I feed a varied diet to my torts but my exotic vet's recent patient made me think twice. The attached top photo shows the xray of urates on a sulcata that was fed a varied diet. The bottom photo shows the blockage is almost gone after a few weeks on all grass diet. My vet told me that the best diet for tortoises is grass. I am torn between professional advice and common knowledge that a varied diet is good....
The skeptic in me makes me think there are other underlying causes other than non-grass food. like dehydration, wrong P to Ca ratio, wrong husbandry, etc...but when i asked the vet what caused the urates the answer was do not feed anything but grass...
The skeptic in me makes me think there are other underlying causes other than non-grass food. like dehydration, wrong P to Ca ratio, wrong husbandry, etc...but when i asked the vet what caused the urates the answer was do not feed anything but grass...
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