what do you feed a turtle?
Knowing What to Feed Your Turtle. 1  1. Feed him fruit and vegetables. Turtles have a varied diet which includes fruit and vegetables as well as meat. 2  2. Provide live food. Unlike tortoises, turtles also eat meat. 3  3. Use high quality pellets.
Larger turtles can be offered larger items like tadpoles or feeder fish, though some experts warn that feeder fish may be carrying parasites, etc. and some fish (like goldfish) are too fatty to be fed regularly. Leafy greens: Collard greens, mustard greens, dandelion greens, kale, and bok choy.
Snapping turtles will eat just about anything (alive or dead) they can find in their watery habitat including fish, frogs, drowned animals, crayfish and aquatic plants. A Missourian, with a current fishing permit, can capture snapping turtles in a variety of ways. Catching snapping turtles is relatively easy.