Red-eared Pond Slider Turtle
Young turtles are mostly carnivorous, eating snails, insects and small fish. As turtles mature they gradually switch over to vegetarian diet, dining on filamentous algae and aquatic vegetation. It is a common myth that turtles will wipe out a fish population when, in fact, they are an important part of aquatic ecosystems in Oklahoma in addition to being important an “natural” control of aquatic vegetation.
The Red-eared pond slider is almost exclusively aquatic. It rarely ventures out of the water except to lay its eggs or to migrate to a new body of water during droughts.
Red-eared Pond Slider Turtle
Young turtles are mostly carnivorous, eating snails, insects and small fish. As turtles mature they gradually switch over to vegetarian diet, dining on filamentous algae and aquatic vegetation. It is a common myth that turtles will wipe out a fish population when, in fact, they are an important part of aquatic ecosystems in Oklahoma in addition to being important an “natural” control of aquatic vegetation.
The Red-eared pond slider is almost exclusively aquatic. It rarely ventures out of the water except to lay its eggs or to migrate to a new body of water during droughts.