Baby Painted Turtle Diet: A Comprehensive Feeding Guide

Protein

- Feeder or wild-caught insects: crickets, mealworms, earthworms, grasshoppers

- Dried foods: dried bloodworms, brine shrimp, river shrimp, daphnia, krill

- Commercially prepared turtle food: sinking turtle food pellets or sticks containing animal protein

Vegetables and Leafy Greens

- Kale

- Collard greens

- Mustard greens

- Turnip greens

- Bok choy

- Watercress

- Romaine lettuce

- Endive

- Chicory

- Swiss chard

- Parsley

- Dandelion greens

- Clover

- Hay

- Grass

- Carrot tops

Fruits

- Melon

- Grapes

- Blueberries

- Strawberries

- Raspberries

- Blackberries