sammysue101
New Member
Thank you Tom! This information is great. Before we got them I spent lots of time on many many different websites and watched hundreds of videos on them and they were all contradicting. I will from now on go off of the information you provided. I really appreciate it. We had gone to the store and set up their entire enclosure before we got them and the breeder we got them from told us to get rid of the “forest floor” we had gotten and told us to use the pellet litter instead because and I quote ,” the moisture will cause them to get respiratory infections.” We used that for a few days then after further research ( I am constantly on the internet looking at new information / learning more about these guys) switched their substrate to organic soil and cypress mulch. I was also told to feed them romaine lettuce daily. I then was feeding them that and dandelion greens and collard greens. Yesterday I read I should grow their own grass so I ordered natures seed blend for tortoises. I think I will buy some grass pots in the mean time while I wait for this to come in and grow to introduce grass to them over their food as when I take them outside one of them will graze on grass and weeds in the yard but not the other.Great advice from SinLA, PollyAda and Zovick.
I would add that you are/were reading the wrong material. Start with this thread and look for the care sheet toward the bottom. It seems likely that you have found the wrong advice:
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