Forest tortoises require large enclosures. Aquariums offer limited ventilation, making them unsuitable as respiratory issues can develop in such an environment. Plastic-based rabbit cages and cattle troughs can be modified as suitable housing options for these reptiles.
Zoo Med’s Natural Forest Tortoise Food contains chopped grasses to provide long fibers essential for tortoises’ natural diet, plus small amounts of papaya and mango as well as animal protein to meet individual tortoise dietary needs. Furthermore, young dandelion greens and yucca may also be included to provide needed nutritional value.
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Exo Terra Forest Tortoise Food
Forest tortoises (Chelonoidis carbonaria) require a complete herbivorous diet rich in essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids for healthy development and adult care. Our high-fiber diet was carefully developed using natural plant and fruit ingredients so as to promote proper growth and wellbeing of adult tortoises.
Zoo Med’s Natural Grassland and Forest Tortoise Foods now include long-stem fibers which form an integral part of tortoises’ natural diets. The long-stem fiber diet includes Dandelion Greens and Yucca as well as grasses, roots, berries and other treats your tortoise will devour!
Feed each morning an amount that equals what one European tortoise can consume in 24 hours and ensure it is easily accessible. Remove any uneaten food at the end of each day, clean its dish after every use and provide separate feeding and drinking stations for each animal housed within an enclosure, as well as fresh, clean water always available for consumption.
Zoo Med Natural Forest Tortoise Food
Zoo Med Forest Tortoise Food is an all-natural pelleted diet that features lots of plant material and an abundant concentration of fiber, with at least 13 percent protein and calcium (an adequate level). It’s ideal for tortoises who don’t accept other food items well; however it should still be supplemented with meat or insects to meet your tortoise’s complete dietary requirements.
This all-new formula mimics the natural high-fiber, low-protein diet of grassland tortoises. Its components include coarsely ground timothy, miscanthus and alfalfa grasses cold-pressed to preserve long stem fibers–an integral component of their natural diets. Furthermore, this diet also contains nutritious yucca, dandelion greens and other beneficial plants that these creatures enjoy eating.
This food is suitable for Sulcata, Leopard, Pancake and Hermanns tortoises – though any grassland species will benefit. To achieve optimal results, combine this treat with other food in their enclosure while offering fresh drinking water at all times.
Zoo Med Gourmet Tortoise Food
Zoo Med Gourmet Tortoise Food is an extensive, nutritionally-fortified herbivorous tortoise diet. Packed full of tasty foods like carrots, sweet potato, and hibiscus flower petals specifically approved by tortoises for consumption; additionally it’s fortified with essential vitamins and minerals necessary for their wellbeing – making this herbal diet suitable for Sulcata, Russian, Pancake Marginated Leopard Hermann’s Desert tortoises as well as Box Turtles!
Replicating grassland tortoises’ natural high-fiber, low-protein diet requires using coarsely ground timothy and miscanthus hays that preserve long stem fiber essential to true herbivore tortoises. Furthermore, there’s also fresh endive, escarole, and dandelion greens as nutritional boosts to provide added dietary variety.
This food can either be fed dry, or lightly misted with water to allow its natural pigments to seep out and become visible. As a supplement to their regular diet of Timothy Hay and other greens, this should be fed three to four times every week as an additional feeding.
Mazuri Tortoise Food
Mazuri(r) Small Tortoise Diet LS is an optimal diet designed for smaller tortoise species and omnivorous reptiles such as green iguanas and uromastyx reptiles, featuring low starch content and high fiber levels to provide complete nutrition in pellet form – providing an ideal replacement to natural variations found in natural diets. Featuring yucca for reduced ammonia emissions and complete nutrition in its form akin to that found naturally within nature, as well as natural varied tortoise diets!
This diet provides optimal conditions for herbivorous tortoises native to arid zones such as Aldabra, African spurred/sulcata tortoises, desert tortoises, Egyptian, Galapagos gopher tortoises, Galapagos gopher tortoises, Galapagos Galapagos gopher Greek leopard pancake or radiated tortoises as well as chuckwalla and uromastyx lizards. Additionally this diet can also be fed to adult box turtles and wood turtles.
This balanced tortoise food provides the optimal combination of nutrients for eye, skin and gastrointestinal tract health as well as normal growth. The large particle size makes digestion simple while its tasty flavors attract tortoises to it. Ideal for tropical and omnivorous tortoises like Burmese/Indian star tortoises; elongated tortoises; red-footed tortoises as well as adult box turtles/wood turtles.
