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Aquatic Plants:
In the wild, cooters and sliders feed on aquatic insects, aquatic plants, small fish, aquatic snails, and tadpoles; adults feed more heavily on plant life than do turtle young. Offer aquatic plants, fresh, green vegetable tops, fruit in season, especially melon rinds, bits of raw meat. Try hamburger and meal worms. Keep piece of fresh, green lettuce on water at all times.In the wild, beetle feeds on every kind of aquatic life, such as small fish, tadpoles, worms, other aquatic insects. Needs quantities of food. Give native food plus top minnows and their young; tadpoles and earthworms. Also drop cubes of raw or cooked meat into the water. Always remove surplus food as soon as feeding is over. In the wild, beetle feeds on decaying plant and animal matter plus living water plants and aquatic animals. Feed as predaceous water beetle. In addition, give young aquatic plants.
In the wild, painted turtles feed on larvae of aquatic insects, such as caddisfly, dragonfly, aquatic flies; water beetles, water fleas; fairy shrimp, baby fish; small water snails, tadpoles; aquatic plants, such as duckweed, algae, milfoil, elodea, etc. Give bits of raw fish, small earthworms, meal worms cut in pieces, young of top minnows, small water snails, aquatic insects, small strips of raw liver, pieces of aquarium plants if available, cut-up bits of fresh, green vegetable tops, cut-up bits of waterlily pads. Keep piece of fresh, green lettuce on water at all times.
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