I'm in Indo, and a staple for us is talas (Colocasia esculenta). It grows beside every paddy field (check for herbicide/pesticide use first) and the torts go nuts for it.
My Russian loves kangkong as well but she’s not a grass eater so I don’t have to worry about it much.hello there I lived in Indonesia, I had tried mustard green, Katuk, and bok choy. my baby sulcata didn't want to eat. I don't know why my tortoise loves eating kangkong so much. I made a trick when feeding by hand, making kangkong(ipomoea reptans) sandwich with katuk or grass/weeds
What kind of tortoises do you have?I'm in Indo, and a staple for us is talas (Colocasia esculenta). It grows beside every paddy field (check for herbicide/pesticide use first) and the torts go nuts for it.
Manouria Emys EmysWhat kind of tortoises do you have?
I see. From my limited understanding taro is a staple for for manouria so I suppose it’s not the worst thing if they don’t like the kangkung. It’s pretty good stir fried in my opinion but I’m sure not everyone feels the same.Manouria Emys Emys
I have tried kangkung repeatedly to no avail. I'm going off it myself as it's all stalk once cooked, maybe theyre jumping on the bandwagon.
Here it's available everywhere and I was a big fan. Then I reacted positively to genjer and my partner has been cooking that for me all the time, with kangkung falling to the wayside. It is all leaf and no stalk, so kangkung feels like a lot of work by comparison.I see. From my limited understanding taro is a staple for for manouria so I suppose it’s not the worst thing if they don’t like the kangkung. It’s pretty good stir fried in my opinion but I’m sure not everyone feels the same.
That’s great, thank you.Incidentally Genjer (Limnocharis flava) and the similar Common water hyacinth (Eceng gondok) are both safe to feed and grow rampantly in SEA, so should perhaps be on this list. They are non native and highly invasive though, so should only be taken from clean, responsible sources.
I'm afraid I don't have familiarity with grasses, as I don't feed a grass eater. If you don't get an answer here you might try posting it in the Sulcata specific forum.Sorry for replying old thread, my Sulcata lives in my garden with tons of axonopus c grass and he seems to be eating it non stop, is it safe or what should I do about it?