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Getting Turtles to eat pellets.....

fit4him Sep 11, 2004 07:47 AM

Any hints on how to get turtles eating commercial pellets.....mine are only eating worms, beef, etc.....

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Colchicine Sep 12, 2004 03:35 PM

Simple, don't feed them anything else until they eat pellets. The turtles will always hold out until they get their familiar foods. You could not feed your turtles for the next month and they won't even come close to starving. So just wait it out, they WILL eat it eventually.
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