try small crawdads and grass shrimp if you can catch them,or buy them cheap enough.mine are junkies for freeze-dried krill,too.mine will hardly ever touch sticks(i've tried 4 or 5 different brands)but will go for tubifex blocks,fish,small pieces of raw chicken,and virtually anything freeze-dried.
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1.1 cb spotted turtles (parker(f),stinky(m))
0.0.1 wc baby stinkpots (dinky)
1.1 wc eastern mud turtles(george & jane)
1.1 cb eastern painted turtles (fred & ethel)
0.0.1 mississippi map(lil' dummy)
1.0 cb albino corn(rusty)

0.0.1 wc halloween crabs
0.1 irritating cats (sassy )
2.0 cb children (sidney,12 & kaelan,4)
0.1 wc wife (danae,age withheld due to fears for personal safety)