Professor Brenda
Well-Known Member
Hi friends. It's been a while since I've been here. Hope you all are well. My torts and I are fabulous.
I was looking at the different formulas for Mazuri tortoise foods. I noticed the one I feed my 7-year old sulcata is Tortoise Diet formula M521 is recommended by Mazuri for Adult box turtles, red-foots, Elongated, Indian star, and Burmese tortoises. The ingredients include molasses, ground corn and alfalfa meal, salt, no timothy hay. Those do not sound like good ingredients for sulcatas.
The Tortoise LS diet formula 5E5L says it is for sulcatas, Aldabras, and Galapagos, among others. This one includes timothy hay, molasses, fructose, and dried apple pumace, no corn. This seems better for sulcatas.
My sulcata an box turtles get a very wide variety plant diet as well as other proteins, etc. items for the box turtles. So I am just looking at the pellet food that is a PART of the diet.
What is the best formula for our juvenile and adult sulcatas? Comments on the ingredients welcome. What do you think about the corn and molasses in the ingredients for sulcatas?
Thank you for this discussion in advance.
Brenda
I was looking at the different formulas for Mazuri tortoise foods. I noticed the one I feed my 7-year old sulcata is Tortoise Diet formula M521 is recommended by Mazuri for Adult box turtles, red-foots, Elongated, Indian star, and Burmese tortoises. The ingredients include molasses, ground corn and alfalfa meal, salt, no timothy hay. Those do not sound like good ingredients for sulcatas.
The Tortoise LS diet formula 5E5L says it is for sulcatas, Aldabras, and Galapagos, among others. This one includes timothy hay, molasses, fructose, and dried apple pumace, no corn. This seems better for sulcatas.
My sulcata an box turtles get a very wide variety plant diet as well as other proteins, etc. items for the box turtles. So I am just looking at the pellet food that is a PART of the diet.
What is the best formula for our juvenile and adult sulcatas? Comments on the ingredients welcome. What do you think about the corn and molasses in the ingredients for sulcatas?
Thank you for this discussion in advance.
Brenda