Feeding and Nutrition :: what kind and brand of pellets do you recommend?

[DanielRES1180]

Mine have always eaten Reptomin. Never tried Wardley or Mazuri. What is Mazuri anyway?

[marisa]

It's a turtle pellet that's very highly rated (it's the turtle pellet of preference for a number of zoos around the country). I feed it to my RES and he loves it. It is becoming increasingly hard to find, though. Petsmart used to sell it, but apparently is dropping the line in favor of another product.

[aznxturtxlover]

~sheldon~ won't eat amything but the krill, veggies, and fruit. WHY WON'T HE EAT PELLETS???? .grrr.

since he wouldn't eat nutrafin pellets, my sis and i bought Ectotherm's Aquatic Turtle Yummies Advanced Feeding System. it smells funky. in a bad way.

sheldon started swimming towards it, then it seemed like he sniffed it, then he jerked away. that's why i smelled some. and it doesn't smell good at all.

the cuttlebone seems to get the water very oily and makes everything in it slippery.

My sis put some cuttlebone powder in w/ the pellets and shook it up. and since tiki's the only one that'll eat it, she's grown a LOT! yay!! =)

[samandnelly]

I'd feed a mix of some ReptoMin and some ZooMed. I feed 3 pellets of ReptoMin in the morning each and two pinches of ZooMed (they pick and choose, whoevers hungrier gets more and heck, it's only two pinches) and the same every night.

[kneecole]

We love ReptoMin!

lol

[DanielRES1180]

I've pretty much gone from Wardley to Tetra in every product I use. I'm 110% sure you get more bang for your buck with Tetra. So yes, I prefer Reptomin too .

[steve]

I haven't been able to find any Mazuri in small quantities. It does have a better Calcium:Phosphorus ratio and a little less protein than Reptomin.

[Blue Flamingo]

I use zoo-med aquatic turtle food. And my turtle loves it.

[Boogerbutt02]

I don't like Wardley's b/c it causes worms to grow in my tanks- fish or turtle... The only turtle pellets my turtles will eat is the nutrafin, I have tried others and they will not eat it...

[JenniferandPaws]

I use Reptomin

[slidin_sliders]

i thought it was illegal to buy hatchlings..

o well i bought em anyway

[slidin_sliders]

reptomin all the waay

[mandy714]

two of my turtles wouldn't eat the reptomin pellets i gave them. one would eat all of them so i started putting each turtle in a feeding tank and i noticed two of them woul dnever eat. one of them just died a few days ago... what kind of pellets should i get? one of them never eats and one will eat anything. ive only tried reptomin

[steve]

Have you tried something like guppies or gammarous? Soaking pellets in tuna water also helps with the smell/taste.

[mandy714]

yea ive tried the tuna thing. i just bought hbh pellets and zoomed pellets so hopefully he'll eat those. i put a few pieces of romaine lettuce in the feeding tank as well and he seems to be attracted to that. for now i guess i'll give him soem more time