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Can baby RES eat feeder guppies or other small fish?? Everything I've seen looks too big for his tiny mouth If so, where can I find them? I have been to Petco and Petsmart and have found only baby minnow. Thanks.

Try chopping the fish up, also try chopping up earthworm and red wrigglers, when mine were babies they loved crickets too.

Do you just put the crickets in there and let them drown? Will they eat them after they drown or will they only eat them while they're wiggling?

Thanks!
Kristen
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1.1 pygmy leaf
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They will eat them when their dead or alive, but turtles like excitement to, so if they see the cricket on the surface of the water then they will go after them.

Thanks so much for the info. After I posted that question, I figured what the heck and went ahead and tossed a few in. Not much went on at first, but then I came back a few minutes later and they were all gone. Now, they get them as soon as I put them in there. One even tried to go after a cricket on a rock...cricket was too fast for him though.

Thanks again...
Kristen
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1.0 carpet
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I had wondered the same thing when I was given a sick baby RES that would not eat. I thought I would try live food for stimulation, but nothing was small enough. Well, I went to Walmart and happened to see that their feeder guppies had just given birth (and hadn't eaten their young yet). So, I bought all the ones that were left. You wouldn't even believe how small they were. Like the size of pencil lead. Not the best bang for the buck, but it was what I was looking for. That ended up working with my sick baby, and that was his first meal.

So, you could drop in on pet stores and check their tanks for little ones or try getting some feeder guppies and putting them in a separate area to breed and then "fish out" the babies.

But like others have said on this site, fish and crickets should be an occassional treat. They are very high in protein, and turtles need more roughage in their diet than protein (especially as adults).

Best of luck with your baby!

Devin