food and diet

Really enjoyed todays meal! Kale, hibiscus leaves, arugula, mazuri LS pellets, and a small cactus bloom

Greetings, I want to know What plants I can have in a garden that my sulcatas will be able to munch on. The idea is that the tortoise will be out and able to feast on the plants with no troubles or dangers. Keep in mind the garden will be in a tropical Central American Garden. The only plant I...

Hey guys, I wanted to know what supplements I can give my 2 year old tortoise?

Hi my name is Henry my friend bought a sulcata tortoise about 2 years ago he moved away and decided to give him to me his name is Carlos. I don’t know too much about him so I have been reading constantly about how to raise him. I have been feeding him all the greens I can buy going from lettuce...

Hello all, I am a newbie. I am inheriting a tortoise in a few weeks. I have been preparing for him over the last 3 months (getting enclosure, making sure the garden is secure etc). Now I have a greenhouse, I am going to try to grow him some food. I have ordered a seed packet with these in...

Hello community!! I'm looking at doing a garden project full of edible plants and flowers for a Hermann tortoise I want to get it right and full of varieties. She loves her strawberries so I will be adding them but I don't know about edible flowers please help

Hello, I haven't seen this asked previously and ginseng isn't listed on tortoise table or elsewhere, are the leaves tortoise safe? I have several around. They're ginseng ficus retusa. Eastern Hermann tortoise in question:

Hey gang I have a 4/5 month old baby sulcata and I have pellets, timmy hay and also kale but my tort seems to only be interested in the kale. it wont eat anything else. Is this guide good or are there better guides out there...

I have a new Russian & I live in upstate NY. Can anyone glimpse these 6 (labeled with numbers..click each pic for clear photo) pictures & tell me if these are safe for Oogway to eat or not. I’m sure it’s been asked a ton but I just want to make sure lil dude eats right & appreciate any...

what is yall opinions on feeding dandelions found growing outside as its getting warm now they are growing everywhere and i was thinking of picking a few washing them and feeding them to my RF, i havent proceeded to do it yet as ino there could be all sorts of things on them plants, but what if...

My Russian boy Flash was hungry, and my dad decided to get my mom roses when he got home from work earlier. She decided to take a few of the rose petals and feed them to him as a treat, but I was a little hesitant and I looked up if they could eat roses. I told her right away that they shouldn’t...

My husband was walking the dogs and found a sulcata tortoise on the sidewalk. He seems to be eating fine. Greens, grass and soaked pellet. I have him right now in a laundry basket with heat light and heating pad. I just ordered him a house. I was wondering whats the best substrate and humidifier...

Beans got to work chowing down on the dried food from yesterday before I could get up to grab him some new food this morning, but he also had left pee/urate. I use a large terracotta saucer for feeding so it soaked in quite a bit, although it was still quite easy to clean. He's only done this a...

There is moss growing in my garden, and I sometimes let my leopard tortoise roam around there to bask under the sun and eat some weeds. And every time when it sees moss, it would nibble on them. When I see this, I always pick it up and put him/her somewhere else because I'm scared the moss might...

Hello, I found cactus fig and checked tortoise table but they only have cactus, and there are different kinds. I have a greek (tunisian to be specific) and I was wondering if she could eat this? If so how do I prepare it?

Hi I am new here so I don't know much about it.I am bit of worried about my baby tortoise he poops a lot. And colour of poop is greenish. anyone please tell it's a health problem or not?

Hello! I just brought my Russian Tortoise home today. I’m feeling pretty confident about how his enclosure is looking so far, but I have found some conflicting information on a few topics: 1. I have a heat lamp as well as a UVB lamp. Currently I only have a heat lamp that emits light as well. I...

Hi All we have in the last 24hours unexpectedly inherited this beautiful girl. She hasn’t had the best living conditions so we want to make that right for her future so would therefore appreciate any help/advice from those who know rather than the conflicting advice I seem to be getting from...

I have a Hermanns tortoise and I am trying to give him a better diet. I am in the Sandy/Salt Lake City area and am wondering if anyone knows of a local place that I can get him grown food from? I want to use grocery stores as little as I can but I'm just not sure where else to go that won't have...

Hello, I have had a few issues with my tortoise and I am unsure how best to go forward. (he is about 3 and a half years old and is a Hermans tortoise. At the start of 2018 he was 37g but now we are at 706g. Gender is still unknown.) I got him a few years ago not long after he had been hatched...