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HI all,

How do you guys keep worms (wigglers and waxworms) in the turtle dish? The red wigglers always manages to get out. I can make the dish too deep because I am afraid my little turtle can't get in or won't see them.

Thanks, Linda

What I do is put the turtle and the food in the same (big) dish for awhile (a couple of hours sometimes). The food can’t get out and the turtle can see the food.

I do the same with water: a little tepid water (maybe 3/4 inch) in one of those square plastic tubs that you use to wash dishes in your kitchen sink, turtle goes in the water, he drinks (leave him undisturbed for this, they are sometimes shy when drinking, which can take ten minutes or more sometimes), then he defecates after drinking. When you go back to check on him and see that he’s all finished, you take him out, rinse him off, and place him back in his home.

I offer mine food every day, sometimes a small morsel (one superworm, perhaps, or one earthworm or cricket) several times a day. This seems to work well and it replicates their natural feeding activity in the wild. Water I give every two or three days, the same as (actually, more often than) what would be found outside after an occasional rain.

I just cut them in half.... Or...I offer it to them with forceps.

Cut them up into smaller pieces.