Local Tropical Fruits
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Redfoot love fruit and they're one of the only tortoise species that can actually eat it.
It can be up to 60% of the diet during the summer.
Feed it any fruit that you can eat yourself except number 8 if that is a CASHEW APPLE.
CASHEW APPLEs have a numbing affect. I don't know if that makes them dangerous to a tortoise. But that's why I've never fed any.
Also, number 5 looks like DRAGON FRUIT. My Redfoot aren't fond of it. But you can try it yourself.
Most Redfoot aren't very picky eaters.
It can be up to 60% of the diet during the summer.
Feed it any fruit that you can eat yourself except number 8 if that is a CASHEW APPLE.
CASHEW APPLEs have a numbing affect. I don't know if that makes them dangerous to a tortoise. But that's why I've never fed any.
Also, number 5 looks like DRAGON FRUIT. My Redfoot aren't fond of it. But you can try it yourself.
Most Redfoot aren't very picky eaters.
yes i'm aware of the "numbing effect"as you call it, I have a cashew apple tree i eat them often. i have never feed it to my tortoise for that reason too. cashew apples and red foots are both native to my country so i can only assume they consume it in the wild, but better safe than sorry is my mentality.
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Here in south Florida, we have many, if not all of the same fruits.
Don't hesitate to offer them to your Redfoot.
