The only reason i have a water heater is because that is what i was advised by the reptile place i bought them from. These are the first turtles i have kept so just going on their say so, does evryone agree then that i dont need to heat the water at all?.
What vegetables do you all feed yellow bellies on?

yellow bellys are maninly meat eaters you can buy a complete dried food what is ideal i also supplemt that with prawns, whitebait, pinkies, chciks (when older) and also koi pellets and cuttlefish mine will sometimes eat some veg but not very often.

Clare

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mine wont eat any veg apart from the dried stuff in the complete dried food

Thanks. I currently feed them on the complete dried pellets and i also give them gamma fish and shrimps as a treat which they eat in two seconds flat, they love it.

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get the king british complete terrapin food thats quite good if supplemented

Try them on Duckweed, it's small enough that they can eat it whole.

I really don't understand why so many people recommend water heaters for these turtles, you just have to look at their range in the wild, it's very wide and there's no way all the rivers and lakes they live in are going to be anywhere near the temps that some recommend.

A warm basking spot with UV is the most important, they'll probably spend more time under that than in the water anyway.

A good reason for not heating the water is to encourage them to get up on land and bask, if the waters too warm they usually decide they like it just fine in the water which then leads to all the problems associated with not basking i.e shell rot, respiratory trouble etc etc. All mine used to get fed a pellet called sera raffy P which we could buy in 5kg buckets from Spain but have been unable to trace a supply in this country so now they get Zoo Med Turtle pellets and In the summer when they are out in their ponds they eat pond plants, pond weed, duck weed, as well as their Pellets.

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Mine has quite a mixed diet, when she's out in her pond in summer I don't feed her much, she eats plants, mostly duckweed, and any pond bugs she can catch, also Mayflys when they land on the surface which she goes crazy for. Once a week or so I'll throw in a small amount of cat biscuits, or something like King British terrapin food.
Indoors she gets the terrapin food every couple of days and duckweed if I have some in the ponds, there's usually some around through the winter. I feed her in a seperate tank to avoid messing up the aquarium water, the roots of duckweed in particular make quite a mess and clog the filter.

I've turned the water heater off, I have noticed they stay in the water a lot perhaps it's too nice in the warm water for them to be bothered getting out to bask. I'll see what happens now in the next couple of days.

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plzzzzzzzz help!

ive just bought a terrapin from my local pet shop and asked if i needed any equipment for it and they said no just a tank water and a dock . my terrapin hasnt eaten since i got him 4 days ago . am i doing anything wrong ?????????

hope im sending this into the right place lol