my red foot loves mushrooms, she devors them and comes running for them when she knows i have them. i am assuming they are good for her, but i just wanted to make sure it was ok? or if there was a limit to how much she should be fed?
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OMG, mushrooms are ambrosia to tortoises. Even the Queen of the Picky Eaters, my Taco, loves her mushrooms and picks through her greens to get at them first. 
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Are they okay for all torts? Or just forest torts?
well thats certainly answered my qeustion, so is any mushroom good for them?
I only use regular white Crimini mushrooms. So, good question. As long as you don't feed them poisonous or hallucinogenic mushrooms, I'll bet it's OK. And I wouldn't spend a lot of money on exotic mushrooms when the common ones are well-liked.
I wonder if there's the dreaded oxalic acid in mushrooms? If so, that would mean feeding them only sometimes, not every day.
Anyone?
I wonder if there's the dreaded oxalic acid in mushrooms? If so, that would mean feeding them only sometimes, not every day.
Anyone?
littlefoot loves mushrooms too!
thanks everyone, this is awesome bec Ophelia runs to her food when she sees them
Mushrooms and fungi play a significant role in the diets of forest tortoises and box turtles. Wild-growing fungi are also rich in vitamin D- one of the few plants that have any at all.
There is nothing I can think of that would make them bad for other tortoises, although I am not up on their needs. Mushrooms in general have no oxalates- also not much calcium, fat, carbs, etc.
One interesting story- Native Americans in the New York area always considered box turtles poisonous to eat. It turns out that the mushrooms the turtles eat flavors their flesh with no ill effect to themselves.
There is nothing I can think of that would make them bad for other tortoises, although I am not up on their needs. Mushrooms in general have no oxalates- also not much calcium, fat, carbs, etc.
One interesting story- Native Americans in the New York area always considered box turtles poisonous to eat. It turns out that the mushrooms the turtles eat flavors their flesh with no ill effect to themselves.
All the tortoises I have kept love mushrooms: redfoots, leopards, sulcata, sri lankan stars, russians, radiateds, and burmese stars. They usually get whatever is left over from what we don't use for a dinner recipe.
In addition, mushrooms make up the staple of some tortoises' diets....usually some of the forest species, where mushrooms are more plentiful.
In addition, mushrooms make up the staple of some tortoises' diets....usually some of the forest species, where mushrooms are more plentiful.
Madkins007 said:
That's true...box turtles eat poisonous mushrooms w/ impunity, but the poison stays in their flesh, and many people have gotten deathly ill or died outright from eating box turtles...
Knew a guy in Arkansas who bragged that that was an old wive's tale...he had a very nice funeral.
So I read "mushrooms"? Aren't they poisonous? So I read more . . . and find out no . . . and I trust you all (bunch of jokesters, but you'd never lie). So I buy organic mushrooms and top everyones salad with them - OMG they all cleaned their plates like they were starving (they are not, trust me!). Even "Tex" our big Sulcata, who thinks everything on his plate should have color scarfed the mushrooms down. Note to self: add mushrooms to grocery list!
? So I read more . . . and find out no . . . and I trust you all (bunch of jokesters, but you'd never lie). So I buy organic mushrooms and top everyones salad with them - OMG they all cleaned their plates like they were starving (they are not, trust me!). Even "Tex" our big Sulcata, who thinks everything on his plate should have color scarfed the mushrooms down. Note to self: add mushrooms to grocery list!I would only feed a tortoise similar to what they get in the wild, so I don't feed my Russian mushroom or any veggies except for squash/pumpkin. I'd only feed a forest tort or boxie or similar mushrooms.
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Mushrooms is a mostly used for made a medicine thus it is a best for our body thus it have a many vitamins and proteins thus it is a many different types mushrooms .Mushrooms describes a series of mushroom gills, with or without feet, and the term is used more generally to describe the fleshy fruit of certain organs Ascomycota and woody or leathery fruiting bodies of some Basingstoke, depending on the context, the word.
tortoisenerd said:
So besides the squash/pumpkin, you feed russian weeds and broadleaf plants to your russian tortoise? If not russian weeds and broadleaf plants, what is similar to what they get in the wild? How do we know they wouldn't eat a mushroom in the wild? Almost any tortoise I have offered a mushroom to....eats it with gusto. I am not saying to feed mushrooms all the time....but every now and then as a treat.
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