Not eating leaves

georgeandbessy

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Hi my 13 year old Hermann tortoises refuses to eat any leaves. I've tried everything. Mixing it with his favourite food, giving him a mixture of weeds and leaves and grating cucumber on the weeds but nothing will work. He won't eat any leaves or weeds. I must have tried 20 different types but nothing works. All I can get him to eat us fruit and vegetables. Help!!
 

Yvonne G

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What kind of leaves are you offering?

...and just a note of explanation - a tortoise can only eat what you offer it. If you stop offering fruit and vegetables, he can't eat them. A tortoise won't starve himself. Offer only edible weeds and plants and stop offering fruit and vegetables. He will eventually eat. But please be very sure what you offer him is edible.
 

turdle yerdle

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My tortoise would refuse to eat spring mix so I adapted to his liking and never gave it to him again, and one faithful day I tried again and he loved it.
 

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