Hello all! I'm rather new to this site and tortoises in general, but have done a lot of my research on this site and had a couple questions that I haven't been able to find elsewhere. I got my tortoise, Geode, on the 18th of August. At first he was quite timid, but quickly warmed up to his habitat, diet, and me, and everything seemed fine. He also became a lot more active.
I soaked him quiet often during his first week, as I read a few threads suggesting, and started feeding him a mix of chopped kale, mustard greens, collared greens, and turnip greens? (I think it was turnip greens, but I don't recall at the moment). Recently, he's been pooping a lot more frequently and it's been in his habitat as opposed to while bathing, as well as being more of a cow pie-consistency as opposed to the more leafy-green looking stool he was creating before.
Is this because of his change of diet between the pet store and what I'm feeding him, or is there something wrong that I should change or do? I believe the temps are all right, 90-95 degrees on the warm side and 74-75 degrees on the cool side, with a slate on the warm side that sometimes reaches closer to 100 degrees, if that is relevant.
And another question: as my local store is a rather significant distance from me and storing a large amount of different leafy greens can be difficult, I looked into alternatives and read that feeding him one type of veggie for one week, then changing the veggie for the next week, and so on would be varied enough. For example, one week he'd get only kale, and the next only collared greens, and then only mustard greens, etc. Is this correct, or do I need to continue mixing different greens for every feeding?
Thank you all for your input!
I soaked him quiet often during his first week, as I read a few threads suggesting, and started feeding him a mix of chopped kale, mustard greens, collared greens, and turnip greens? (I think it was turnip greens, but I don't recall at the moment). Recently, he's been pooping a lot more frequently and it's been in his habitat as opposed to while bathing, as well as being more of a cow pie-consistency as opposed to the more leafy-green looking stool he was creating before.
Is this because of his change of diet between the pet store and what I'm feeding him, or is there something wrong that I should change or do? I believe the temps are all right, 90-95 degrees on the warm side and 74-75 degrees on the cool side, with a slate on the warm side that sometimes reaches closer to 100 degrees, if that is relevant.
And another question: as my local store is a rather significant distance from me and storing a large amount of different leafy greens can be difficult, I looked into alternatives and read that feeding him one type of veggie for one week, then changing the veggie for the next week, and so on would be varied enough. For example, one week he'd get only kale, and the next only collared greens, and then only mustard greens, etc. Is this correct, or do I need to continue mixing different greens for every feeding?
Thank you all for your input!