Bananas?
- Thread starter Waffle
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The old school of thought said that a desert tortoise should not be fed fruit more than 10% of his diet. I don't know if that has changed over the years, but I still abide by the rule of basically no fruit for desert type tortoises. That means Russians, Sulcata and the Western U.S. desert tortoises. I don't know about the other Mediterranean tortoises. Why don't you save the fruit such as bananas for a sometimes treat?
The reason for this rule (again, hearsay, not first hand knowledge) is that too much fruit (sugar) might cause a parasite bloom in a tortoise-system that is designed for weeds and grasses. However, I'll bet that a desert tortoise that comes upon a Prickly Pear cactus that has just dropped all its fruit won't stop at just one.
Yvonne
The reason for this rule (again, hearsay, not first hand knowledge) is that too much fruit (sugar) might cause a parasite bloom in a tortoise-system that is designed for weeds and grasses. However, I'll bet that a desert tortoise that comes upon a Prickly Pear cactus that has just dropped all its fruit won't stop at just one.
Yvonne
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