Hello Guys and Gals,
So as some of you know may know, I gave my beloved California Desert Tortoise "Fernando" for adoption (Due to his size and limited space). He went to an awesome TFO member (Candy). Anyways I am looking to purchase or adopt a Leopard Tortoise Hatchling. I want to raise this tortoise to have very little to no pyramiding. There is nothing more beautiful than a smooth shell. I was reading the ingridients in Mazuri and It contains Ground CORN. I've learned through the years, that CORN is just a filler and has no nutritional value. They feed pigs CORN to make grow big and fat. Is Mazuri making tortoises grow too fast? Ive seen many tortoises on Mazuri diet with alot of pyramiding. Below are the ingridients:
Ground soybean hulls, ground corn, ground oats, dehulled soybean meal, wheat middlings, cane molasses, brewers' dried yeast, soybean oil, wheat germ, dehydrated alfalfa meal, dicalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, salt, DL-methionine, choline chioride, menadione dimethylpyrimidinol bisulfite, pyri- doxine hydrochloride, D-alpha tocopheryl acetate, cholecalciferol, biotin, calcium pantothenate, ethoxyquin (a preservative), vitamin A acetate, riboflavin, L-lysine, nicotinicacid, thiamine mononitrate, cyanocobalamin, folic acid, manganous oxide, zinc oxide, ferrous carbonate, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, calcium iodate, cobalt carbonate, sodium selenite. 30% roughage products ground soybean hulls.
So as some of you know may know, I gave my beloved California Desert Tortoise "Fernando" for adoption (Due to his size and limited space). He went to an awesome TFO member (Candy). Anyways I am looking to purchase or adopt a Leopard Tortoise Hatchling. I want to raise this tortoise to have very little to no pyramiding. There is nothing more beautiful than a smooth shell. I was reading the ingridients in Mazuri and It contains Ground CORN. I've learned through the years, that CORN is just a filler and has no nutritional value. They feed pigs CORN to make grow big and fat. Is Mazuri making tortoises grow too fast? Ive seen many tortoises on Mazuri diet with alot of pyramiding. Below are the ingridients:
Ground soybean hulls, ground corn, ground oats, dehulled soybean meal, wheat middlings, cane molasses, brewers' dried yeast, soybean oil, wheat germ, dehydrated alfalfa meal, dicalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, salt, DL-methionine, choline chioride, menadione dimethylpyrimidinol bisulfite, pyri- doxine hydrochloride, D-alpha tocopheryl acetate, cholecalciferol, biotin, calcium pantothenate, ethoxyquin (a preservative), vitamin A acetate, riboflavin, L-lysine, nicotinicacid, thiamine mononitrate, cyanocobalamin, folic acid, manganous oxide, zinc oxide, ferrous carbonate, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, calcium iodate, cobalt carbonate, sodium selenite. 30% roughage products ground soybean hulls.