All turtles are diurnal animals and feed them during the day should be. Food is best given when the turtle warmed enough - a few hours after the bulbs and 3-4 hours before switching off heating: at a sufficiently high temperature, (29 ° C) digestion of turtles occurs in 30-40% better than at lower.

Feeling hungry turtles go in search of food - this is the best time for feeding. After eating a few turtles usually move away from food, and then return to feast.

Young turtles are fed 1 time per day, individuals older than 2-3 times a week. Food is given individually, until the turtle is not enough. But remember that the best "underfeeding" turtle than to overfeed.

What Do Turtles Eat - Unlike many of terrarium animals, which are constantly required to live food, such as: insects, snails, mice, birds and even lizards, turtles feeding are easy. However, it is necessary that the intake of various feed include the basic components. Feeding tortoises covers the lion's share of plant feed, while they, in fact, are omnivorous. They are fed dandelion leaves and flowers, thistles, clover, alfalfa, lettuce, grated carrots and other vegetables, beans, fruits, all varieties (seeds removed), and finally, as a delicacy - bananas. From time to time, they offer earthworms, and well chopped liver and heart, they are particularly fond of. They eat and soaked in water, food for dogs and cats, but contemporary does not recommend the food - it leads to the deposition of salts.

To turtles showed no special dietary preferences, selecting your favorite food and leaving uneaten, food ingredients finely cut or fray, and then thoroughly mixed. In particular, attention should be paid to the feeding of young turtles - any error will affect their development. Prolonged rachitic changes and other strains remain forever. Inexplicably, how do individuals of equal size, outgoing in the same period, under the same conditions, on the same diet react quite differently.

As young turtles grow very quickly and require attention, they are fed every day, saturating the diet with calcium, vitamins and microelements. Turtles less than 6 cm is added feed of these vital substances at the rate of 0,2 g and more than 6 cm - 0,5 g. One adult (about 15 - 30 cm long) was added mineral fertilizer at the rate of 3 - 5 g. Now pet food sold for turtles, containing a balanced diet with calcium supplements and vitamins. These feeds are often in pill form easily assimilated by most of the turtles, after a short adaptation.