Diet

[haley200]

What can they eat?

 

[Jacqui]

Hi and welcome! What kind of tortoise are you talking about because different species eat different things.

 

[RedfootsRule]

It goes from fruits, mushrooms and worms to grass, weeds and flowers. The species your keeping is rather important .

 

[cemmons12]

Hmmmm, yeah, the kind of tortoise/turtle needs to be known to give any sort of answer here.

 

[haley200]

He's a Arizona tortoise

 

[Jacqui]

He's a Arizona tortoise

A desert tortoise?

 

[haley200]

Yeah I'm pretty sure

 

[Jacqui]

Is it the animal you have pictured next to your name? If so, that is a box turtle.

 

[haley200]

Yeah that's him. But he's a turtle not a tortoise?

 

[RedfootsRule]

Yes, thats a box turtle....Did you capture this turtle from the wild? May I ask how exactly he same to be in your possession?
As far as food goes...25% vegetables (carrots, acorn, butternut, yellow and green squash, mushrooms) 15% fruit (kiwi, mango, papaya, apple, grape, strawberry, blackberry, plum, peach, melons) and 10% leafy greens (turnips, collards, mustard, dandelions, etc.). The rest should be made up of protein, such as cooked turkey, worms of any kind, snails, slugs....

 

[haley200]

My grandpa gave it to my little brother for Christmas because he didn't want it anymore. I have no idea how he got it. But he's 98 so he defiantly didn't catch it

 

[Thalatte]

How is the cage set up?

 

[haley200]

This is his cage

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Oh I don't think that worked..

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I put it as my picture because I couldn't figurine out how to post a picture

 

[Thalatte]

Can you describe it a bit? What are the dimensions? What's the substrate? What kind of lighting is that?

 

[haley200]

So good news! We took him to this reptile place and they said it was a desert tortoise and that there usually mistaken for box turtles.

 

[Thalatte]

Can you post a better picture?

 

[haley200]

Yeah here's another one

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[Thalatte]

I am sorry but that isn't a desert tortoise. It looks more like a 3toed box turtle. Notice the "beak" as well as he red dots on his legs? Desert tortoises don't have those. Look comparison pic of a Sonoran desert tortoise.

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Look at your turtle/tortoise's back legs does he have only three toes/toenails/claws (whatever you want to call them)? Look at his under shell does it have a line that is flexible? Like the shell is in two pieces?

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

Just do a plain google search for desert tortoise. You will see what it looks like and you can compare.

 

[haley200]

That's how I know it's not a box turtle it doesn't have that hinge on the bottom and he doesn't go all the way in his shell

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And he has four toes

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I just put him in water and he went all the way into his shell like box turtles do. That's the first time I've seen him do that

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He has 5 front toes and 3 back toes I miscounted