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Man makes homemade popsicles for turtles and feeding frenzy gets over 50M views
The recipe is pretty simple but they're obviously in love with it. I had no idea turtles could move so fast.
Cherie Gozon
06.29.21

This YouTuber created the perfect popsicle recipe to feed his turtles.

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Kyle Naegeli, aka “The Fish Whisperer,” shares his fishing adventures, including feeding his pet fishes and turtles.

This video garnered 49 million views and counting!

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YouTube Screenshot|The Fish Whisperer

And who wouldn’t love watching this repeatedly? It’s so much fun to see how the turtles went crazy with Kyle’s popsicle. If you don’t have a pet turtle, this video is still entertaining to watch.

This might also encourage you to get one.

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Pixabay|Sandy Karreman

After all, pet turtles are relatively easier to feed. You can buy pellets, chunks, and sticks from pet stores, especially if they are a combination of vitamins and minerals. However, it is still best if you feed them fresh foods.

This can range from vegetables, flowers, greens, and protein.

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Worms, snails, and smaller fish are good sources of proteins. Turtles also eat leafy vegetables such as kale, lettuce, spinach, or fruits such as strawberries, bananas, kiwi, and tomatoes. Flowers like dandelions, carnations, and geraniums are excellent food sources, too.

Turtles are also fed less as they grow older.

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Pixabay|Arlin Mejia

An adult turtle only needs to be fed three to five times a week.

Baby turtles need to be fed twice a day.

If you’re providing them with commercial turtle food, it’s best to let them eat as much as possible in 20 minutes and remove any leftovers to prevent them from overfeeding.

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Pixabay|Abi Mansoor
What they eat depends on which type of turtle you have: boxed turtles, aquatic turtles, and wood turtles, to name a few.

Kyle’s pet turtles are the water type.

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Pixabay|Lucy Chibimundo

Most aquatic turtles are omnivores (they eat both meat and plants), and his popsicle recipe is a perfect combination of both.

The recipe is simple. All you need are the following:

  • Shad
  • Strawberries
  • Blueberries
  • Pond water

If you want to make one, you just must slice all of them into small pieces.

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YouTube Screenshot|The Fish Whisperer

Place them inside a popsicle mold.

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Fill it with pond water, then close the popsicle mold with the cover and stick.

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YouTube Screenshot|The Fish Whisperer

Freeze for at least four hours.

Then, it’s feeding time.

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YouTube Screenshot|The Fish Whisperer

You can see how Kyle’s turtles love the popsicles he made. The moment he took them out, they were so eager that they swam out of the water.

At first, the turtles approached one at a time.

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Then, as if hearing a rave review from the others, the rest of the turtles went to the surface to get a bite of their yummy treat.

He even managed to lure in two turtles at a time.

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And one of the craziest scenes is when some turtles had to push or shove the others back to the water just to get a taste of that popsicle.

We hope no one got hurt there.

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YouTube Screenshot|The Fish Whisperer

A feeding frenzy indeed.

All three popsicles that Kyle made were consumed in no time.

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YouTube Screenshot|The Fish Whisperer

Watch the full video below to see how fast these turtles move when fed their favorites!

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