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Thank you for your suggestion. I did try this, soaked pellets or smearing mango (absolute favorite) to greens but the little critter carefully pick and choose baby-food-like pellets and mango from greens. I also tried fine chop the greens and mix it with mango or softened pellets and the...

one more question please, is once a month enough to give animal protein?

which part of boiled egg I should offer? the white or the yellow or both?

Thats great to know, is it ok to give beef / pork / pork & beef organs? I cook my dog pork and beef so it will be very convenience if I can take a bit from my dog and give to my RF..

ok so I guess I sort of figure out how to handle this situation: yes, with tough love. I group my feeding menu into two, his / her favorite (fruit, flower, pellet, cuttlebone) and non-favorite (greens). The idea is, on the day he get his favorite he will eat everything happily, on the non...

On day 2 stopping fruits / pellets and just offering greens, baby RF eating the greens (not super enthusiastic about it tho hahahaha) This is harder for me than the baby RF :D

Thank you so much for your answers, I guess its time to build second enclosure then, better safe than sorry 😅 One more question, is this apply to all tortoise species?

Hi everyone, Junior tortoise keeper here looking for advice 😅 I have one 7 cm (2.7”) RF (Red-Footed Tortoise), and it’s been a month since I adopted him/her. Just today, someone gave me a 5 cm (1.9”) RF. I’ve been watching and learning a lot about baby RF care from YouTube, and I always see...

Thank you so much for all of your great informations, I'll gradually do the tough love approach, hopefully he will eat some greens : ) Temps and Humidity are good, I live in Island of Bali we have tropical humid climate here similar to where they from.

Hi Everyone, I'm new to tortoise keeping. I have a baby Redfoot that's about 7-8 cm and super cute : ) I offer my baby Redfoot various mixed salads every day, but he/she never seems interested in eating any greens (kale, mulberry leaves, hibiscus leaves) and only wants to eat fruits and...