I agree with DDavidson and Lusk, snapping turtles mostly eat sick, weak dying and dead fish. I have had two large ones in my pond for 25 years. I think smaller one is male and big one is female. I have seen them layered together. I see not young snappers in the pond. Mine must be territorial. Fish steal pellets from the nose of the turtles and turtles don't try and eat the stealer fish. The turtles do eat the dead animals such as dead birds, dead muskrats and dead fish in the pond and the dead food does not have to be freshly dead. Apparently 2 day old dead fish are just as savory.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 07/12/24 08:04 PM.
