Can you list good flowers for leopard torts to eat. I am going to my brothers to steal some of his grass since his isn't treated and my friend has a natural garden she is willing to bring me clippings . Just want to make sure I don't poison him.
Try http://www.thetortoisetable.org.uk/site/tortoise_home_1.aspCan you list good flowers for leopard torts to eat. I am going to my brothers to steal some of his grass since his isn't treated and my friend has a natural garden she is willing to bring me clippings . Just want to make sure I don't poison him.
Somehow I had missed your question. I think any flower of nontoxic is good diet item for grazing tort. Dandelion, hibiscus, rose, pansy, marigold, snapdragon, calendula, dianthus, squash, zucchini, pumpkin blooms... maybe clovers... look around and see what you've got growing aroundCan you list good flowers for leopard torts to eat. I am going to my brothers to steal some of his grass since his isn't treated and my friend has a natural garden she is willing to bring me clippings . Just want to make sure I don't poison him.
Omg!!!! Your Baby is absolutely adorable!!!!!I completely agree on seperating them for now. My husband has agreed to us getting another hatchling in July hopefully after 3 months of quarantine (I'm going to get him/her from the same breeder so hopefully 3 months will be good before introducing the 3rd tort). We are working on a larger closed chamber enclosure where I can divide it into private sections and they still have adequate space to be okay. Here is this mornings observations. Sheldyn is definitely a Baby Bully! He hogged the food this morning again I had to be sure this is what was happening. I went ahead a soaked Sunni and then refreshed this mornings meal (Cantalope Green Leaf Lettuce Blueberries Mazuri Soaked in warm Coconut Water and Strawberries are Sunni's favs so I sprinkled sum on top just to get him/her going....) AND I got nibbles then no interest. Sunni did poop which I think looks consistent and regular for her. But because I'm a New Nervous Netty I ended up resoaking sum fresh Mazuri mixing with Strawberries and laying on Greenleaf because she is curious and will wonder near the lettuce. I then put the food and Sunni in a separate space turned off the lighting opened the blinds to let the natural light go into the enclosure... Temps were about 82 to 86 throughout and humidity above 90%... Sunni did eat a portion that made me feel that she is just being bratty BUT better safe than sorry so I will be keeping my eye out! Pics of this mornings ordeal below! LoL! My 1year old was my shadow this AM! He thinks he is my helper! NOT! Just a tripping hazard. I spilled rain water for saoking all over my dining room floor!View attachment 209167 View attachment 209168 View attachment 209169 View attachment 209170 View attachment 209171 View attachment 209172 View attachment 209173 View attachment 209174 View attachment 209175 View attachment 209176
Thank you! He is growing 2 fast! He started walking at 10 months and just gets into EVERYTHING! LolOmg!!!! Your Baby is absolutely adorable!!!!!
As lil toddlers should enjoy your little cuties before they get bigger, stinkier, mouthier....Thank you! He is growing 2 fast! He started walking at 10 months and just gets into EVERYTHING! Lol
I would! Chop things up and add soaked mazuri pellets. Now, remember that Mazuri IS NOT BAD for them so we don't havAt first you e to act like we's bribing toddler with candy to get few mites of food. You may want to start with more Mazuri/less greens, or 1/2&½, and then slowly start changing over. I feed Maxuri rotating with other brands of dry commercial tortoise pellets almost daily at breakfast, where it makes up for about ¼ of their feeding portion. My babies are 2 yrs old and i just weighted them today Shellie weighs bit over 3 lbs (approx 1.5kg) and Tucker is little over 2lbs (approx 1kg) and they are 8 and 7 " long carapace respectively, not big but both feel very solid when i pick them up, which tells me I must have done something right in feeding those 2 babies their first 2 yrs of life. My approach is similar to feeding a young child (do whatever it takes to get them to ingest some stuff that their growing body needs as building blocks) and/or principles of nutrition in recovering from major surgery or illness. It all takes time and lot of patience. Kids and animals typically don't like sudden changes so things need to be done gradually over period of time. Play with kinds of foods, consistency (chop, dice, blend even), colors (try adding flowers for visual/olfactory appeal). You are one step ahead already by knowing what your tortie's favorite is! Use it to your advantage. Keeping my fingers crossed for youSo hopefully someone here can help and I won't have to start a new thread. My soon to be 6 mo old Hermanns is really driving me crazy. A little over a month ago I'm gonna guess she started eating her mazuri. This was about the time I switched over to fresh weeds as they started growing outside. For a few days she wouldn't eat the greens then voila, she did. Now it seems all she wants to eat is her mazuri. She hardly touches her greens. When I got her in march she weighed 28g and now she's 30g. Should I be chopping up her greens with the mazuri? I'm afraid she'll only eat that and never touch her greens again?!
Lol so true as I am learning with my 10 yr old! Also would like to note that Sunni has gone back to eating vigorously and has been very active the last few days. Today was protein day and they had boiled shrimp which they LOVED and prickly pear cactus which they also seemed to enjoy very much! I'll continue to take note of what they like as I add variety and get their menu and schedule more panned out! Thanks again for this thread it was a major help!As lil toddlers should enjoy your little cuties before they get bigger, stinkier, mouthier....
Very very welcomeLol so true as I am learning with my 10 yr old! Also would like to note that Sunni has gone back to eating vigorously and has been very active the last few days. Today was protein day and they had boiled shrimp which they LOVED and prickly pear cactus which they also seemed to enjoy very much! I'll continue to take note of what they like as I add variety and get their menu and schedule more panned out! Thanks again for this thread it was a major help!
Thanks. For some reason I couldn't get on here yesterday, it just kept saying connecting to server. Anyway. I chopped up her greens with her mazuri yesterday and she didn't touch it. I'm just gonna keep it up everyday! This morning it was raining and I didn't have her stuff already picked and I was late and I've got a bunch of family stuff going on...so I put in some Belgian endive (grocery store crap) to tide her over til I could come home and pick her some stuff.. well, I've never seen her run so fast. Ugghh, she saw those grocery store greens and ran.I would! Chop things up and add soaked mazuri pellets. Now, remember that Mazuri IS NOT BAD for them so we don't havAt first you e to act like we's bribing toddler with candy to get few mites of food. You may want to start with more Mazuri/less greens, or 1/2&½, and then slowly start changing over. I feed Maxuri rotating with other brands of dry commercial tortoise pellets almost daily at breakfast, where it makes up for about ¼ of their feeding portion. My babies are 2 yrs old and i just weighted them today Shellie weighs bit over 3 lbs (approx 1.5kg) and Tucker is little over 2lbs (approx 1kg) and they are 8 and 7 " long carapace respectively, not big but both feel very solid when i pick them up, which tells me I must have done something right in feeding those 2 babies their first 2 yrs of life. My approach is similar to feeding a young child (do whatever it takes to get them to ingest some stuff that their growing body needs as building blocks) and/or principles of nutrition in recovering from major surgery or illness. It all takes time and lot of patience. Kids and animals typically don't like sudden changes so things need to be done gradually over period of time. Play with kinds of foods, consistency (chop, dice, blend even), colors (try adding flowers for visual/olfactory appeal). You are one step ahead already by knowing what your tortie's favorite is! Use it to your advantage. Keeping my fingers crossed for you