I have worked with the sea turtles for about a year at one of our state aquariums. They are very easy to care for and easy to keep clean. We fed them shrimp breaded in dried blue/green algae. You have to hand feed them and they are not very smart. They will swim to the surface and open their mouth. You just drop the shrimp in and hope they close their mouth in time. This is where the animals lack intelligence. Half the time the animals will take so long to realize the shrimp is in their mouth that it will float out and sink. This present a danger to the person feeding them. They will not go get the food, you have to retrieve it. They have very sharp beaks and a lot of bite pressure. If your finger gets near their mouth, it could be gone. They are cute little animals and take a while to grow. However, federal law protects them from the average person. I am not sure what the fine is for harrassing, injuring or killing a sea turtle, but it use to be $10,000 per turtle. A single turtle nest holds thousands of eggs, each egg is considered under law as one turtle. Therefore, going near a turtle nest is very costly.