There is also a professional answer:
Many profiteers who buy and sell pets recommend "special turtle food". When I got back, I found that turtles didn't like eating, or even didn't eat at all. In fact, those so-called "turtle food" are basically cheating money. In order to make money, profiteers only sell you garbage that turtles don't eat. They are eager to buy another one as soon as you die, so don't buy the so-called "turtle" recommended by profiteers when buying a turtle. Sisby red-eared turtle mainly eats meat, such as small fish, shrimp, loach, earthworm and insects. I often give a fly a snack when I kill it. Generally, newly bought turtles have weak eating ability and won't prey on live food, so you need to feed them a little at this time. Be patient when feeding it. Cut the fresh meat into mung beans, clamp them with tweezers and slowly reach the front of the turtle's nose. It will smell carefully before eating. Practice makes perfect. Generally, it is enough to feed one cigarette butt at a time. When you are young, you should feed it three or four times a week to make it adapt to the environment quickly, because it will sleep when it is hungry for a long time, while the turtle who is too young often won't wake up when sleeping, so you should feed it more to prevent it from sleeping. When it's bigger than a matchbox, you usually eat it yourself. It can put some small ones at this time. Don't put too much, or you will kill a lot but don't eat it, so the water will stink as long as it is put for one day at most, and the same is true for feeding meat. Don't waste it and don't feed it as much as possible, or it will collapse. My turtle used to tilt its head and limbs back, which is very funny. I vomited several times, showing how worthless the turtle is! Overfeeding will make turtles grow too fast. It's not fun and cute when it grows up, unless you save it for eating, hehe! I have a friend who bought a turtle with me. I ended up feeding too much. In less than two years, it grew to the size of a bowl. All the patterns on my body are gone, which is very ugly. It also makes a gasping sound, like a dinosaur. When I was that big, I could eat a basin of loach in a week, which shows its horror. So when I grow up, I can feed it once a week. It's best to feed some small fish to make its shell grow harder.
There is also a small turtle bought in the market, commonly known as scripta elegans. If you give up farming, you must not throw it into the natural fresh water area to "release it" (although there are few rivers in China that are not polluted, releasing it is like killing people. . . As a ferocious omnivore with strong vitality, the Brazilian tortoise has been listed as one of the alien invasive species in China. (Don't just buy it for fun)
On the other hand, we have two Brazilian turtles at home, and the menu is as follows:
1. Live shrimp
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The little turtle lit up at first sight and wolfed down ten times as much as the old professor of obstetrics and gynecology ate steamed bread in the "living" room. No matter how much you put, you can swallow as much as you can, and those who can't swallow are killed. Therefore, we should often feed live shrimps to change water, at least once every two days, otherwise people will stink the turbid dead (excrement) water!
2. Live fish
Popularity index: same as above
Eating is more cruel than live shrimp, and the fish tank water goes bad faster!
3. Dried shrimp/dried fish
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Live shrimps and live fish bought from the market of flowers, birds, insects and fish may not be able to "get into the tiger's mouth" alive, fish them out and sun them in the newspaper. Turtles also like to eat, but they are less passionate and bloody. Change water ~ you can be lazy for a day or two.
Step 4 bait
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Although the tortoise is not me, I am not a tortoise either. After eating live shrimp, live fish and dead shrimp, we had to feed some coarse fish food (note: fish food is not turtle food, and our turtles never eat that stupid thing ~). There is no way to compare the taste with the real thing, but the ingredients are uniform, so the color of the shell of the turtle is obviously gorgeous after eating for a period of time.
The water can be changed every four or five days.
5. Vegetable leaves
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Things that don't smell like meat are generally ignored unless there is no other choice.
6. cereals
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When the ammunition and food at home are used up, the best way is to grab a handful of cereal and throw it in, which is also popular and makes it look like a hungry person in Ethiopia.