ZooMed Grassland Tortoise Food
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I feed my gopher tortoise exclusively grassland tortoise diet in the winter and it is outside for a good part of every day during the spring/summer/fall eating grass and weeds. It eats it (grassland tortoise diet) and its stools are always formed and I can see part of the grassland tortoise diet that wasn't digested in the stool. It seems pretty healthy and robust on this diet, I think it would be better that the Mazuri for my species of tortoise anyhow. I occasionally pick grass and weeds currently from outside to supplement with the occasional romaine lettuce treat. (once every few weeks not that often)
Why dont you feed him escarole, dandelions, chicory... during the winter, they are very easy to find at the grocery store in the winter and you could feed the grassland tortoise diet as a suplement?
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Wet the zoomed pellets and add a few drops of apple juice the smell works like the molasis in the mazuri diet, and they chow down! after a few days you can start giving it dryer and no apple juice or just some greens with it or what ever else you feed, and they go nuts... but i think the key is starting it asa "treat" to them, like oooo you want this i know you do...
I have had dozer my 5yo sulcata 2 days, he never had it before me... and he is eating it.. this morning i put it in went to get the purified water and apple juice to wet it, and came back he had a chuck hanging from his mouth liek "what? im hungy!"
he also eats hay and spring mix.
I have had dozer my 5yo sulcata 2 days, he never had it before me... and he is eating it.. this morning i put it in went to get the purified water and apple juice to wet it, and came back he had a chuck hanging from his mouth liek "what? im hungy!"
he also eats hay and spring mix.
Except that a redfoot tortoise really isn't considered to be a "grassland" tortoise. They go for more of the broad-leafed plants and weeds.
It's not true. Redfoots are as opportunistic as the next tortoise. They might show a preference for broad leaf plants but so do Leopards given the opportunity.
While the RF might not be considered a grassland tortoise it is very much so.
vickyb said:
While the RF might not be considered a grassland tortoise it is very much so.
emysemys said:
mea culpa...
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I got bored and compared the ingredients of Mazuri and Zoomeds. I compared the list with ZooMed's Forest diet.
ZooMed - This is what Zoomed had that Mazuri doesn't.
Suncured Timothy Hay, Fish Meal, Dried Papaya, Dried Mango, Escarole, Endive, saPaprika Extract, Dried Dandelion Greens, Sodium Bicarbonate, Soy Lecithin, Direct-Fed Microorganisms (Dried Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei, Bifidobacterium bifidum, Enterococcus faecium, and Aspergillus oryzae), , Dried Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Fermentation Solubles, Hydrated Sodium Calcium Aluminosilicate, Garlic Extract, Anise Extract, Chinese Cassia Bark Extract, Ginger Extract, Horseradish, Juniper Extract, Natural Flavoring, Yucca schidigera, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of stabilized Vitamin C), Rosemary Extract, Ascorbic Acid, Citric Acid, Silicon Dioxide, Niacin Supplement,
This is what Mazuri has that ZooMed doesn't
Ground corn. Ground oat, soy bean oil, salt, L-lysine, nicotinic acid, colbalt carbinate,
The items that they both had, I just crossed it off the list. Keep it mind this isn't exactly accurate. I cross off stuff that had similar name. Ex, Ground Soybean and Suncured Soybean. I considered them the same. Others were were different elements but purpose was both to provide Vit A, so I crossed those out as well. I think there were also stuff like zinc carbonate and zinc oxide, though I probably shouldn't but you get the idea of stuff I crossed out.
I'm starting to like what I see in the ZooMed pellets. I haven't compared it with the grassland diet, but I think the ingredients are almost the same. The forest had more since forest species have fruits in their pellets.
ZooMed - This is what Zoomed had that Mazuri doesn't.
Suncured Timothy Hay, Fish Meal, Dried Papaya, Dried Mango, Escarole, Endive, saPaprika Extract, Dried Dandelion Greens, Sodium Bicarbonate, Soy Lecithin, Direct-Fed Microorganisms (Dried Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei, Bifidobacterium bifidum, Enterococcus faecium, and Aspergillus oryzae), , Dried Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Fermentation Solubles, Hydrated Sodium Calcium Aluminosilicate, Garlic Extract, Anise Extract, Chinese Cassia Bark Extract, Ginger Extract, Horseradish, Juniper Extract, Natural Flavoring, Yucca schidigera, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of stabilized Vitamin C), Rosemary Extract, Ascorbic Acid, Citric Acid, Silicon Dioxide, Niacin Supplement,
This is what Mazuri has that ZooMed doesn't
Ground corn. Ground oat, soy bean oil, salt, L-lysine, nicotinic acid, colbalt carbinate,
The items that they both had, I just crossed it off the list. Keep it mind this isn't exactly accurate. I cross off stuff that had similar name. Ex, Ground Soybean and Suncured Soybean. I considered them the same. Others were were different elements but purpose was both to provide Vit A, so I crossed those out as well. I think there were also stuff like zinc carbonate and zinc oxide, though I probably shouldn't but you get the idea of stuff I crossed out.
I'm starting to like what I see in the ZooMed pellets. I haven't compared it with the grassland diet, but I think the ingredients are almost the same. The forest had more since forest species have fruits in their pellets.
Livingstone is the same, loves mazuri. I always soak it into a porridge consistency, he inhales it.
I have fed redfoots some of this before...mixed with little mazuri. I would only feed like once or twice a week though
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