I posted this before but I only got one very highly pointless response so here goes again....
I recently bought 7 feeder fish for my 4" Red Eared Slider on Valentine's Day.
I've had this turtle since he was barely over an inch big and have only fed him pellets & dried shrimp & krill. He is now 2 years & I bought him feeder fish for the first time this past Valentine's day. So far he has only eaten 1 that was dead soon as we brought it home, and one live one that I gave him 2 days later. There are now 5 live feeder fish that have been living with him in his tank for about 4 days now and he doesn't really bother them much.
I'm not sure if he leaves the 5 fish alone because he can't catch them or maybe if he just doesn't like them?
I want to get pretty fish to go in the tank with him but only if I know he doesn't care for fish. (the feeder fish were kind of a test to see what my turtle would do)
I need to know how much longer should I wait to get the pretty fish to see if he'll eat them or not?
hope this makes sense!
I recently bought 7 feeder fish for my 4" Red Eared Slider on Valentine's Day.
I've had this turtle since he was barely over an inch big and have only fed him pellets & dried shrimp & krill. He is now 2 years & I bought him feeder fish for the first time this past Valentine's day. So far he has only eaten 1 that was dead soon as we brought it home, and one live one that I gave him 2 days later. There are now 5 live feeder fish that have been living with him in his tank for about 4 days now and he doesn't really bother them much.
I'm not sure if he leaves the 5 fish alone because he can't catch them or maybe if he just doesn't like them?
I want to get pretty fish to go in the tank with him but only if I know he doesn't care for fish. (the feeder fish were kind of a test to see what my turtle would do)
I need to know how much longer should I wait to get the pretty fish to see if he'll eat them or not?
hope this makes sense!