Mazuri Small Tortoise Diet LS is a low-starch tortoise food designed to encourage natural diet. Containing yucca extract to minimize ammonia odors in water bowls, and nutritionally complete for small tortoises species as well as herbivorous lizards and omnivorous turtles such as box turtles.
Mazuri’s pellets are nutritionally dense, easily dry-storable without freezing and widely available, making them an attractive option for many pet owners.
Contents
Vegetables and Flowers
Box turtles, as omnivores, require both plants and animals for optimal health. A high proportion of their diet should consist of vegetables – particularly dark leafy greens like mustard greens, collard greens, turnip greens and dandelion greens which should make up an essential portion. Lighter green vegetables (iceberg lettuce or head lettuce with celery are less nutritious and should be avoided as these could lead to deficiencies and other health concerns.)
Vitamin A-rich vegetables such as yams, sweet potatoes, squash and cooked carrots should also be included as these will assist the turtle’s body in absorbing and using calcium effectively.
Avoid feeding store-bought flowers regularly as part of their diet, as these tend to be heavily fertilized and treated with pesticides. Instead, offer non-toxic food products like EarthPro DragonFuel that contains various healthy flowers, leaves and fruits that your turtle may enjoy eating.
Fruit
Mazuri Small Tortoise Diet LS is a low-starch, high-fiber tortoise food designed to meet all essential reptile nutrition requirements. Containing yucca extract to help minimize ammonia odors and tailored for smaller tortoise species including Iguanas and Uromastyx reptiles; with an easy pellet form feeding experience and no wastage during feeding sessions for more natural feeding experiences for your reptile.
It offers all of the balanced nutrients your tortoise requires for eye, skin and GI tract health as well as normal growth. Plus, its large particle size makes for enjoyable snacking! Your tortoise will absolutely love its taste!
Box turtles require a diet consisting of both plant and animal proteins to remain healthy. Animal proteins suitable for consumption include grasshoppers, crickets, mealworms, wax worms and earthworms. You may also feed your box turtle live prey items that have been raised either inside your home or purchased from pet stores/bait stores/reptile breeders – just ensure that any animals used as prey items do not contain pesticides/fertilizers etc before offering them to your turtle.
Water
Box turtles require a varied diet of plant and animal matter to stay healthy and happy, with higher animal protein foods typically providing more benefit for carnivorous species like box turtles.
Mazuri’s Aquatic Turtle Diet is an ideal food option for hatchlings and adults alike, featuring high levels of fish and animal proteins. The pellets can easily float to encourage surface feeding by turtles.
Hikari Tropical Sinking Carnivore Pellets are another fantastic choice, providing essential nutrition to herbivorous turtles as well as hatchlings of mud, musk or map types.
Omega One provides an effective turtle food called Juvenile Turtle Sticks that features an optimal calcium:phosphorus ratio and offers excellent levels of vitamins D3 and E. The main ingredients include fresh whole fish such as salmon, herring and black cod; in addition, this formula features wheat germ, krill meal alfalfa meal and spirulina algae as source plant matter.
Feeding Instructions
Box turtles require fresh, clean water at all times for drinking and bathing purposes. A shallow dish, crock, or pan that cannot easily be tipped over should be provided so they may bathe safely while submerging their heads completely under the surface for drinking and bathing. A misting spray should also be added every few weeks to increase humidity and prevent dehydration.
Box turtles are omnivorous animals, so their diet should include a wide selection of plant-based vegetables such as collard greens, bok choy, mustard greens, parsley, alfalfa hay, Swiss chard, Kale and watercress. High amounts of oxalates may bind with calcium and other trace minerals in their digestive system preventing absorption by your turtle.
Mazuri Aquatic Turtle Diet is a floating pellet food composed of all the essential ingredients required for turtle survival, such as ground corn, chicken byproduct meal, fish oil, menhaden fish meal, ground flaxseed meal soybean meal brewer’s yeast salt vitamin c vitamin d and zinc oxide – an ideal diet for freshwater turtles such as painted, red-eared turtles as well as pond and wood turtles.
