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So I got calcium with d3 and one without but I don’t know when to give it to him. Like how many times a week would I give it to him and when should I give the calcium with and without d3? Help, thanks.
What size is your Russian tortoise and do you know the sex? What do you feed it?So I got calcium with d3 and one without but I don’t know when to give it to him. Like how many times a week would I give it to him and when should I give the calcium with and without d3? Help, thanks.
i live in the very cloudy PNW, so i bought calcium with the d3. i use it a couple of times a week sprinkled on their food in the months they are indoors, which is about 9 months a year. sometimes they won't eat the pieces that it is sprinkled on and i figure that is their way of self regulating.So I got calcium with d3 and one without but I don’t know when to give it to him. Like how many times a week would I give it to him and when should I give the calcium with and without d3? Help, thanks.
So for the sun I take him on walks everyday for 30 minutes to an hour but he does not live outside so I got with d3 to put on a little bit just in case and for winter months.I would refrain from calcium powder and focus more on calcium through the diet. Is there a specific reason you desire to include
Supplement instead of diet and natural sun exposure time?
He’s a boy and is a little bigger than my fist. He eats romance lettuce mustard greens food pellets and some days kale and I give him cantaloupe some times.What size is your Russian tortoise and do you know the sex? What do you feed it?
An adult male needs very little calcium supplementation. A small pinch once or twice a week mixed in with the grocery store greens is plenty.He’s a boy and is a little bigger than my fist. He eats romance lettuce mustard greens food pellets and some days kale and I give him cantaloupe some times.
Ok thanksAn adult male needs very little calcium supplementation. A small pinch once or twice a week mixed in with the grocery store greens is plenty.
He should never be eating fruit, and the grocery store greens should be a last resort if you can't find or grow anything else. He needs to be eating weeds and leaves, and in your climate he should live outdoors in a large secure enclosure year round.
Please read the diet section here and make some changes for the health of your tortoise:
The Best Way To Raise Any Temperate Species Of Tortoise
I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies and care for adults? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. What is...tortoiseforum.org
I do live in Florida so they put pesticides on the grasses and I don’t want him to eat them. Is there any really easy plants I can grow to give him. Also what’s like the best/ healthiest plant i can get him from the grocery store?An adult male needs very little calcium supplementation. A small pinch once or twice a week mixed in with the grocery store greens is plenty.
He should never be eating fruit, and the grocery store greens should be a last resort if you can't find or grow anything else. He needs to be eating weeds and leaves, and in your climate he should live outdoors in a large secure enclosure year round.
Please read the diet section here and make some changes for the health of your tortoise:
The Best Way To Raise Any Temperate Species Of Tortoise
I chose the title of this care sheet very carefully. Are there other ways to raise babies and care for adults? Yes. Yes there are, but those ways are not as good. What follows is the BEST way, according to 30 years of research and experimentation with hundreds of babies of many species. What is...tortoiseforum.org
Russian are not grass eaters, so that isn't a concern.I do live in Florida so they put pesticides on the grasses and I don’t want him to eat them. Is there any really easy plants I can grow to give him. Also what’s like the best/ healthiest plant i can get him from the grocery store?
Ok thanks 😊Russian are not grass eaters, so that isn't a concern.
From the store: endive, escarole, arugula.
Skip the text and just scroll down to the lists:
For Those Who Have a Young Sulcata...
Over and over I type up and answer diet questions and try to get people feeding the right stuff, but I find that the "norm" is grocery store food. Grocery store food is expensive, a hassle to obtain, and very low on the list of what is best for sulcatas. These tortoises are GRASS eaters. From...tortoiseforum.org