Hi guys, here's bit of info for the new tort owners. This is just what has WORKED FOR ME! And all this is fairly in accordance with guidelines provided here and in Tortoise Library.I hesitated to try any commercial food bcs of the grain content in all of the ones I've seen here in Texas, but one of my babies was do little and not eating at all, that after about 2 wks of trying everything else I gave in and put in couple of Mazuri pellets in with his chopped greens. The breeder included some samples with the shipment of my babies. One of them was bit of Mazuri. I soaked it in warm water and drained excess, mashed it some, and omg! Little Tucker ATE!!!! This is what had made me lean towards using some dry food. I never want to watch another starving tort or any animal. It was horrible! These are the brands that I use in rotation (those are so tiny, at times I just sprinkle some on top of their salad and Tucker loves them!, the big pellets Mazuri and the Land Tortoise Food, are soaked until very soft. The Land Tort. Food takes much longer and much warmer water to soften. I either mixed it in the salad or put it on top. Tucker selectively eats those first. Another thing about feeding babies or finicky eaters that has helped me is chopping things up very finely, and when they were tiny hatchlings I would put things in baby blender and serve as puree. this was one of the try outs, when put things in separate piles: greens, fruit (papaya here, or cantaloupe), Mazuri, just to figure just what they like most. This knowledge comes handy with supplements. My babies love their protein so guess where their calcium goes?... chopped cactus look... not very appetizing here separate piles: greens, mazuri, cactus, cucumber, papayaall mixed up, fruit on top just to get things going, extra cactus on the side and always abundance of fresh green leaves available to much on . I went without calcium supplementing for 9 mnths. Noticed corelation of intake quantity with presence of supplement. Once I figured what to feed them to get Tucker to eat I figured that good nutritional variety in sufficient quantity will do better then sparse supplemented feedings. All has been great but over past couple of winter months we've had less outdoor time and I've noticed tiny "give" on pressing tail area of the carapace and mid plastron. So calcium without D3 is back on the menu for few weeks and daily sunning outside. The vet was confident the above measures would suffice. I'll be adding more "Pearly's feeding tips" as I find more pictures to post. Hope this helps some new worried tort mom or dad