Anyone use this topper?

[Tortellini0000]

Anyone use this topper? Especially for us Canadians that don’t have many options.

 

[Tom]

Looks good on paper. The vitamin E and A is pretty high up on the ingredients list, but since this is just a topper added on and not used every day, I think it would be fine.

 

[Kapidolo Farms]

Anyone use this topper? Especially for us Canadians that don’t have many options.

It looks reasonable good. By reasonable good, I mean there are no alarming ingredients and they suggest to use it as a supplement. I don't agree with use it with every meal/day. There should always be a break in use of any food item - at least once a week. I feed many things daily in a variety, but no single thing is used everyday. Everything goes through some rotation.

Tortellini0000. you might consider any of the complete foods and just grind them for use, or use them as a supplement and not the whole ration for the day. Don't get 'sold' on a topper.​

I don't understand why they would not go organic, all those ingredients come in an organic form and/or are items that are not regulated for labeled as organic in a food product. I'm currenly budgeted out for testing more stuff that is 'out there' for tortoise food. But this will riase to the top of that list.

I've posted past negative results (means no bad stuff found) on tests of ZooMed Forest, Hikari Mulberrific, and Mazuri 'regular' as negative for -cieds. Another tested food was positive, no, I won't post that result.

The product of concern is owned by a business in Florida, there's a webpage. I'll buy some and have it tested. I'll get the test done on an unopened package - chain of custody and all. I'll only post negative results in a public venue.

Further I would suggest, even though the popular description is "topper" and not 'mixer'. you should mix it in with freshly rinse greens. The little moisture, even after salad spinner treatment, aids in getting stuff to stick and consumed, not a pile or uneaten stuff after the tortoise walks away from their food

Complete foods first came to market by ZooMed in 2008, then Mazuri in 2013. Before that was Kay Booth's use of chicken layer crumbles (I don't know about dog or cat food history). Although an early ITTS journal regarding radiated breeing indicated dog food was use - if memory serves me?

Now there is a growing crowd of 'complete foods' by many manufactures that are colored or brown balls and even more toppers, as powders and even a salad dressing liquid. I think ZooMed's topper was suspicoulsy close to following Tyler's Tortoise Supply 'topper' fist sales of that product. ZooMed may have already had it in a development pipeline(?) or just followed Tyler's lead. Now there are many. NONE are listed as organic.

Tortoises are long lived, consider using organic as much as possible.

 

[TylerStewart]

I think ZooMed's topper was suspicoulsy close to following Tyler's Tortoise Supply 'topper' fist sales of that product. ZooMed may have already had it in a development pipeline(?) or just followed Tyler's lead. Now there are many. NONE are listed as organic.

Tortoises are long lived, consider using organic as much as possible.

We've been making our Herbal Hay since something like 2011 or 2012 with very little changes, ZooMed didn't have it in the pipeline back then. It's all or almost all organic sourced, but you can't really call it that without being certified organic, so we just don't make that claim.