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How often do you feed your yearlings?
How much during each feeding?
And what do you feed them?

I just wanted to see if my idea of a good feeding schedule is right.

Every other day feedings, with a snack in between, and usually 4 or 5 frozen silversides, some beefheart (4 bite size pieces) a piece of chicken heart, and some reptomin, and her mealworm treat...
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Coastal Carpet Python 0.1 (Lillith)
Albino Burm 0.1 (Kimba)
Columbian RedTail 0.1 (Squishy)
Kenyan Sand Boa 1.0 (Shai'hulud)
Common Snapping Turtle 0.1 (Sherman) (RIP Abrahms)
RES 1.0 (speedy)

i fed mine once a day or every other as much as he would eat comfortably. i fed mine then retomin, beefheart, shiners, shrimp, really whatever.

Mine gets fed every other day. He gets about half reptomin and the other half is: a couple of pinky mice, or some superworms, or a chunk of crayfish, or a piece of a snake, or some kind of dead fish, a piece of a mouse, or a frog, or a salamander, or a lizard, basically whatever dead animal happens to be in my freezer. He also has a steady supply of live guppies at his disposal. He rarely eats them. He also usualy eats some goldfish flakes when I feed the fish he shares a tank with.
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Martin Whalin
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Quotes from guys named Carl:

"Science stops at the frontier of logic. Nature does not, she thrives on ground as yet untrodden by theory."
-Carl Jung

"It is foolish to let singleness of purpose deprive one of the joy and delectation of the many wonderful sights and sounds incidental to the quest."
-Carl Kauffeld

Variuos greens daily, mazuri pellets 3 times a week abotu the amount would fit in his head. Supplement crickets on sundays 5-15 small ones. I sometimes replace his mazuri meal with ramshorn snails, night crawlers, minnows, brib, meal worms, ect
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Leopard Geckos
1.1.0 Tangerine Trempor Albinos Caesar and Sunshine
male A&M Gecko line and female Dakman line
0.2.0 blizzards Jasmine and Preciuos
produced from Pete's geckos
1.2.0 Super Hypos Sundar, Turbo, Trixie
Male tangerine H.I.S.S line Female badlys Gecko Party bloodline
0.1.0 DH for patterless x trempor albino

Chelonians
1.0.0 Common snapping turtle, Suebala
0.1.0 Belize slider, Kurma
0.1.0 Egyptian tortoise, Laksmi
0.0.1 blackknobbed sawback, Yudhisthira
0.0.1 stripeneck musk, King Nrga
0.0.1 nothern DBT, Smeagle
1.1.0 Rio Grande Cooters

Your yearling eats greens? I haven't even tried yet. Maybe I should.
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Martin Whalin
My Email

Quotes from guys named Carl:

"Science stops at the frontier of logic. Nature does not, she thrives on ground as yet untrodden by theory."
-Carl Jung

"It is foolish to let singleness of purpose deprive one of the joy and delectation of the many wonderful sights and sounds incidental to the quest."
-Carl Kauffeld

He has been fed greens from day one and it took a very lognm time to get him to this point. He its greens just as much if not more than all other thinsg combined and loves every bit of it. I toss him whole dandelion plants and after work you would never know that anything was put in his cage.
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Leopard Geckos
1.1.0 Tangerine Trempor Albinos Caesar and Sunshine
male A&M Gecko line and female Dakman line
0.2.0 blizzards Jasmine and Preciuos
produced from Pete's geckos
1.2.0 Super Hypos Sundar, Turbo, Trixie
Male tangerine H.I.S.S line Female badlys Gecko Party bloodline
0.1.0 DH for patterless x trempor albino

Chelonians
1.0.0 Common snapping turtle, Suebala
0.1.0 Belize slider, Kurma
0.1.0 Egyptian tortoise, Laksmi
0.0.1 blackknobbed sawback, Yudhisthira
0.0.1 stripeneck musk, King Nrga
0.0.1 nothern DBT, Smeagle
1.1.0 Rio Grande Cooters

Every 2 days
About a dozen goldfish, or alot of turtle sticks, maybe a snake or a frog

Michael
Michael's Place

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I don't have a yearling....but I do have two 6 month old hatchlings named Manson and Hannibal. They are fed every other day (separately), each get: betta food (THEY LOVE IT), reptomin sticks, freeze-dried tubifex worms, sometimes a live pinkie mouse (I'm so glad they can swallow them whole now , currently raw turkey innerd sliced up (just cooked a turkey), earthworm cut in half (shared), minnows and crayfish (when I can get them), and basically a little bit of anything else raw/alive. In addition, they have goldfish, guppies, ghost shrimp and snails in their indoor "pond" which is 2'w x 3'l x 5"deep. For about a month, they also got to eat alot of "false ladybugs" which invaded our house when they ended hibernation (the horrible bugs kept trying to land on their lights and kept falling into the pond).

I try not to give them the same thing twice in one week, except the reptomin and betta food, and since common snappers are native to this area (North PA) I try to feed them alot of what they would be eating in the wild.
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"People who don't like animals are the true freaks",
Jasmine Davies

0.1 White German Shepard (Fugi)
0.1 Rott/Dobe rescue (Angel)
1.0 Chi/Cairn rescue (Puck Oberon Thisbe)
1.0 Formerly Feral DSH (Ajax)
0.1 Forever Feral DSH (Chainsaw Manny)
0.1 Evil/Psychotic Ferret (Kakiri)
0.0.2 Hatchling Common Snappers (Hannibal & Charles Manson)
0.2 African Clawed Frogs (Annabelle & Clarabelle)
0.0.3 Dwarf ACF's (Winkin, Blinkin, & Nod)
0.0.1 Crayfish (Tank)

yearlings will be much less inclined toward greenery as older turtles, but fresh baby spinach is always a winner. i feed my babies mostly shiners that i have injured at least enough to burst their air bladder, so they sink but sqirm. this seems to get them used to snapping shiners. i use shiners as a staple up until they are large enough for goldfish, pinkies, and ultimately chicks, rats, etc.
the main thing is remember that they arent picky, use what is close at hand, and dont leave anything in there long enough to foul the water. as with any predatory aquatic animal, learn what he likes, feed him till he's full, then clean clean clean.