What Do Red Eared Sliders Eat?

Red eared sliders are basically omnivores and they can eat anything like vegetation, insects such as crickets, mealworms, and bloodworms, and small fish. Their diet sometimes even comprises of pinkie mice. In terms of plants they eat freshwater plants that grow in the water, in which they survive. They are also provided with fed lettuce, shredded carrots and potatoes, and many other leafy greens as daily food. At a younger age they are considered to be more carnivorous and later on they turn out to be herbivorous. They have the tendency eat while in water as they do not produce any kind of saliva. Incase they are on the ground when they catch a feed they will go only into the water and then eat it.

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They mainly eat bloodworms or water fleas but you can feed them crickets and goldfish as treats they are also parcial to lettuce or carrots

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