Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:33 pm
Corn (ground, corn meal) is an ingredient in a number of pellets that are out on the market; it is, however, one of many ingredients, all of which together hopefully provide balance in the diet. I think that occasionally feeding a bit of corn would be OK as part of the over all diet (I've done it, but not for a while), but I wouldn't make it a daily thing. Offering leafy greens daily---dandelions, red leaf and romaine lettuce, for example, and sometimes offering a few kernels of corn, would be better. The fact that your turtle is picking out the corn to the exclusion of other veggies and doing it daily doesn't sound like a very balanced diet.
"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." -Antoine de Saint Exupery-
I still wouldn't give corn every day, even if it is with other veggies.