Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 3:29 pm
I know it sounds silly, but the first time I got my RES to eat carrots was when they were in my chinese take-out. They were sliced very thin & long. I washed them off (to get the salt off) & fed them to Sheba. I think she thought they were worms & gobbled them right up.
Keep in mind that up until 2 weeks ago when I found this site, I had never fed Sheba any veggies because I didn't know they could eat them. She went 16 yrs with many varieties of pellets, fish, catfood, live worms, guppies, etc., but NO veggies. She's health/happy, but I would like to keep her that way so I started adding veggies into her diet (mixed with a little bit of canned cat food).
So if I can get my turtle to eat new things after 16 yrs, so can you! Check out my progress with Sheba in the thread "16+ RES Sheba is finally eating veggies!"
Kristin's Pond! Starring:
RES = "Sheba", 21+ yrs. old
African Clawed Frog = "Prog", 10 yrs old
& "Kristin" as Momma