feeding

Hello, folks. So yesterday I found this wasp in our house. I believe it is a bald-faced hornet. It appeared to be lethargic, so I let it go outside. Today I found it dead on our patio. It appeared to be crushed, and I suppose someone stepped on it. It was still moving its legs slowly, but...

Eating flowers make your poop smell good. LOL

In preparation for my upcoming tortoise (Eastern Hermann's hatchling) I've been studying plants in and around where I live in the East Midlands. I know we get dandelions and I've seen the odd common thistle, but I was wondering if anyone had any deeper knowledge of tortoise safe plants around my...

Hi, all! We have a 8 YR old sulcata who is is pretty good health right now. He mainly eats grass/weeds, we supplement his grazing with timothy hay and various (Tortoise Table approved) grocery produce, but we are trying to transition to growing this supplemental stuff. We have a potted...

This might be a really obvious question lol, because it seems like obviously there has to be some sort of nutrients in aquatic plants. My turtle is eating the plants like crazy, and I love it. I’m considering getting a whole separate aquarium just to grow plants in so I can put them in his tank...

I have a 2 year old sulcata tortoise. She/he has just come out of brumation and is eating all day every day. I'm beyond happy that she is happy and healthy, but with the prices of lettuce and other produce these days, she is eating the greens in my wallet as well. Is there a bulky produce I can...

Hello, Brand new owner of two 6 wks old Hermann Hatchlings. I know they sleep a lot and like to browse when they are awake. My question is should I wake them up to feed them and if so, what is a good feeding schedule for them? 3 times a day, 2 times a day? My biggest concern is they are tiny...

Hi, I feed original Muzuri + Calcium D3 + NutriBAC df every 3rd day - religiously - is that too much? My every 3rd morning regimen is as follows: I add 2 smidgen of the Calcium D3 + 2 smidgen of the NutriBAC df into a feeding cup. Add 25-30 of the original Muzuri pellets. I then fill the...

Hi guys! I am getting a Hermanns tortoise in August and wanted to make sure that these random plants in my garden are safe for him/her to eat. If you could help that would be awesome! (Also sorry if the camera quality sucks I took these on my computer so they aren't the best :/ ) Fyi I have...

Hello! I am a new Russian Tortoise owner and need help! My tortoise was shipped from Florida. I had done research for a year and got everything set up, both indoor (for sleeping quarter at night) and outdoor habitat in the garden as another cute decoration. So the tortoise arrived, and it...

So I just started my Tortoise on this new food called Arcadia Optimized52, she loved it for the first two days but has now gone off it Today I decided to try and trick her, I got all the Optimized weeds and flowers and wrapped them into bits of salad to create a salad burrito I don’t like...

I have 3 greek tortoises and 1 hermann's tortoise. How can I calculate how much food should I give per day? I searched everywhere and couldn't find a reliable feeding technique. Some people say they should eat a loose fist size and some say that you should put food on their plate then take it...

Hi all, I'm currently keeping my sub-adult male Hermann's in a wooden indoor enclosure. It's laid down with fine bark bedding for him to dig through, with some pieces of decorative wood jutting out from the floor. I keep his feeding dish full all the time. There's always veggies and grass in...

I have a baby Sulcata ~7 months old. It has 68mm shell's length, 81gr weight. My problem is it doesn't eat anything except Mazuri Tortoise Diet. When I got it in age 1 or 2 month it ate only Romaine lettuce. I have been trying to switch his habits to grass since February, no way. It started...

I don't really know what plant this is, looks like a sunflower, it looks pretty and I was curious to feed it to my one year old tort, but first I wanted to know if it's safe for her to eat before making a decision we both might regret, what do you guys think?

Hi all, I know that this is a fairly well discussed topic but I believe my case is a little different. During the winter I like to grow food from seed to feed my tortoises, as packaged vegetables aren’t that great. When I grow these I just put them on wet paper towel in a large tray and wait...

Has anyone worked on training a tortoise, Curious to hear if anyone has had success here is my story of my journey training my Russian tortoise named Yoshi. Yoshi is a 4 year rescue who loves to sleep in hoodie pockets, watch finding Nemo (he will not watch anything other then that), yoshi...

Hi! I recently adopted a russian tortoise, believed to be male, not sure how old. His name is Scooter, he isn’t very big. I’ve had him for a little over a month now, and some days I feel like I’m not feeding him enough. I usually give him a pretty big handful or two of food every day, sometimes...

So, some of you may know that I recently got a new lizard, and that it has been eating really (2-4 dubias a day, 4-6 mealworms) well up until recently, where it just stopped eating, barely eating 1 mealworm a day. We did call multiple vets, all of them are full and one still needs to get back to...

Hey, So I was wondering the correct amount to feed my baby tortoises. I understand the general rule of thumb, about as much as the size of their shell. However, I know some people do 2 starve days. Does this only relate to older tortoises and not baby ones? Thanks