Sulcata Feeding Variety

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MikeCCD

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I just wanted to double check and see if my what I feeding is good to go.

Monday- Mazuri mixed in with wheat grass or orchard grass into a "meatball"
Tuesday-Dark greens (collard, turnip, mustard and bok choy mix)
Wednesday- Timothy hay and Orchard grass hay
Thursday- Repcal pellets, ZooMed grassland pellets mixed with orchard grass hay into a "meatball"
Friday- Mazuri mixed with Orchard grass hay
Saturday- Spring Mix
Sunday- Spring mix

Currently growing bermuda and fescue to add into the diet. Any suggestions?
Also greens are sprinkled with calcium w/ D3

Thanks!
 

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Looks okay to me. You could add some spineless opuntia cactus pads. Grape, mulberry and hibiscus leaves. There are a whole host of good weeds. My weeds grow best in the winter when we get rain. I use dandelion, sow thistle, filaree, wild mustard, wild garlic/onion, mallow, hawksbit, and a few others that I can never remember the names of. I prefer real green foods to dry hays and pellets most of the time, but I use Mazuri too. My adults have Bermuda and orchard grass hay available, and they eat it, but I also feed them a lot of fresh grass, weeds and leaves too.

Where are you? How big is your sulcata?
 

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I'm located in Raleigh, NC and my tort is about 2.5" (shell) and 60 grams
 

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Does anyone know where you can buy Mazuri tortoise food without buying it online? I've checked several pets stores and can't find it anywhere.
 

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MVonSluis said:
Does anyone know where you can buy Mazuri tortoise food without buying it online? I've checked several pets stores and can't find it anywhere.

If you have a Feedstore around they can order it or you.
 

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Blake m said:
MVonSluis said:
Does anyone know where you can buy Mazuri tortoise food without buying it online? I've checked several pets stores and can't find it anywhere.

If you have a Feedstore around they can order it or you.

Thanks, I will check on the net, this one pet store sold me on something they said was tortoise chow, it attracted ants so I tossed it out.
 

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MVonSluis said:
Blake m said:
MVonSluis said:
Does anyone know where you can buy Mazuri tortoise food without buying it online? I've checked several pets stores and can't find it anywhere.

If you have a Feedstore around they can order it or you.

Thanks, I will check on the net, this one pet store sold me on something they said was tortoise chow, it attracted ants so I tossed it out.

http://www.mazuri.com/retailerlocator.aspx
 

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jaizei said:
MVonSluis said:
Blake m said:
MVonSluis said:
Does anyone know where you can buy Mazuri tortoise food without buying it online? I've checked several pets stores and can't find it anywhere.

If you have a Feedstore around they can order it or you.

Thanks, I will check on the net, this one pet store sold me on something they said was tortoise chow, it attracted ants so I tossed it out.

http://www.mazuri.com/retailerlocator.aspx

Thank you very much :)
 

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MVonSluis said:
Blake m said:
MVonSluis said:
Does anyone know where you can buy Mazuri tortoise food without buying it online? I've checked several pets stores and can't find it anywhere.

If you have a Feedstore around they can order it or you.

Thanks, I will check on the net, this one pet store sold me on something they said was tortoise chow, it attracted ants so I tossed it out.
Mazuri might attract ants also. It has molases as an ingredient. I have been told that this is done to hold it together as a pellet and is common in the pet food industry. I feed it to my tortoise and have not had a major problem, but those ants will find any food that is left out.
 
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