It is always hard to get baby hatchling turtles to start eating vitamin enriched foods, and some tiny live foods simply aren't available. I tried this food because of the ingredients being very close to their natural foods - and they LOVE it! They gobble it up even before they completely absorb their yolk sac, which is very very rare. It takes away so much worry of bringing up tiny baby turtles from eggs to healthy robust hatchlings!