Zoo Med Natural Aquatic Turtle Food, Hatchling Formula, 15-Ounce

This food dirtied my tank 3x as fast as other kinds of food. I have two 5 year old Red Eared Sliders and they are very good size, but I think the food is a little too big. They can eat it but half of it ends up at the bottom of the tank. Not only did it make my tank dirty but it made it smell very very very bad after one feeding. It is cheap but I will never buy it again.

Water gets gross fast- even with 7 inch aquatic turtles. I am going to switch back to the smaller pellet size.

I have a 7" turtle and this food is too big for him to eat whole, it is about 3/8" in diameter. He bites down on a piece and it breaks apart, with about a third of the food getting into his mouth. The rest breaks up into the water. He doesn't eat these pieces, but instead bites another piece and so on, creating a huge mess in the tank. I changed the water & cleaned the tank and using this food in literally 1 1/2 days I had to change the water again. The filter was clogged and the water was dirty.
My turtle seemed frustrated with trying to eat this food & he was always hungry, I can only guess because he couldn't get enough food into his mouth. I much prefer the very small kibble put out by Petco that I haven't been able to find on Amazon. It is a small kibble about 1/8" in diameter.
I've given this product 1 star because by the description when I bought it, this food is for turtles of the size I own and it clearly is much too large for my turtle. If the description...Read more