I think my Hermanns is addicted.

[TortoiseGeorge]

When i first got my hermanns tortoise i just fed him on dandelion leaves and romanie lettuce and weeds from the garden. But then one day i saw on www.thetortoisetable.org.uk that i could occasionally feed him honeysuckle flowers. So i did. And then after that he started to slow down on what he ate. I gave him regular soaking in luke warm water and i have now finally got him eating again by rubbing the flowers on his food and now he finally eats it. But this is not a long term solution so does anyone have any ideas on how i can weane him off the flowers. Thanks.

 

[dmmj]

Simple enough solution, stop giving him the flowers. hey can only eat what you provide, A healthy tortoise won't starve itself to death.

 

[wellington]

If he won't eat by just stopping. Then rub one piece of green and put on top of the pile. Next time, make it a smaller piece of green and so on until you don't do it at all.

 

[TortoiseGeorge]

Ok. I am going to try and decrease the amount of food that I rub with the flowers and hopefully he will learn to just not have them. Thanks for your replys

 

[shellysmom]

Are you sure he's not just slowing down his food intake because the days are getting shorter and he's thinking of hibernation? I have no idea what a Hermann's hibernation is like, but my box turtle always used to slow down around the beginning of September. ???

 

[CourtneyAndCarl]

that's how my carl was with stonecrop leaves. The way I fixed this issue was by mincing up his food, and throwing in some stone crop with it. At first, it was about 70/30 stonecrop compared to other stuff, then I slowly got it to wher it was maybe 10/90. Now I can feed him all kinds of things, stonecrop or not. Although if there is something that I know he doesn't particularly enjoy, like his vitamin/calcium supplements or his ZooMed Grassland tortoise food, I will always add in some stonecrop on those occasions because then I know for a fact that he'll eat it anyway.

 

[TortoiseGeorge]

that's how my carl was with stonecrop leaves. The way I fixed this issue was by mincing up his food, and throwing in some stone crop with it. At first, it was about 70/30 stonecrop compared to other stuff, then I slowly got it to wher it was maybe 10/90. Now I can feed him all kinds of things, stonecrop or not. Although if there is something that I know he doesn't particularly enjoy, like his vitamin/calcium supplements or his ZooMed Grassland tortoise food, I will always add in some stonecrop on those occasions because then I know for a fact that he'll eat it anyway.

Yeah this is exactly what I am going to try thanks!