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Hello everyone, I’ve been wondering about what could be considered a normal growth rate on a sulcata… mine arrived to me like at 6 months and it has been with me for more than two years and though she has grown a lot I feel she is not growing as fast as other Sulcatas, and I’ll let you know why...

OK great thanks @KarenSoCal, @maggie3fan and @Tom for your answers and help... that relieves me to know that they are not bladder/kidney stones... as for adding more variety to the diet, what else do you think I can provide? any help would be appreciated I really want to give her lots of...

Hello Karen, thanks for the answer... I don't think they come in the greens I buy because every day when I fix her salad I take leaf by leaf and wash it and make sure it has no bugs or anything like soil... could it be provoked by minerals in the water? which I don't think we have that many...

Reading your entry I was thinking about my sulcata, I feed her mainly these: She normally eats grass or hay, Chinese cabbage (which she loves), escarole lettuce, romain lettuce, pumpkin, she loves radish greens (leaves) and I was also giving her some arugula lettuce (but then I was told it has...

Yvonne I have another question abusing your kindness, is the diet I am giving good? (according to what I wrote on my thread?) does any of those foods could provoke any kind of stone formation? what is your thought about arugula lettuce?

Thanks for your reply... However she lives inside and when she goes outside I am next to her during the whole time because I am always afraid she might eat something she shouldn't and I have searched on my backyard and I don't have stones/rocks with that pattern or coloring... (grey/black and...

I was reading this and have found in other threads recommendations to supplement with MinerAll, I was looking for it on Amazon and it says it is for insectivorous reptiles and amphibians, but as it is recommended here it shouldn't be a problem to give to a sulcata given that she is not an...

Hello all, I know this topic has been discussed several times but I wanted to give it a try and put some pictures for you owners with more experience to help me. I have had a sulcata tortoise for around 1 and half years already, she got here like in her first 6 months (I don't have her exact...

Thank you very much for your answer... I was just wondering when I say that Tortoise Table, but will see if I can try it... _i just don't want her to get sick o rdie... but if you have found that yours can eat it then I'll try it...

Thank you very much for this thorough explanation @RosemaryDW ... I just have a doubt from your message you told me that it is pickly lettuce form my first pictures but it was actually identified by my app as bitter lettuce, and the second one with the purplish leaves was the pickly lettuce...

Hello @RosemaryDW , I have some new pictures of the so-called "bitter lettuce" according to the app that recognizes plants. The following 3 pics are from the same plant that has grow a lot: Then the app also recognized this one as Lactuca virosa or bitter lettuce with a 70% of possibility...

Thank you Thank you very much, right now they are big, I will take a picture tomorrow in the daylight to show you...

Hello @TisMary, thanks again, loved the app, I just used it and my searches were right in all of them, the most compatibility are the ones I posted for example the bitter lettuce under Lactuca virosa, tropical chickweed (Drymaria cordata) so now I am almost possitive my guesses were right using...

As an update to my previous message I kept reading and I think I found the one weed I have the most is know as tropical chickweed (Drymaria cordata) and seems to be even safe for human consumption... but have not found anything regarding feedable to sulcatas or tortoises though chickweed in...

Hello, yes I think the cat's ears are safe, found more about them and looks that they are good... as for the bitter lettuce, prickly lettuce and even common sowthistle, if it is bitter lettuce (Lactuca virosa) looks very similar to the other ones I am giving, but I am not sure if they can be fed...