Baby River Turtles
Here’s what you need to know: These are Macquarie River Turtles, we have lots of babies. Their life expectancy in captivity is 20-30 years, some go more. Small now, but will grow to about 20-30cm (size of dinner plate). They need feeding daily for the first year and this reduces after that, eventually at once to twice a week. A mixed diet of vegetables, turtle pellets, worms, crayfish, fish, etc. is ideal. They love aquatic plants, so it is an ongoing replacement of these as you can, as they