Cuttle Bone and/or Calcium Powder?

PlutoTestudo

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Just a simple question. If I keep a cuttlefish bone in the tortoise enclosure do I need to use calcium powder?
 

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Ditto what Rue said. Do both.

What species? What size and age?
 

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Ditto what Rue said. Do both.

What species? What size and age?

I am planning on getting Testudo Hermanni Hermanni, I am going to wait for next years hatchlings on Hermanni Haven.
 

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Just a quick consideration on calcium. Calcium Carbonate is the most readily available (in the digestive track) form of calcium. Tums are an excellent source and readily available for a reasonable price and can substitute for cuttle bone.

Cuttle bone has other minerals in it as well, so Tums are not a replacement, but a handy alternative.

For the ingredient readers https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/archives/fdaDrugInfo.cfm?archiveid=37265
 

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