First and foremost, the video attached is not for the faint of heart. So what your turtles eat may depend on where they live and why you keep them. Or feeding them an excessive amount causes health issues. Turtles need lots of foods with vitamin A, so choose plants like carrots, squash, bell peppers, and other red, orange, and yellow vegetables. Turtles should eat a healthy mix between fruits, vegetables, meat, and pellets. Turtles can benefit a lot from the vitamins in the vegetables, just be careful because some vegetables contain little to no nutrients, and they are just a waste of time. And some vegetables, like spinach, contain oxalates that are actually harmful to turtles. Still, most ponds will offer a great variety of land and water plants, a great selection of insects that can also greatly change with the season, most ponds also have a lot of worms near them that can also be eaten by the turtles. [6], The young leaves of the French or Runner Bean can be fed in moderation to tortoises. Most omnivorous species usually prefer meat over vegetation, most of them are actually omnivorous because they cant obtain enough meat so they resort to eating vegetation to survive. Phosphorus is what gives turtle shells a little flexibility, which is great because this little extra flexibility makes them more resistant to bites and other types of impact. The fact that they are not Other Vegetables: Carrots (both the orange vegetable and the green top), squash, and green beans. The amount of food to give your pet turtle depends on its species. Turtles need lots of foods with vitamin A, so choose plants like carrots, squash, bell peppers, and other red, orange, and yellow vegetables. And turtles are popular enough that people volunteered and rescued them during that infamous Texas blackout. The shrimp that turtles eat are often larger, and can be broken in half for smaller animals. Either way, provide safe basking spots, the right food for your turtle breed, a filter if you have an aquarium, and adequate swimming space. Other than that preferences in food depends on each turtle, just like us each turtle has its own likes and dislikes when it comes to food.