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I have an Antakyan Greek tortoise and I usually feed him fruit and veggies like tomatoes,carrots,apples,pepper,kale,romaine luttuce stuff like that is there any different interesting foods he can eat other than that.
 

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Greek tortoises should be offered dark, leafy greens, weeds and grasses. Opuntia cactus would be good too.
 

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emysemys said:
Greek tortoises should be offered dark, leafy greens, weeds and grasses. Opuntia cactus would be good too.

when you mean weeds and grasses do you mean I can go pull it out of my front yard and feed it to him.
 

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Yes, but only if your folks don't use pesticides and fertilizers on it. Dandelions, fillaree, clover...all that stuff is good tortoise food.
 

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emysemys said:
Yes, but only if your folks don't use pesticides and fertilizers on it. Dandelions, fillaree, clover...all that stuff is good tortoise food.

ok thats good info thank you.
 
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