[jesusislord_514]

Oh wow... lots of bad information being offered here. I'm going to bet that you got a baby red-eared slider (they're sort of the standard pet store turtle) and that the shop owners told you that it wouldn't grow much bigger. Sadly, that's the biggest lie in the pet trade. Female red-eared sliders can get up to a foot long (males are a little smaller).Sliders (like most turtles) are meat-eaters, though they will probably take plant material too. You should try starting your little guys out on feeder guppies (you can get them at a pet store) and earthworms. Once they get accustomed to living the captive life, start offering them pellets. (There are a variety of different pellet foods you can get that offer a pretty complete array of vitamins and such that they need.)If your turtle is a female slider, you're going to eventually need a tank that's over 100 gallons, but, in the meantime, you can make do with something smaller. (It takes years for them to reach full size, and this is how the pet stores get away with lying about it. Usually the turtles aren't well-cared-for, and they die long before they get big.)For an inch-long turtle, a 10-gallon tank is fine. As the turtle gets bigger, try to keep the size ratio of tank-to-turtle about the same as it was when he was an inch long in a 10-gallon. (Hopefully that makes sense.)You can't give your turtles too much water. These guys live in huge lakes in the wild. They will, however, need some sort of place to come out of the water and bask, and they need a UV light to bask under. (It helps them with shedding.)