in for decoration, but greenie ate most of it in 20 mins.

it's corkscrew vallineria, here is a pic of some of them http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/deta ... CatId=2149
the other one i don't know what the name is.

btw: i saw them eating and biting them off from near the roots (but not eat), are they just destroying them for fun or does it indicate other things?

[ignites]

edit:

was going to recommend lucky bamboo then i read this: http://www.reptileforums.net/forums/sho ... o-reptiles and various threads which said its poisonous. so nvm!

[apondfortimmy]

I know my turtles will go as far as to climb onto the hyacinth plants to eat them, so those are a great option for cheap, easy turtle veggies. Lots of protein in those as well, apparently.

I haven't found one that my turtles won't eat. They've devoured anything I've put in. Oh, except horsetail reeds and water lilies, but those are really not tank plants. They grow to be huge. The turtles did like to smash them enthusiastically, though.