Nightcrawlers?

[Luis Taveras0]

Is it safe if I feed a night crawler worm to my hatchling box turtle?

 

[dmmj]

I feed them to my water turtles and my box turtles all of the time. Do you have any specific concerns?

 

[Luis Taveras0]

I feed them to my water turtles and my box turtles all of the time. Do you have any specific concerns?

my concern is that if it can still eat the night crawler as a hatchling my mother says that it's too big for her apparently

 

[dmmj]

They will buy it into smaller pieces so that's not a concern it will be gruesome but effective

 

[cmacusa3]

You can cut it up a little and he will still eat it. My 3 will eat medium sized worms right now. The smallest one is the size of a nickel and will go after large worms and eat until it's full. Yesterday I put in a Dubai about half his size in the enclosure and he destroyed it. Pretty funny site to see him give chase.

 

[JoesMum]

Can someone show me a picture of a night-crawler please? We don't have them here in the UK... or if we do then they're called something different.

 

[cmacusa3]

Can someone show me a picture of a night-crawler please? We don't have them here in the UK... or if we do then they're called something different.

just a worm

https://www.bing.com/images/search?...&pq=nightcrawler worm&sc=8-17&sp=-1&sk=&ghc=1

 

[Yvonne G]

Can someone show me a picture of a night-crawler please? We don't have them here in the UK... or if we do then they're called something different.

It's a huge, fat worm living in more temperate climates that comes out of the ground at night and crawls across the top of the ground.

My sister cuts them up for the baby turtles.

 

[Loohan]

What is the best stuff to feed them if one's interest is loading them with good nutrition for boxies? I am about to receive a batch of European nightcrawlers. I have prepped some moist peat moss with some calcium powder. I read that they thrive on cornmeal. I can get organic cornmeal but prefer to load them up with frozen-thawed wild greens etc. Will this work well if i also add cornmeal?

 

[Anyfoot]

Can someone show me a picture of a night-crawler please? We don't have them here in the UK... or if we do then they're called something different.

Think they are what we call lobworms. Big fat juicy worms, ideal for catching chub on the river Trent at Newark in peg 57. Ok went overboard with the info. Lol.
Think they are lobworms.