That is something I hadn’t thought of. Their food is served on a plate to them, but they do end up dragging it through the sand and they like to bury themselves in the sand as well.
No visible bite marks on her, no swelling. But maybe lots of ant bites would hurt them?? I am just so upset with myself as the day before when she wasn't eating I thought, maybe I should take her to the vet but as she was so active I thought i'd leave it another day.... next day it was too late...
They get the local lettuce, a plant they call bread here (weird, i know) (i guess a bit like bok choy), mange tout (not the snow pea kind, its more like a viney leafy plant) and chinese cabbage. Occasionally they get pumpkin leaves and flowers, they would eat the hibiscus leaves and flowers...
Yes, she got sick so quickly. Even when she went off her food, she was herself otherwise, active and moving around. The only plants in their pen are hibiscus plants, grass and a palm tree. The one that died sleeps in the grass, whereas the other one sleeps in the cave, with the sandy floor. So...
The tortoises are at our self catering apartments. We have a sign in the apartments asking guests not to feed them unless they give the food to us first, so its possible someone fed them but I haven't seen anything unusual in their pen. And the other one is perfectly fine and they eat the same food.
Yes we think now maybe we have been giving too much fruit. I have a mango trees which has just been recently dropping hundreds of mangos so perhaps they have had more than usual lately.
They rarely have apple. We actually thought this might have been one the 5 year old choked on so if we give...
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They live outside in a painted concrete block pen. They have a sandy area, a rainforest area with grass floor and hibiscus plants. They have a granite cave to go in and a water pond that is cleaned and refilled every one to 2 days.
We feed them a variety of...