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Since having my Russian tortoise Tori living with me in my apartment (not at my parents' place) I've been keeping track of everything a lot better. I fed her romaine lettuce and collard greens her first week or so (she had eaten both regularly in the past) and the past week has been green leaf lettuce and kale. I have been feeding her every other day and it's been going fine. I've been soaking her every other day as well for about 20 minutes in the sink with warm water. She excretes in the water every time. I also dust the food with tetrafauna reptocal calcium d3 and multivit supplements plus repcal tortoise food pellets (looks like fruity pebbles) that I ground up into a powder. This week I noticed her urates are kind of drier with some hard pieces in them. Which do you think is the most probable cause? the kale, too much calcium supplement, too much pellet food (corn based), not enough soaking, anything else you can think of...?
Should I completely stop giving the calcium with d3 and tortoise food pellets (corn based fruity pebbles looking stuff)? I already placed a cuttlebone in the enclosure (though I've yet to see her nibble it).
Should I completely stop giving the calcium with d3 and tortoise food pellets (corn based fruity pebbles looking stuff)? I already placed a cuttlebone in the enclosure (though I've yet to see her nibble it).