What does a snapping turtle eat?

Answer 1

Baby snappers eat bugs, small fish, worms, lettuce, or just about anything they can fit in their mouths, so be careful where you keep them!

Well I had a baby snapping turtle and if you found him in a habitat then you should truly leave him if you care for him, but if you found him in a strange place alone then you should contact your local wildlife sanctuary they may take him. They usually eat the things above but if yours does not seem to eat like mine get him to the sanctuary FAST! Or force feed him because mine would not eat and it died the next day.

Answer 2

I had a snapping turtle and I fed it worms that you can buy at any discount food store. I fed him that and he was completely fine.

One other thing, go to chelydra.org and check out the forums. You can find all the info you need on snappers there.

Anything it can fit into it's mouth that moves, as well as a lot of things that don't move. Like most baby turtles, a baby snapper prefers live food. I picked one up from the middle of a road in my neighborhood a couple days ago. He is tiny, probably hatched last summer or fall. I put him in an aquarium with some gravel and about an inch of water and threw in a couple small earthworms and he ate them right away. As they get older they'll scavenge just about anything, but they love worms, tadpoles, frogs, small fish, and about any insect they find in front of them.

I have raised them for six years and fed mine earthworms leaf worms grubs and cut up leaches. Small black tadpoles and small fish, when they are young I have also fed them bologna. They also will eat pinky mice when they get old enough. The thing to note about snapping turtles is that they are carrion eaters, and scavengers so if you don't mind the mess they will work on the same fish for a few days if it's to big to eat in one sitting.

I just found my baby snapping turtle and i put him in a tank but don't put any tank rocks or fake plants because when there a baby if the get hungry they'll eat what ever he can get. I feed them earth worms minnows, and when they get older you can feed frogs to them, pink mice too.But don't worry if he doesn't finish it in one meal.

I feed my snapping turtle chunk cat food, and he eats aquarium plants and guppies too but he was a little slow to catch the guppies at first and was fun to watch him try! but cat food is the best thing

I have a baby snapper. He is one year old. he eats so much. is that normal? He is so fat but healthy i have his tank like a clean swamp real nice he loves crickets, raw chop meat and turtle shrimp what do you think?

i found a baby snapper have no idea how old it is very small (about the size of a quarter) i put it in a ten gallon tank with a little pond looking thing with gravel and rocks. im not sure what to feed it, it ate these pellets i got at the local pet store but it stopped. right now im trying lettuce and next im gonna try fish. (guppies)

The other day i was walking down a street in my neighborhhod and I found 9 baby snapping turtles. I intend to keep one but i think I will bring the others to a shelter or something. I will by them some worms , but i have only had them since yesterday, so for now its just bologna. I only have 2 plastic tubawairs for them for right now. But, hey atleast I saved their lives. I am not sure how old they are, but theye are about the size of a quarter and still have shells that are alittle squishy.

I found a wee little snapper, but I don't know how old it is. it still has its egg tooth... Anyway, I've been trying lettuce and bread, partially from an experience I had four summers ago(I was ten) in Florida where there was a huge snapping turtle and I dropped my slice of bread I was feeding the birds.... It stared at it for a second and then..... I didn't know turtles could move THAT fast!!! Anyway, i think I'll try next what you guys all said!

My grandfather found a little snapper turtle on his step and brought it inside. He gave it to us and we had no clue how to take care of it. We fed him a turtle food stick. We think he ate it because it is gone. We also read on this web sight that we should try to feed him guppies. Right now he is only 3 inches long. He moves very fast so we think he can catch the live guppies.

I found my cute little snapper 5 days ago and i fed it little pieces of bread. He loved it! My snapper is about the size of a half dollar. He is so cute! I put him in a reptile shelter cage with a rock and he loves it I can't wait to see him grow!!

My cute little snapper's name is woodchip because i found him lying under a woodchip!! I found my cute little snapper 5 days ago and i fed it little pieces of bread. He loved it! I don't know how old he is but he is about the size of a half dollar. He is so cute! I put him in a reptile shelter cage with a rock and he loves it I can't wait to see him grow!! HE IS AWESOME AND I LOVE HIM!!!

I found a baby snapping turtle in my pond.It is about the size of a quater.My friend and I are taking care of it.We feed it fish flakes and plants.

I have formed a club called "Save A Turtle".If you find a turtle in a street, you have to put it in a safe place,but if you find a baby turtle in a street, you have raise it,or you have to give it to me to raise.I found a baby snapp- ing turtle,but it was in my dad's pond.

Raw meat and vegetables, but they are also fond of fingers, so feed them carefully.

Pet stores also carry food for water turtles that you can use. do not get land turtle food.

my mom found a baby snapping turtle and gave it to me about a year and a half ago, he is very fast, he loves grapes and minnows, but try to avoid feeding them gold fish. you can also try raw meat, cooked meat, earth worms, meal worms, grubs, basically any insect. or if you dont have alot of time to buy sorts of food for him/her then after you eat dinner give them alittle bit of you're left over meat and vegetables.

I just found a turtle a couple days ago and i put lettuce in its tank and it did not eat it so im gona go to the store and buy some earth worms to see if it will eat them.

Answer 3

ANSWER

Fish is the primary diet, but anything that can be eaten is fair game. Most enjoy different types of fish, veggies, and the like.

snapping turtles are omnivores. they eat celery,baby chickens,lettuce,worms

Answer 4

What I have my wild baby snapping turtle eat is...Turtle pellets, canned tuna, frozen fish (Never give it live fish or non frozen meat because it will get worms and it is $90 to get them out!), they perfer live food BUT becareful, earth worms or minos, cat food (canned dog food also works too), bread, and some lettuce too.

o mines mostly eat raw fish choped in pieces de boned raw chicken raw beek raw fish fish caught out side you can give it raw fish because in the wild they eat dead raw fish

Answer 5

Insects, tadpoles, guppies, slugs (favorite), and worms. Anything that will fit in its mouth or it can chomp to bits. The very newborn turtles (2 weeks or younger) have a yoke sac on their bellies that can sustain them. It will eat once or twice a day after the sac is gone.

Answer 6

worms, small fish, turtle food, small shrimp, small snails

Answer 7

An alligator snapping turtle would eat mostly small fish, and raw meat.

Answer 8

worms lettus and other veggies

Answer 9

Worms, and pieces of shrimp.

Answer 10

Worms and shrimp