What turtles dont eat fish?

[paul112]

Me and my friends were fairly successful at keeping small soft shell turtles up to about 6" shell with large community fish as they are too slow 90% of the time to catch them

Suppose it depends on the species, but most softies are pretty heavy on the carnivore diet, and so they are adapted to hunt down fish and aquatic insects and such. My Chinese is very fast, and can (and has) taken down fish the same size, if not larger than it. Definately wouldn't recommend putting them with fish.

Paul

 

[Aquai]

Suppose it depends on the species, but most softies are pretty heavy on the carnivore diet, and so they are adapted to hunt down fish and aquatic insects and such. My Chinese is very fast, and can (and has) taken down fish the same size, if not larger than it. Definately wouldn't recommend putting them with fish.

Paul

Yuh once they get to a decent size, i definetly wouldn't recommend it, as i say up to about 5 / 6 " they seemed to be alright, but after that i think their taste buds mature, we removed them when we started seeing signs of active hunting basically...

 

[paul112]

Well I was speaking with only the experience of Chinese Softies, and having my little guy take down a 4" molly when he was just 2-3". Ate it all too, greedy bugger. Maybe mines just extreme

Paul