Help with leopard tortoise!!!!

[JMaiore14]

Yes I have the mazuri but he looks at it , smells it the turns right away. I also tried other grazing tortoise pellets and he does the same thing sniff sniff and walks away lol..And ok I did an exact measurement and he's 3 and a 1/4 inches from front of the shell to the back..

 

[yagyujubei]

Yes I have the mazuri but he looks at it , smells it the turns right away. I also tried other grazing tortoise pellets and he does the same thing sniff sniff and walks away lol..And ok I did an exact measurement and he's 3 and a 1/4 inches from front of the shell to the back..

Have you soaked the mazuri until soft? I have had great sucess with it.

 

[JMaiore14]

yeah i have tried that he tapped at it once. but ill keep trying because i have heard a lot of good stuff about it

 

[Fernando]

The leopard looks in really good shape I don't see much wrong with the picture. Good luck!

 

[JMaiore14]

That's great lol well I just want to say thanks to everyone on this forum who helped with such great advice I will Deff put up more posts and pics as his growth progresses thanks again

 

[romiso]

Hi everyone I finally rescued a leopard tortoise from my friend that I feel he has neglected for four years. He fed it nothing but romain lettuce and he has not grown a single centimeter since he was first purchased.He is only about 2 and a half inches long and I know they can reach almost a hundred Pounds. Well I have him now and want only the best for him. I built a pen outside where I have planted grazing tortoise grass seed mix and Bermuda grass(which he eats on and off all day long). Now I was just wondering that now he's is being given the proper diet and vitamins will he eventually start to grow.. If anyone has any advice t would be appreciated thank you

Hi Joe,
He definitely will grow much bigger and healthier than he is now.
I am from the NJ area too and I'm wondering where you purchased the grazing tortoise grass seed. I need to plant some soon , since my 15 year old leopard tortoise is not getting an adequate diet in my yard.

 

[JMaiore14]

I got the grass seed Mix from Carolinapetsupply.cOm it's amazing it grows in 2 days and my leopard loves it

 

[DocNezzy]

Try mixing the Mazuri with cactus. Mine will eat anything mixed with cactus!

 

[JMaiore14]

Wow so after I did some research on he cactus I found that it is an excellent diet for tortoises.. But my only concern is that my little guy won't be able to bite into it.. Has anyone fed small leopards cactus...?

 

[coreyc]

Wow so after I did some research on he cactus I found that it is an excellent diet for tortoises.. But my only concern is that my little guy won't be able to bite into it.. Has anyone fed small leopards cactus...?

All you have to do is chop it up into small pieces so they can bitein to it I feed it to my little guys /girls all the time

 

[DesertGrandma]

I take pics with my iPhone then email them to myself at my email address. Then I can save them to my computer. That enables me to download them to the site from my computer file.

 

[Yvonne G]

Hi Joe:

Wow! What a cute little tortoise! And your habitat looks great too. Can we see more pictures?

Sometimes for the really tiny tortoises you have to use a potato peeler and remove the hard outer layer on the cactus.

 

[JMaiore14]

hey everybody.. so its been a couple of months now and tank has been on mazuri pellets and his grasses and i must say i am in shock. tank has grown almost a half an inch all the way around and another half inch taller... his marginals are completely white and well enough talk let me just upload the photos lol

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[Mao Senpai]

Wow! He looks great! You've done an outstanding job!