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I'm a new proud owner of a two month hold sulcata hatchling, and have been lurking on these forums the past couple days learning as much as I can.
I wanted to ask if you guys think my recipe is a good staple diet for my sulcata.
I dump the following into food processor:
1. a handful of pre-soaked mazuri
2. a handful of pre-soaked Zoomed grassland tortoise food
3. a handful of spring mix lettuce (no spinach)
4. 1/2 a pad of prickly pair cactus. The cactus' slime adds "stickiness" to the mix and prevents all the ingredients from separating (and keeps the sulcata from being able to cherry pick the bits it prefers).
5. a pinch of calcium/vitamin D powder.
I finely chop/mince everything in the food processor, and then portion it out into an ice tray for freezing. Then I can pop out a cube each day.
Hopefully this diet covers the bases, and provides a good balance of nutrition and fiber. The grasses are covered with the Zoomed, a little protein from the Mazuri to help with neonatal growth, calcium and vitamin C from the cactus, palatability from the spring mix, and further prevent calcium deficiency with the powder...
What do you guys think?
Is this okay as the daily diet? My Sulcata seems to love it, and I feel like I have enough variety here, but I'm new to all of this.
I wanted to ask if you guys think my recipe is a good staple diet for my sulcata.
I dump the following into food processor:
1. a handful of pre-soaked mazuri
2. a handful of pre-soaked Zoomed grassland tortoise food
3. a handful of spring mix lettuce (no spinach)
4. 1/2 a pad of prickly pair cactus. The cactus' slime adds "stickiness" to the mix and prevents all the ingredients from separating (and keeps the sulcata from being able to cherry pick the bits it prefers).
5. a pinch of calcium/vitamin D powder.
I finely chop/mince everything in the food processor, and then portion it out into an ice tray for freezing. Then I can pop out a cube each day.
Hopefully this diet covers the bases, and provides a good balance of nutrition and fiber. The grasses are covered with the Zoomed, a little protein from the Mazuri to help with neonatal growth, calcium and vitamin C from the cactus, palatability from the spring mix, and further prevent calcium deficiency with the powder...
What do you guys think?
Is this okay as the daily diet? My Sulcata seems to love it, and I feel like I have enough variety here, but I'm new to all of this.