Vitamin calcium

[Kimie]

How often do you give in vitamin and calcium on their food. I have heard they must have calcium every time on their food and vitamin once a month.

 

[iAmCentrochelys sulcata]

Nope, they don’t need it. You could add it if you would like. I sometimes add eggshells but that’s about it.

 

[bonsai tortoise]

Depends on their total diet. If you’re feeding a well balanced diet with a lot of good weeds and they live outdoors they shouldn’t need it. I will supplement my adults in the winter when they are indoors and the food is limited. They’re eating mostly a variety of produce, Mazuri, and dried grasses in the cold months so i might supplement every other week. But in summer when they’re outdoors they never get it. For hatchlings it’s different. I will supplement maybe twice a week for the first two months. After that they usually go outside so I don’t worry about it. If they are indoors, with a limited diet and they’re in a growth phase I supplement. I also supplement if they are indoors and gravid. In all cases though it’s maybe once or twice a week. Never daily. Best thing to do, in my experience, is to keep them outdoors as much as possible and feed them a wide variety of foods and as much natural weeds and grasses as possible. In that case you’ll never need to supplement.

 

[Kimie]

Depends on their total diet. If you’re feeding a well balanced diet with a lot of good weeds and they live outdoors they shouldn’t need it. I will supplement my adults in the winter when they are indoors and the food is limited. They’re eating mostly a variety of produce, Mazuri, and dried grasses in the cold months so i might supplement every other week. But in summer when they’re outdoors they never get it. For hatchlings it’s different. I will supplement maybe twice a week for the first two months. After that they usually go outside so I don’t worry about it. If they are indoors, with a limited diet and they’re in a growth phase I supplement. I also supplement if they are indoors and gravid. In all cases though it’s maybe once or twice a week. Never daily. Best thing to do, in my experience, is to keep them outdoors as much as possible and feed them a wide variety of foods and as much natural weeds and grasses as possible. In that case you’ll never need to supplement.

It's for my Kleinmanns and they go indoors. I mean they are about 3 years old

 

[Kimie]

Can you see the sex of Egyptian which is from late 2018

http://s1249.photobucket.com/user/kema2300/library/Frogs

www.tortoiseforum.org

 

[bonsai tortoise]

It's for my Kleinmanns and they go indoors. I mean they are about 3 years old

I have never kept Egyptian but would assume if you fed it the right foods and made sure you give it a good variety it’s better than supplementing on a regular basis. There’s no substitute for keeping a tortoise outdoors when the weather is favorable. I know some have had great success keeping them outdoors even for a more sensitive species like that. Having said that supplementing once in a while is not a bad thing. But I would defer to others who have more experience with that species.

 

[Kimie]

I have never kept Egyptian but would assume if you fed it the right foods and made sure you give it a good variety it’s better than supplementing on a regular basis. There’s no substitute for keeping a tortoise outdoors when the weather is favorable. I know some have had great success keeping them outdoors even for a more sensitive species like that. Having said that supplementing once in a while is not a bad thing. But I would defer to others who have more experience with that species.

I'll never keep them out, I live in Eur and it's way too cold here.
I think I maby can give too much calcium if they get it every time on the food.
I try to give them good healthy diet and variety