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18-Jun-06, 11:43 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Coffs Harbour Gender:  | | | Best way to get calcium to my short neck turtles
I need my turtles to get alot of calcium in their diet (like most people do).
Right know I have calcium block (which is allways in their) and I have small lean beef balls rolled in calcium and frozen but the turtles arnt to keen and never eat them.
Any ways of how to get calcium in their diet would be great!
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18-Jun-06, 12:16 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-05 Location: Perth, W.A. Gender: | | | | RE: Best way to get calcium to my short neck turtles
Small fish like guppies, gambusia and other small feeder fish are great for getting calcium into your turtles. Also some of the different types of pellets have a fair amount of calcium and vit D. Although it can be hard to get some turtles eating the pellets.
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18-Jun-06, 01:27 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-05 Location: sydney | | | | RE: Best way to get calcium to my short neck turtles
pond snails are a good source too. the turts crunch them up happily. i used to feed mine on liver dipped in calcium powder sometimes as a suppliment
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18-Jun-06, 01:33 PM
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GUPPIES HAVE CALCIUM?
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18-Jun-06, 01:55 PM
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Zeus what the other replys say about live food items is the go,there is calcium and minerals in garden worms,water snails and gambusia,all these items are relatively easy to get.
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18-Jun-06, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Zeus_the_beardie GUPPIES HAVE CALCIUM? | If it has bones, it has calcium. Or a shell.
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18-Jun-06, 03:42 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-06 Location: Darwin, NT Age: 17 | | | | RE: Re: RE: Best way to get calcium to my short neck turtles
i feed my turtle mainly on the turtle food frozen blocks, and other thins they eat are the plants in the tank, the snails, and if you buy slow fish like comets they tear them up and if you put roaches on the top of the water they rip them to, and these turtles are the size of a 20cent pice and 50 cent peice and they eat anything
mine are yellow faced turtles (emydura tanybaraga)
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nah i dont want one of these
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18-Jun-06, 04:25 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-04 Location: Sydney | | | | RE: Re: RE: Best way to get calcium to my short neck turtles
A good all round diet should give them what they need. Like the tanybaras.
I'd give the beef strips the boot.
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18-Jun-06, 04:38 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: NSW Age/Gender: 26 | | | | RE: Re: RE: Best way to get calcium to my short neck turtles
I second the water snail. All my turtles love them, rams horns are the best. Also try making turtle pudding.
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18-Jun-06, 08:19 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Coffs Harbour Gender: | | | | RE: Re: RE: Best way to get calcium to my short neck turtles
ram horns??
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18-Jun-06, 08:20 PM
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tanybaras?? wat r they
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18-Jun-06, 08:26 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: NSW Age/Gender: 26 | | | | Re: RE: Re: RE: Best way to get calcium to my short neck tur
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Originally Posted by Zeus_the_beardie ram horns?? | [img]http://home*****tel.com.au/strange1/Website/Feeding/Foodtypes/Breedit/Water%20snails/Ramshorn.jpg[/img]
Rams horns snails 
Emydura tanybaraga are yellow faced short neck turtles, Class 2 on the NSW license system.
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19-Jun-06, 04:40 PM
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were do i get ram horns??
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19-Jun-06, 04:47 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: NSW Age/Gender: 26 | | | | RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Best way to get calcium to my short neck
Most petshops will sell them for ~$2 each, get a couple and get them breeding, you will haev billions in no time!
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19-Jun-06, 09:04 PM
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Cool!!!!!!!!!!
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