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My Basic diet, (not all the painful details) includes lots of greens I get from the grocery store.
The basic are Romain, (Escarole, Radicchio, Frisse as "Santa Barbara Mix), mulberry, and hibiscus. To these greens I add cut fresh or wetted dry grass. A frequent green rotated in is Arugula aka rocket.
I also rotate in and out all of these found at the local grocery store. The price was blocked for the concern of one of the people working there -> H-mart.
I can also get lots of lemon grass which the tortoises like, but right now I grow my own. I can buy one pound blocks of frozen lemon grass, as might be used in soups, I've not tried that out yet for the tortoises.
I add nutrient rich supplements as well, but for the greens this is working well. The primaries, Romaine and Santa Barbara mix, are handy and very inexpensive when bought in bulk. The others are mixed in as available, and to not give opportunity to stubborn tortoises described by the phrase "My tortoise will only eat ..."
I add the grass in the amount of "as much as will stick" to whatever other greens are offered. Funny, they for the most part don't eat the live grasses in the enclosures, but chow down on it in the salad.
Will
The basic are Romain, (Escarole, Radicchio, Frisse as "Santa Barbara Mix), mulberry, and hibiscus. To these greens I add cut fresh or wetted dry grass. A frequent green rotated in is Arugula aka rocket.
I also rotate in and out all of these found at the local grocery store. The price was blocked for the concern of one of the people working there -> H-mart.
I can also get lots of lemon grass which the tortoises like, but right now I grow my own. I can buy one pound blocks of frozen lemon grass, as might be used in soups, I've not tried that out yet for the tortoises.
I add nutrient rich supplements as well, but for the greens this is working well. The primaries, Romaine and Santa Barbara mix, are handy and very inexpensive when bought in bulk. The others are mixed in as available, and to not give opportunity to stubborn tortoises described by the phrase "My tortoise will only eat ..."
I add the grass in the amount of "as much as will stick" to whatever other greens are offered. Funny, they for the most part don't eat the live grasses in the enclosures, but chow down on it in the salad.
Will