daniellenc
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Skurt NEVER touches his cuttlebone and I was wondering if anyone had tried these:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003UC9DDU/?tag=exoticpetnetw-20
He was eating his mulch! I ordered the Repashy herbavor supplement today to be sure. Currently he gets reptical calcium with D3 but hates it and has cuttlebone at all times. The past 2 months now that weeds are plentiful he’s decided he doesn’t like real food so I’m on a tough love diet. It goes like this: here’s your weeds eat or starve. Hasta, Lilac leaves, rose of Sharon leaves, dandelion flowers and leaves, clover, plantain, testudo seed mix, wild violet flowers and leaves.....You get the idea. He’s chosen cypress mulch lol. So I’ll try this on his weeds but so far I’m caving on fruit twice a week or red pepper but WEEDS! Until he goes back to his prewinter self there is no Mazuri or grocery store greens.I read in other posts where you feed your torts Mazuri. It contains a good amount of calcium carbonate. With cuttle bone, which is another source of CaCO3., RFs will only eat it if they need it. My torts get powdered calcium carbonate supplement from Jul. to Dec., egg laying season. They don’t like it but they like food more. Just plain calcium carbonate from a health food store is fine for outside RFs as UV from sunlight allows them to metabolize CaCO3. Inside, you need the UV lights.
He was eating his mulch! I ordered the Repashy herbavor supplement today to be sure. Currently he gets reptical calcium with D3 but hates it and has cuttlebone at all times. The past 2 months now that weeds are plentiful he’s decided he doesn’t like real food so I’m on a tough love diet. It goes like this: here’s your weeds eat or starve. Hasta, Lilac leaves, rose of Sharon leaves, dandelion flowers and leaves, clover, plantain, testudo seed mix, wild violet flowers and leaves.....You get the idea. He’s chosen cypress mulch lol. So I’ll try this on his weeds but so far I’m caving on fruit twice a week or red pepper but WEEDS! Until he goes back to his prewinter self there is no Mazuri or grocery store greens.
No he stands in front of his weeds for 20 minutes NOT eating and goes back to bed. He’ll eat radicchio and chicories store bought. Arugula but nothing hearty anymore. If you remember he hated Mazuri for a long time. Once he liked it and winter came when I relied on my store he thought spicy mix was it with Mazuri and fruit. Protein once a month. I don’t have grandkids yet. But my teens eat most anything. I was the mom who served your dinner for breakfast lolI don’t want to be mean but...Skurt seems to be acting like my grandson, a spoiled brat which is OK as long as I’m the one doing the spoiling. Does he look at you and smirk when he takes a bit of mulch?
I saw thisSkurt NEVER touches his cuttlebone and I was wondering if anyone had tried these:https://www.amazon.com/Penn-Plax®-Banana-Cuttlebone-Mineral-2-Pack/dp/B003UC9DDU/ref=sr_1_12?rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1527691622&sr=8-12&keywords=cuttlebone&refinements=p_85:2470955011
My guy gets lots of high calcium foods daily but won’t chew his cuttlebone and walks away from greens with the most minuscule of calcium dusting. Using the Repashy now and he will relent after a night and eat his greens with that so I think we’re good.Cactus and turnip greens are high in calcium. I don’t dust them when I feed. It’s a good additive if your tortoise doesn’t like any calcium supplements.
My guy gets lots of high calcium foods daily but won’t chew his cuttlebone and walks away from greens with the most minuscule of calcium dusting. Using the Repashy now and he will relent after a night and eat his greens with that so I think we’re good.