Have you tried good quality, dry, dog kibble, Linda? Mine seems to love it and my softshell turtle will only eagerly eat food that looks brown to him, so I give him goldfish pellets instead. I put into the dish both the goldfish pellets and Reptomin to see which does my small juvie prefers and he always goes for the goldfish pellets first.... After I feed some goldfish pellets to my softshell actually tried to eat quite a bit of the Reptomin sticks. Maybe they like brown color food better....I'm not really sure, though. I soak my dog kibble until it's soft by the way.