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Diet

Ultraviolet rays and food play a very important role. Turtles have large requirements for calcium and vitamins. For these reasons, it is not natural to feed tortoises exclusively with lettuce and tomatoes. They are lacking in vitamins and often treated with insecticides, resulting in various malformations and diseases.
With a natural diet, we obtain improvements in health and even recovery for sick turtles.


Tortoises appreciate corpses of animals. Schmitt and Ingu reports even the case of an Indian which knew quickly how to find corpses of drowned persons in lakes, using a gluttonous tortoise attached to a leash.


Terrestrial turtles or tortoises
Acquatic turtles

Aquatic turtles

POSSIBLE FOODS

Vertebrates

Invertebrates

Plant life

Plants: the same as for tortoises to which can be added aquatic plants (algae, watercress, water hyacinth, Spirogyra), present in and around ponds.

Calf's liver and poultry hearts

Occasionally


FOOD TO AVOID

Fish

Meat

Plant life

The same list as for terrestrial turtles.


MEAL FREQUENCY

2 - 3 times a week.
Oyster and egg shells are regularly introduced as a calcium supplement.