Baby box turtle care.
Feeding baby box turtles.
It will help keep them healthy and alive.
The proportions of animal versus plant based food items will depend on both the age and the species of box turtle that you are feeding.
So when you want to feed your turtles and especially the can box turtles then you may want to try aquatic turtle food instead of the types of starfish.
If your turtle is an herbivore provide it with a variety of fruits and vegetables as well as aquatic plants like duckweed and water lettuce.
If you have multiple baby turtles in the same home then the size of the enclosure will need to be bigger.
Alternatively if your turtle is carnivorous give it mealworms.
Feeding a baby box turtle.
A cluster of our baby eastern box turtles.
Notice the shell pattern variation.
Generally hatchlings and juvenile box turtles are more carnivorous than adults which are typically more herbivorous.
Baby box turtles will have a need for a higher protein diet than juveniles or adults.
To feed a baby turtle start by figuring out what kind of turtle you have since different varieties of turtles prefer different foods.
Feed baby box turtles daily around mid morning after they ve had a chance to warm up.
A baby box turtle diet should be 50 percent animal proteins 25 percent fruits and 25 percent vegetation.
So the diet you provide should consist of approximately 70 percent protein sources and about 30 percent vegetation plus some fruits and fungi.
The hatchlings we sell at backwater reptiles are small enough to live in a ten or 20 gallon tank for the first year of their life.