What food other than turtle food can you feed to baby red bellied turtles?

I have 2 baby red bellied turtles and i have a variety of different turtle food for them but heard you can feed them lettuce and banana. Is there anything else i could feed them?|||Tubeflex worms and live daphnia, from pet shops. I also used to feed mine live earthworms and any flies I caught, they loved them.|||i do that with my turtles give them fllies nd worms :) im gunna give it one in a min

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|||my baby LOVES lettuace and brustle-sprouts! just let the lettuce float around and thiy will nip at it! its cute!

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|||yu can also give them small gramma shrimp, n pieces of river shrimp. you can find both of these freeze dried, but only use as treats.|||I have two turtles, you can feed them ONLY romaine lettuce other lettuce has not nutrients for them and can mess up their digestive system, you can also feed them when there bigger COOK chicken with no season as well as COOKED shrimp with no seasoning. I would not feed them banana since the diary can mess up there joints. hope that helped ! :) enjoy your turtles !|||I've read that you can give them most vegetables other than lettuce -- except for Romaine lettuce which is okay.





They can eat apples I think, and strawberries.





Ours is about 6 inches long measured from the front to the rear of the shell. He was in a tank with a goldfish for two years and left it alone. Then I added two new goldfish that I got at an Irani store on Persian New Years (Naruz) when they seem to be sold.





The turtle promptly ate all three fish... not a scale was left.





He doesn't seem any the worse for it, but my wife was scandalized that he "ate his friend" and wants to sell him.|||Baby turtles are almost entirely carnivorous. Whole animals are the best food. Dump a live earthworm of a reasonable size into the tank and your turtles will go after it immediately. Some people keep feeder fish in the tank for between-meal snacks. Avoid goldfish, though; they're the turtle's equivalent of junk food. When you can't get whole animals, bits of liver, preferably supplemented by bonemeal, are good.





Older turtles will accept vegetable food. Dark green leafy vegetables are good. Try kale, romaine, redleaf and greenleaf lettuce (no iceberg lettuce), occasional small amounts of spinach, and bits of sweet potato. Fruit should be given in small quantities, sort of as dessert. It would help to supplement the food with vitamins (Linatone is good) and calcium (bone meal or a cuttlebone).|||You can go out in your yard and pull some clover to feed to him along with some lettuce. Small pieces of a tomato he might like too.|||if anyone says meat meat at all then that is not the best idea because it sofens the shell


hope that helps u a little