Randa Ward
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Hello and welcome.
As you have seen, smaller ones usually do not like to eat the dry grass hay. Once your baby gets about 12 to 14 inches, you can begin to try to reintroduce the dry grass again. I find that it helps if you cut it into small pieces, soak it in some warm water for an hour, and then mix it in with some of your tortoises favorite other food items. If you start with a very small amount of the dry grass at first and gradually increase the amount over time, your tort will eventually eat the dry grass hay all by itself. This process will take time and no need to get started just yet.
All the other food items you mentioned sound very very good. They can eat any of the types of aloe, but some of them don't seem to care too much for it. You can offer it and see what happens.
Thank you so much I will try some this afternoon!