First and foremost, Hey everyone! I'm new to this website so I'm very sorry if I ended up posting this in the wrong section.
So here's a little background info on my now one-year-old two red eared sliders: They were both about the size of a thumb when I got them as a gift October of 2014, both very shy and didn't eat anything for
months, until one day I removed the Aqua Clear filter I had in their fish tank, they then started eating any food I dropped inside their enclosure, from live/dead minnows to Repto-min pellets. A couple of months later, I realized that they were now far too big for them both to fit on their basking spot, so back in August of this year, I remodeled their tank and removed about half of the water that was in there, as well as increased their basking spot so that they can be comfortable on it (they're both about 2-3 inches long right now). The same day I changed their entire setup is the same day they completely stopped eating pellets... why? The only drastic changes that occurred was me being an idiot and shutting off their UVB lamp for a day or so for whatever reason, and they also killed and ate their goldfish "buddy" I got for them a month after I got them last year. So my question is, is there anyway I can get them to start eating pellets again? They'll eat anything else like meat and minnows as soon as they see it until they're full, although they're way too lazy to chase live minnows around and eat them, either that or the minnows are too fast for them. Later on today I will be cleaning their entire enclosure and will try to increase the water levels again to see if that helps and if you guys would like to see what their enclosure looks like, please ask. On Friday I'll also be heading to the pet store to get them a couple dozen more minnows and was wondering if I should try and feed them crickets?
Thanks for reading! Sorry for the long post.