Reagan
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I've noticed lately that my 7mo Eastern Hermann's has green on her mouth, what is causing this and is this usual?!?
Tortoise has green on its mouth?!?
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Has to be something that ur Herrmann's is chowing down on. What types of greens are you feeding?
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Yes, I'd imagine it's nothing to worry about unless you never feed your tortoise anything green. Then there might be a problem!
Reagan
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I'm feeding her Kale, Romaine lettuce, cucumber, Zuchini.
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Reagan
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If there is any other greens I should feed let me know
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It sounds like all the food is great except the romaine lettuce. I personally have never fed my tortoise romaine lettuce because I've heard a lot of bad things about it. However, some may argue the same thing with cucumber and zuchinni, but my tortoise has never had a problem with either of those foods! Your baby tortoise is adorable!!!!!!!! And I love the little green mouth.
Reagan
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It sounds like all the food is great except the romaine lettuce. I personally have never fed my tortoise romaine lettuce because I've heard a lot of bad things about it. However, some may argue the same thing with cucumber and zuchinni, but my tortoise has never had a problem with either of those foods! Your baby tortoise is adorable!!!!!!!! And I love the little green mouth.
Thank you! Lately I haven't been feeding the romaine, so thanks for letting me know!
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It sounds like all the food is great except the romaine lettuce. I personally have never fed my tortoise romaine lettuce because I've heard a lot of bad things about it. However, some may argue the same thing with cucumber and zuchinni, but my tortoise has never had a problem with either of those foods! Your baby tortoise is adorable!!!!!!!! And I love the little green mouth.
What have you heard that's bad about Romaine?
Reagan
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Not quite it's a little more than that. You can look at the photo and you'll be able to tell.
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I heard something about it being not nutritious and never to feed it to my Russian on a regular basis. But now I'm looking it up and everything says the opposite. @Reagan, I could be wrong! I know someone's told me that it wasn't good, but perhaps they were wrong! @cmac3 , do you feed your tort's romaine? How do they react?
Yes I do feed it on occasion, And I really vary their diet. I don't see anything wrong with Romaine.
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Iceberg lettuce is the lettuce you shouldn't feed!
that was for ginger sorry cmac.
I too feed Romaine on occasion. As lettuces go, it's one of the better ones. However, it shouldn't be the main part of the diet as it lacks nutrients and fibre.
Iceberg is all water and should be avoided completely.
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But now I can on a desk top computer.
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Cool! Thanks everyone, I think I'm going to feed my tort some romaine today!! Hear that, @Reagan? Romaine is okay! Sorry for misleading you!
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I buy romaine, green leaf, endive, escarole, kale and broccoli rabi.
It's all lettuce to me.
It's all lettuce to me.
TerrapinStation
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hehehe reminds me of Bruce Bogtrotter from Matilda....... Just the tortoise version!
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Ginger just had her first taste of Romaine lettuce. She loved it.
