@Tom - so I laid off on the calcium powder and for a week while I was waiting for the miner-All to arrive he barely pooped any substrate – actually it was only a couple of tiny pieces. I started him on the miner-All on Friday and did a second sprinkle this morning on his food and he pooped up...
I wish that was the case – but the substrate definitely is coming out of his little bum. The really big ones are enrobed in poop which probably makes it a lot easier to go through that little digestive system.
Yes, he is obsessed with Mazuri but I give him the juvenile one since the LS seemed really big for him. I actually wondered if the little pellets that have fallen through the substrate is what is causing him to eat the orchid bark as he digs trying to find those tiny pieces😳
I use the fine grade orchid bark from Ace Hardware. He gets a variety of grains – his favorite is dandelion greens but he also gets romaine lettuce, escarole, endive, Green leaf, butter lettuce... during the spring when the weeds were abundant, I was giving him mallow, sow thistle , milk...
Hello - my two year old Hermann poops orchid bark almost daily. I put his food in his terracotta saucer, but he walks through it and drags it around, and I'm guessing when he eats the pieces in the enclosure, he ends up picking up and swallowing the substrate. I'm amazed at how big some of...
Hello – I noticed these wild greens growing on a recent hike and can't find any information online if they are safe for tortoises to eat… My iphone identifies them as fiesta flowers or philostoma racemosum.
Can anyone tell me? Thank you!
Hi - my Hermann tortoise Mowgli is a little over one year old and wants to stay buried in his orchid bark substrate or in his corner behind the plant all day. He is not that interested in food, but he does eat a little bit each day. He does a very good poop each day when I soak him, but won't...