Can you feed turtles( RES) lettuce and if you can how do u introduce it?

Answers:
of course you can. make sure its not too big for the turtle to eat and also try to just give me the leaf. just put the lettce in the water or a feeding area and if its interesting in it, it will eat it. keep in mind
Commercial diets
(Less than 25% of the diet)
-Commercial floating pellets or sticks for fish, reptiles, or turtles
Animal protein
(Less than 25% of the diet for adults)
-Live feeder fish (occasionally)
-Earthworms
-Finely chopped raw lean beef or beef heart
-Cooked chicken
-Snails
-Tubifex worms
-Mealworms
-Waxworms
-Pinkie mice
-Crickets
-Bloodworms
Vegetation
(50% or more of the diet)
-Collard greens
-Mustard greens
-Dandelions
-Carrots (shredded root and top)
-Squash
-Green beans
-Sweet potatoes
-Apples (shredded)
-Melon
-Berries
-Bananas
-Grapes
-Tomatoes
-Plums, peaches, nectarines

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Put it in its Cage, %26 Yes you can, =]
Good Luck.

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u sure can. they eat vegetables .. drop it in their cage.. if they don't eat it for a while then take it out.. my baby ddnt like it :(

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As far as I know, turtles love lettuce. I don't think introducing it will be a problem.. but they may need some more nutrients than just what's available in the lettuce. Ask your local pet store expert!
Good luck!

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No no and NO!!
Lettuce has absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever. You will end up starving your RES to death by feeding it lettuce. Even if you only give it occasionally. Lettuce is absolutely one of the worse things you can give any reptile!

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If all you're going to do is feed it lettuce, why not just stick the turtle in the freezer and save it from the suffering?

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just chop it into little peaces and put it in the tank