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hey i got some shellfish. can does RES eat them? The forum never said anythinga bout shellfish.

Live shellfish as in crayfish or something similar? RES will eat almost anything. Be aware that some shellfish carry a bacteria that's been linked to shell rot...

My nearly two year old RES, Jackson Lee Tuttle, LOVES "craw dads" and will eat all of them except the claw. Rarely, but occasionally, I go with my fiance when he goes fishing and I collect crawdads. Should I stop bringing them home to Jackson? He LOVES them. He's only gotten them three or four times from different places and so far they haven't bothered him, as far as I can tell. If it will reick his life then I won't let him have them! Let me know!

Related question...we have been feeding our RES raw frozen jumbo shrimp on the advice of a person we met that has kept them for 10 years or so. We were feeding them krill, but it makes a mess in the tank & Zelda was so overweight. Doing much better now. We also cut back their feedings! Getting veggies now as well...we will see how they do. We haven't had much luck in the past. Is the raw shrimp ok, or should we be giving them cooked? Or not at all?

I don't know about the raw shrimp, but it should still be given as a treat only (frozen, cooked, or dried). Once or twice a month at most. Keep trying on the veggies...I know it can be discouraging, but the turt will get it eventually.

I save ocean shrimp as a rare treat for my RES. You just never know how the shrimp was handled before you get it, and many of the ocean varieties (like sushi-prepared fish) can have antibiotics in them that aren't good for your turtle.

If the fish came from the ocean, I'd be more concerned with chemicals from pollution than antibiotics (more for farm-raised fish, I think).