Hi,
My RT goes outside to roam free (under my supervision) for 30 minutes every day. A few months (maybe 4?) ago, she started seeking out and trying to eat small white stones. I tried to take as many as I could from her mouth, but she still succeeded in eating a few.
Now, she doesn't try to eat stones, but lately she's been eating pieces of bark, small sticks, and bits of pine cone. I'm wondering if I'm not giving her enough nutrients in her diet? She eats ZooMed Grassland Tortoise Diet with some fresh supermarket greens (usually a mix of baby romaine, red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, tango lettuce, arugula, and other "Spring Mix" greens), and three times a week she gets a piece of an Opuntia Cactus pad. She has a cuttlefish bone stick available to her in her cage at all times, and she nibbles at it occasionally but not voraciously. I provide her with a pretty big pool of dechlorinated water all the time.
For the books, she is pooping/peeing just fine, with nice deposits of uric acid once or twice a week.
Thank you so much for your help!
TortoiseLuv0131
My RT goes outside to roam free (under my supervision) for 30 minutes every day. A few months (maybe 4?) ago, she started seeking out and trying to eat small white stones. I tried to take as many as I could from her mouth, but she still succeeded in eating a few.
Now, she doesn't try to eat stones, but lately she's been eating pieces of bark, small sticks, and bits of pine cone. I'm wondering if I'm not giving her enough nutrients in her diet? She eats ZooMed Grassland Tortoise Diet with some fresh supermarket greens (usually a mix of baby romaine, red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, tango lettuce, arugula, and other "Spring Mix" greens), and three times a week she gets a piece of an Opuntia Cactus pad. She has a cuttlefish bone stick available to her in her cage at all times, and she nibbles at it occasionally but not voraciously. I provide her with a pretty big pool of dechlorinated water all the time.
For the books, she is pooping/peeing just fine, with nice deposits of uric acid once or twice a week.
Thank you so much for your help!
TortoiseLuv0131