What does a baby snapping turtle eat?

Do not feed your snapper live fish or fish that has not been frozen. He's practically guaranteed to catch worms that way. Either feed him turtle pellets you can buy at Walmart or whole fish that has been frozen. The freezing kills the parasites living inside the fish. I know my snapper loves worms too, not sure what the parasite situation is with earthworms. I had to drop $90 on shots to kill the parasite worms coming out of my turtles ass so i'm loathe to find out. I now only feed him turtle pellets, canned tuna, and other lean meat. I'd like to get him some whole frozen fish because the bones and the guts are good for the turtle, it provides calcium and what not. The calcium is needed for shell development.

One other thing, go to chelydra.org and check out the forums. You can find all the info you need on snappers there.

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Anything it can fit into it's mouth that moves, as well as a lot of things that don'tmove. Like most baby turtles, a baby snapper prefers live food. I picked one up from the middle of a road in my neighborhood a couple days ago. He is tiny, probably hatched last summer or fall. I put him in an aquarium with some gravel and about an inch of water and threw in a couple small earthworms and he ate them right away. As they get older they'll scavenge just about anything, but they love worms, tadpoles, frogs, small fish, and about any insect they find in front of them.

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I have raised them for six years and fed mine earthworms leaf worms grubs and cut up leaches. Small black tadpoles and small fish, when they are young I have also fed them bologna. They also will eat pinky mice when they get old enough. The thing to note about snapping turtles is that they are carrion eaters, and scavengers so if you don't mind the mess they will work on the same fish for a few days if it's to big to eat in one sitting.

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I just found my baby snapping turtle and i put him in a tank but don't put any tank rocks or fake plants because when there a baby if the get hungry they'll eat what ever he can get. I feed them earth worms minos, and when they get older you can frogs them pink mice and frogs.But doont worry if he dosn't finish finish it in one meal.

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I feed my snapping turtle chunk cat food, and he eats aquarium plants and guppies too but he was alittle slow to catch the guppies at first and was fun to watch him try! but cat food is the best thing

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I have a baby snapper. He is one year old. he eats so much. is that normal? he is so fat but heathly i have his tank like a clean swamp real nice he loves crickets, raw chop meat and turtle shrimp what do you think?

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i found a baby snapper have no idea how old it is very small (about the size of a quater) i put it in a ten gallon tank with a little pond looking thing with gravel and rocks. im not sure what to feed it, it ate these pellets i got at the local pet store but it stopped. right now im trying lettuce and next im gonna try fish. (guppies)

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The other day i was walking down a street in my neighborhhod and I found 9 baby snapping turtles. I intend to keep one but i think I will bring the others to a shelter or something. I will by them some worms , but i have only had them since yesterday, so for now its just bologna. I only have 2 plastic tubawairs for them for right now. But, hey atleast I saved their lives. I am not sure how old they are, but theye are about the size of a quarter and still have shells that are alittle squishy.

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I found a wee little snapper, but I don't know how old it is. it still has its egg tooth... Anyway, I've been trying lettuce and bread, partially from an experience I had four summers ago(I was ten) in Florida where there was a huge snapping turtle and I dropped my slice of bread I was feeding the birds.... It stared at it for a second and then..... I didn't know turtles could move THAT fast!!! Anyway, i think I'll try next what you guys all said!

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My grandfather found a little snapper turtle on his step and brought it inside. He gave it to us and we had no clue how to take care of it. We fed him a turtle food stick. We think he ate it because it is gone. We also read on this web sight that we should try to feed him guppies. Right now he is only 3 inches long. He moves very fast so we think he can catch the live guppies.

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I found my cute little snapper 5 days ago and i fed it little pieces of bread. He loved it! My snapper is about the size of a half dollar. He is so cute! I put him in a reptile shelter cage with a rock and he loves it I can't wait to see him grow!!

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My cute little snapper's name is woodchip because i found him lying under a woodchip!! I found my cute little snapper 5 days ago and i fed it little pieces of bread. He loved it! I don't know how old he is but he is about the size of a half dollar. He is so cute! I put him in a reptile shelter cage with a rock and he loves it I can't wait to see him grow!! HE IS AWESOME AND I LOVE HIM!!!

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I found a baby snapping turtle in my pond.It is about the size of a quater.My friend and I are taking care of it.We feed it fish flakes and plants.

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I have formed a club called "Save A Turtle".If you find a turtle in a street, you have to put it in a safe place,but if you find a baby turtle in a street, you have raise it,or you have to give it to me to raise.I found a baby snapp- ing turtle,but it was in my dad's pond.

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Raw meat and vegetables, but they are also fond of fingers, so feed them carefully.

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Pet stores also carry food for water turtles that you can use. do not get land turtle food.

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my mom found a baby snapping turtle and gave it to me about a year and a half ago, he is very fast, he loves grapes and minnos, but try to avoid feeding them gold fish. you can also try raw meat, cooked meat, earth worms, meal worms, grubs, basically any insect. or if you dont have alot of time to buy sorts of food for him/her then after you eat dinner give them alittle bit of you're left over meat and vegtibles.

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