Baby painters will be most responsive to live food. As previously mentioned, things like earthworms, mealworms, crickets. If it is very small cutting up the food into small pieces would be recommended because they swallow their food whole for the most part. Sometimes they may try to shred it into small pieces themselves with their claws. Leafy greens should be offered too, but most turtles wont end up eatting them.

I imagine that the little turtle will probably become a pet as well. They are cute and hard to let go.

If they end up keeping it I can offer some better advice then.

Good luck!

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