Sounds pretty. I love turtles. I bet he'd just love some nice succulent lotus tubers and maybe some waterlily stems and foliage. lol I honestly don't know but this is what I found online:
Food
While the species is highly herbivorous, river cooters will eat anything, plant or animal, dead or alive. Diet seems to be determined by available food items. While some writers feel that these turtles will not eat meat, predatory behavior has been observed. Although this animal cannot swallow out of water, it will leave the water to retrieve a tasty bug or worm, returning to the water to swallow. Cooters will also enthusiatically chase, kill and eat small fish. They have also been observed eating carrion found along the river's edge. River cooters have tooth-like cusps in the upper jaw, probably an adaptation to aid in eating leaves and fibrous vegetation. Their primary diet would include a wide variety of aquatic plants, and some terrestrial plants that grow near the water's edge. They will happily take fallen fruits as well. In captivity, any kind of plant will be eaten, and some "meats", too. Always keep calcium available in a separate form, such as a cuttlebone, so that the turtle can self-regulate calcium intake. Click for more general information about feeding turtles.

Karyn glad you googled it. John needs to take it back FAST roflmao Before you blame ME when you come back from your vacation and your yard is bare and you think I took it all roflmao

Lucy

Lol Lucy that is funny..I would get rid of it too... :)

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JUst the title made me laugh.... Lucy if she doesn't haul it back you best once she leaves...LOL

See I knew all the ones that would respond to my post, lol. Just what I was afraid of. Eat anything he can get his face near. He's gotta go.

We took him to the lake at City Park to be with the other turtles. Plenty there for him to eat, lol.

Here he is. He ran into his new home pretty quick, lol. Anyone know the name of the green weed looking stuff in the last pic?

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I don't know but it loks a bit like an evergreen pond weed that I have in one of my ponds. I got it from one of the ponds at a nearby park last season. What I have is also sold as an aquarium plant.

I thought Prince albert left you..What is he doing in this thread...Just kidding...He does look like a prince though...Turtles are kinda cute..

Lol, he was a cute little turtle and not mean at all. The green stuff is what I have in my pond for the fish to have shade until the other stuff starts growing but I have to take it out by the bucket fulls. It multiplies like crazy. The goldfish and koi are waking up and starting to move around finally.

Hey rosepedal. It's strange that you associated that turtle with me. When I was in Korea my best friend was called a turtle by the kids in the village. I was called a Mountain Toad.
Thanks for bringing back an old memory

princealbert