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My tortoises that live outdoors will eat rocks sometimes if I neglect to keep a few cuttlebones in the enclosure.They ingest rocks and pebbles in thebwild, the important difference is that they eat higher fiber foods and are able to poop them out. I find pebbles in my tortoises' feces sometimes, surrounded by long fibers. E.g. they eat plantain weed and dead nettle and other high fiber weeds, even if they don't eat grass (sometimes mine do).
The natural sunshine is so good for them. Keep putting them outside, just maybe make sure the area doesn't have a lot of small pebbles.
South Florida "rocks" are mostly coral. A great source of calcium. Just not in the form of rocks!