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Aheimert48

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My Baby Sulcatas really loves mustard greens and turnip greens. So he eats that all of the time. I give him the Mazuri small tortoise food pellets made softer with water and he won’t touch it really. I still use the calcium powder twice a week on whatever I feed him those days. Am I hurting him by only giving him those greens? I’m really worried. I mean the cute little guy has the greenest mouth from the lettuce. Haha. Please give me suggestions. New to the whole tortoise thing.
 

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My Baby Sulcatas really loves mustard greens and turnip greens. So he eats that all of the time. I give him the Mazuri small tortoise food pellets made softer with water and he won’t touch it really. I still use the calcium powder twice a week on whatever I feed him those days. Am I hurting him by only giving him those greens? I’m really worried. I mean the cute little guy has the greenest mouth from the lettuce. Haha. Please give me suggestions. New to the whole tortoise thing.

He really does need a more diverse diet.. try mixing in some different grass and weeds with his greens to get him used to it.
 

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Greenest mouth huh? Good thing they don't have teeth. lol
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My Baby Sulcatas really loves mustard greens and turnip greens. So he eats that all of the time. I give him the Mazuri small tortoise food pellets made softer with water and he won’t touch it really. I still use the calcium powder twice a week on whatever I feed him those days. Am I hurting him by only giving him those greens? I’m really worried. I mean the cute little guy has the greenest mouth from the lettuce. Haha. Please give me suggestions. New to the whole tortoise thing.
Hello and welcome. Yes, it will eventually do harm if he only eats those two things. Neither of those things should be fed as staples. Both are good foods as part of a wide variety, but not as main daily food items. If you must use grocery store foods, favor endive ad escarole as your staples, but you also need to add in some grass, weeds, flowers, and succulents. Here is a sulcata food thread:
https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/for-those-who-have-a-young-sulcata.76744/

And here is the correct care for baby sulcatas:
https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/beginner-mistakes.45180/
https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/how-to-raise-a-healthy-sulcata-or-leopard-version-2-0.79895/
 

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I always mix his favourite food with something he doesn't like and a make a salad of it and he eats it...
 

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