buddy_the_tort
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Hi All,
I have just joined this amazing community as i have ordered my 2020 Horsefield online and it is arriving on Thursday. I am very excited but worried at the same time.
I have a few questions about its diet. I have done a bit of reading on this forum and online etc. I have also downloaded the Tortoise Table app.
As i see it, i have 3 options for food:
1) Supermarket - i keep seeing that's bad and i shouldn't feed salads/greens etc from the supermarket.
Foods easily available are: Lettuce, green peashoot, baby chard, peppery babyleaf rocket, spinach, watercress, carrot, capsicum/pepper, corn etc.
Please let me know if i can feed these? How often i can feed these. If i am away for a week or 2 and someone else is looking after him i prefer this food as it will make it easy and convenient for my friend or flatmate to feed him.
2) Garden - i have a community garden for my apartment building and all the available plants/flowers look very familiar from the TT app (safe to feed option). I have attached the pictures. I tried using a plant recognition app but there are so many weird names that i got more confused. All of them look similar to each other and i cant confirm if these are safe to feed. I am very excited and hoping you guys can confirm these are ok to feed. Please let me know from the photo numbers which are safe to feed. And again how often i can feed these? Can i feed the flower and the leaves?
3) The 3rd option is grow my own food. I am happy to grow some plants indoors. I came across this "Tortoise feed growing kit"
Looks promising. Any thoughts on these? I can only grow plants indoors. I have a small balcony but we are going into winter here in the UK and its going to raining a lot.
Any other easy to grow options? Any options for growing plants inside his table? If I put a small plant inside its table how will he eat that? He wont be able to climb to get access to the plant?
I am going to visit my local garden shop and using the TT app find some pot plants to buy.
I am happy to mix and match the above options. I want to explore all 3 options to make sure it has a really good diet.
The other item i want to check is supplement and pallet food. Again i have seen the threads and most places say its ok to feed them once/twice a week as treat.
Is the komodo tortoise food ok to feed?
Supplement: I have bought the "habistat Medivet Reptavite". This is a multi vitamin.
Do i have to sprinkle this every day?
What about calcium sprinkle? Do i have to sprinkle both everyday? I havent bought any calcium sprinkle.
Any thoughts, suggestions, advice will be much appreciated.
Apologies if this question has been asked already. Please point me to the thread. I am happy to read that.
I have just joined this amazing community as i have ordered my 2020 Horsefield online and it is arriving on Thursday. I am very excited but worried at the same time.
I have a few questions about its diet. I have done a bit of reading on this forum and online etc. I have also downloaded the Tortoise Table app.
As i see it, i have 3 options for food:
1) Supermarket - i keep seeing that's bad and i shouldn't feed salads/greens etc from the supermarket.
Foods easily available are: Lettuce, green peashoot, baby chard, peppery babyleaf rocket, spinach, watercress, carrot, capsicum/pepper, corn etc.
Please let me know if i can feed these? How often i can feed these. If i am away for a week or 2 and someone else is looking after him i prefer this food as it will make it easy and convenient for my friend or flatmate to feed him.
2) Garden - i have a community garden for my apartment building and all the available plants/flowers look very familiar from the TT app (safe to feed option). I have attached the pictures. I tried using a plant recognition app but there are so many weird names that i got more confused. All of them look similar to each other and i cant confirm if these are safe to feed. I am very excited and hoping you guys can confirm these are ok to feed. Please let me know from the photo numbers which are safe to feed. And again how often i can feed these? Can i feed the flower and the leaves?
3) The 3rd option is grow my own food. I am happy to grow some plants indoors. I came across this "Tortoise feed growing kit"
Reptile food range | Swell Reptiles
Reptile food range, including food from Arcadia, Exo Terra and Komodo. Order by 5pm for next-day Express Delivery!
www.reptiles.swelluk.com
Any other easy to grow options? Any options for growing plants inside his table? If I put a small plant inside its table how will he eat that? He wont be able to climb to get access to the plant?
I am going to visit my local garden shop and using the TT app find some pot plants to buy.
I am happy to mix and match the above options. I want to explore all 3 options to make sure it has a really good diet.
The other item i want to check is supplement and pallet food. Again i have seen the threads and most places say its ok to feed them once/twice a week as treat.
Is the komodo tortoise food ok to feed?
Supplement: I have bought the "habistat Medivet Reptavite". This is a multi vitamin.
Do i have to sprinkle this every day?
What about calcium sprinkle? Do i have to sprinkle both everyday? I havent bought any calcium sprinkle.
Any thoughts, suggestions, advice will be much appreciated.
Apologies if this question has been asked already. Please point me to the thread. I am happy to read that.
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