![]() ![]() Calcium (for shell health) can be supplemented by adding pieces of cuttlebone to the diet. Commercial turtle foods should be used sparingly due to insufficient scientific research and vitamin and mineral imbalances. ![]() The captive diet for pet Red-eared Sliders should closely match the natural diet and can also include other foods such as feeder fish, dead, thawed fuzzy mice, earthworms, cooked egg with the crumbled shell included and leafy greens. Diet Red-eared Sliders are omnivores and eat a variety of animal and plant materials in the wild including, but not limited to fish, crawfish, carrion, tadpoles, snails, aquatic insects and numerous aquatic plant species. They will predate on any fish or inverts in with them. Tank compatibility Terrapins should be kept in a terrapin-only tank or pond. It is very hard to tell the sex of a red ear slider until around the age of four when they have matured. Males have longer, thicker tails and longer front claws with the cloaca closer to the tip of the tail. Sexing Females are larger and have a smaller tail than males. However, there are legal implications of keeping/selling these terrapins in certain countries, including some states in the US where it is often illegal to sell any terrapin under 4" long. They are very popular pets in the United States, the Netherlands, Canada, and United Kingdom. Alternative names Red-Eared Slider Origin The Red Ear Slider is a native of the southern US, but has become common in various areas of the world due to the pet trade. ![]()
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