Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 11:47 pm Re: turtle diet advice...new to turtles
In general, you want to go easy on the fruit.
Fruits have tons of sugar, and aren't something a RES will ever encounter in the wild. Thus, they aren't well evolved to process them.
As a very occasional treat, they're fine. A vegetable variety is great, though! Avoid things in the cabbage/broccoli/Brussel sprouts family. There's a chemical that can cause issues in high levels.
But it's great that your RES loves variety and that you are providing it, both for nutritional reasons and in the future if he ever gets picky.
Tobi a RES born in 2012
1 dog, 1 teenager, 3 aquariums filled with fish, snails, shrimp and a bit of algae