Tortoises in the wild eat an assortment of leaves and plants which provide essential nutrition, yet overfeeding this type of diet in captivity may result in serious health problems.
Your tortoise’s diet should consist of grass and hay as the staple foods. Dandelion, collards and mustard greens should also be included, along with prickly pear cacti pads and sweet desert apples (sliced in small portions). Tomatoes contain potentially toxic glycoalkaloids called solanine and chaconine that should be avoided.
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Mazuri® Tortoise Food
Mazuri(r) Tortoise Food was designed to mimic their natural diet of leafy plants found in nature by providing a delicious yet balanced, nutritious and delicious meal that your tortoise will come running for! Your tortoise may even come running when feeding time rolls around!
This low starch tortoise diet features high fiber levels and live probiotics to aid the digestive tract. Crafted from grass hay and available as extruded pellets for efficient waste reduction and an ideal feeding environment, it also includes yucca to reduce ammonia odor.
This tortoise feed is ideal for use with herbivorous tortoises and lizards from arid-zone and grassland environments, including Aldabra tortoises such as African Spurred/Sulcata tortoises as well as Desert, Egyptian Galapagos Gopher Greek Leopard Pancake Red Footed Yellow-Footed tortoises as well as Chuckwalla Uromastyx Lizards. Additionally it serves tropical omnivorous tortoises like Burmese/Indian Star Tortoises Elongated Tortoie adult box turtles & wood turtles among many others!
Pretty Bird® Large Tortoise Food
Pretty Bird(r) Large Tortoise Food is an all-purpose pellet food designed to promote excellent growth rates in tortoises. Composed of nutritious ingredients that larger tortoises readily accept, this diet boasts an 8% protein, 3% fat and 13% fiber composition – available in three-pound bags for your convenience. Ingredients include corn, wheat, oat hulls/groats/groats, soybean meal/meal, dried molasses (calcium carbonate/dicalcium Phosphate), DL-Methionine; Yucca Schidigera Extract/Yeast Extract; Choline Chloride/Vitamin E Supplement; Iron Oxides Ferrous Sulfate; Zinc Oxides Niacinamide Riboflavin; Vitamin A Supplement; Pyridoxine Hydrochloride/Vitamin B12 Supplement/Biotin
Pretty Pets contains more sugar than Mazuri, and should not be fed on an ongoing basis due to possible digestive and kidney issues for tortoises. Instead, try finely chopping together fruits, vegetables, and greens (our Tortoise Table Plant Database is here to assist with that) into meals that your tortoise will enjoy eating on an ongoing basis.
Pretty Bird® Large Tortoise Nuggets
Food specifically tailored for large tortoises that provides them with essential nutrition. Featuring 8 percent protein, 3 percent fat and 13 percent fibre content – they will be enjoyed by all land tortoises! Best fed once or twice weekly as an addition to their overall diet as pellet foods contain too much protein and sugar that may lead to digestive issues for most tortoises if fed too regularly.
Make sure that your tort has access to plenty of fresh greens and discontinue feeding him fruit, as tortoises do not digest fruits correctly and eating too many can result in serious health problems for them. Instead, cut up cactus pads, carrots or kale and mix it with some water on days he refuses food so he remains hydrated; eventually he should resume eating on its own – be patient as tortoises can be stubborn creatures!
Pretty Bird® Large Tortoise Pellets
Pretty Bird large tortoise food features multicolored nuggets that are enthusiastically accepted by all types of tortoises. It contains 8 percent protein, 3 percent fat and 13 percent fiber; our research animals showed tremendously increased growth rates with this food when fed moistened or dry; 20 pounds are available now!
At times, pellet type foods are used as an incentive for tortoises who refuse to eat the healthy greens and fruits you offer them. While occasionally supplementing his diet (once or twice per week at most) may be acceptable, regular consumption could lead to health issues for your tortoise as these pellets contain high concentrations of protein and sugar which could cause issues for most tortoises.
Ingredients include corn, oat hulls, soybean meal, dicalcium phosphate (DCP), rice bran, yeast extract, calcium carbonate and salt as well as monocalcium phosphate, which contains DL-Lysine, Choline Chloride Yucca Schidigera Extract, DL-Methionine as well as Niacin, Folic Acid Potassium Iodate Copper Sulfate Sodium Selenite Iron Oxides Zinc Oxides Manganous Oxides as well as Rosemary Extract.
