Feeding and Nutrition :: Roaches ok for turts?

[ploskinj]

My husband has a roach colony for his spiders and i fed one to my turt. I can see that she likes it because of that silly dance that she does whenever she likes a food and want more. Are roaches ok? My husband said that for his spiders, roaches are more nutritional than crickets. Can this be true for turtrs?

[jenaero]

I'd say they'd be fine for a treat. I'd expect that they'd be a bit harder to digest than other items. You might want to take off the hard bits of the shell first. Excuse my lack of biological terms as I know next to nothing about roaches..lol.