Pellets

[north 1]

Along with veggies, does anyone also have a dish of pellet food for their pancake tortoise? I use Pep-co Tortoise food as a side dish for my Russian and Hinged-back tortoises, does anyone use it for their pancake tortoises?

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

Not me. I don't feed veggies either, only leafy weeds and grasses.

 

[kimber_lee_314]

My pancakes won't even Mazuri! Mine are picky - they love fresh greens, but will begrudgingly eat some weeds and rose/grape/mulberry and hibiscus leaves.

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

I've put Mazuri mush in on top of the weeds for mine. I've never seen any on their faces, but it does go away…maybe just mashed into the substrate though.

 

[mrlax]

We have a pancake (about 16 months) and a marginated hatchling, and we feed them the same things but no veggies at all. The majority of foods that we give them are home-grown weeds using this mix:
http://www.tortoisesupply.com/TestudoMix , and we grow wheat grass and petunias, and give them other home grown things from time to time. We also feed them store-bought dandelion greens, arugula, and kale/collard greens during the week, but this might make up 1/3 or less of each meal offered.

We have had great results with the ZooMed grassland tortoise pellets. We use some in every meal- first moistened, then crumbled and mixed in with their meal. Anyways, hope this helps.

 

[Kapidolo Farms]

I use the ZooMed for grassland species well moistened and mixed in with grocery greens, fresh cut or dry-moistened grass, hibiscus, mulberry, nasturtium, cucumber vine, and sedum. I also use Layena Sunfresh layer crumbles.

On a dry weight basis the ZooMed and Layena SunFresh is about 25% of the diet. I moisten both of these with pure Aloe juice, a native plant food for pancakes.

Will

 

[CourtneyG]

I use spring mix with Mazuri and Grassland mush spread over the leaves. They took a while to eat it, but now they love the stuff on their greens.

 

[Tortoise]

I have used grassland and mazuri-they prefer grassland thus far but still prefer their greens to the other foods.
I think its useful though if they eat a little of the commercial food in case you need to up their weights and its good to have on hand.
Favourite food is shaved cacti pads

 

[GotTort]

How often do you provide the mazuri or grassland?


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[CourtneyG]

Depending the time of the year(class or not) about 5 to 3 times a week.