Feeding Turtles

[dtocher]

Here's my situation. My ex-girlfriend and I got into herps at about the same time... except for the fact that when she was a kid, she had pet turtles. The tiny, illegal red-ears you get in China town. She loved her turtles, but gave them to a friend who set a cool habitat for them. She got two snakes, and felt she left the world of turtles.

One of her neices (about 10, I think), wanted a pair of turtles for X-mas. My ex's dad got her some, but got a "deal" where instead of two turtles, he got 8. Turns out the neice really only wanted 2. This man asked my ex (his daughter) if she wanted the extra six, and she said no... but she asked me, and I had an extra aquarium lying around. She said her dad would have let them die, had someone not taken them.

They didn't eat for the first few weeks I had them (live or pellets). I got a water heater in there... and now they pound the pellets like no tomorrow. But, they still don't go for the small mealworms. Often times, the mealworms will roll off rocks and die before they get a chance to be food. Any suggestions? I'll try and put a pic of my tank up later today.

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