Bradley price
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My tortoise is 6 months old and I saw online that you should have 2 days where you don’t feed them. Should I do this?
Should you have two starve days
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No there is no benefit to starve days Tortoises are natural grazers and eat as they go pretty much all the time in the wild . The best we can do for them is try to have the right food available all the time
Absolutely not.
A tortoise’s natural behaviour is to browse for food interspersed With basking. They eat every day in the wild (unlike carnivores like big cats)
Your tortoise should be first thing every day without fail. A mound of greens roughly the size of its shell is a good starting point. If it’s all eaten then offer more.
It won’t overeat and it won’t get fat
A tortoise’s natural behaviour is to browse for food interspersed With basking. They eat every day in the wild (unlike carnivores like big cats)
Your tortoise should be first thing every day without fail. A mound of greens roughly the size of its shell is a good starting point. If it’s all eaten then offer more.
It won’t overeat and it won’t get fat
He can go without food the same number that you can go without!
As you guessed, no!
I suggest reading info on this forum and not other places. Most if not all info outside this forum is wrong, outdated or plain stupid.
In the wild the only time a tortoise would likely not eat would be during brumation, bad or cold weather or if there was no food around.
There are times they will eat less then normal but that should be their choice.
I suggest reading info on this forum and not other places. Most if not all info outside this forum is wrong, outdated or plain stupid.
In the wild the only time a tortoise would likely not eat would be during brumation, bad or cold weather or if there was no food around.
There are times they will eat less then normal but that should be their choice.
I feed mine twice each day.Morning and late afternoon but only as much as they can eat in about 25 minuted
Tortoises are browsers. They don’t eat meals like you and I. They bask and eat alternately theoughout the day.
please don’t place a time limit on eating. Place a load of food in the morning and leave them to eat it as they go about their day. It doesn’t matter if it goes a bit limp. They don’t care and it won’t harm them.
