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New Greek Tortoise

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Posted by: Melisssss at Thu Apr 26 18:54:57 2007  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Melisssss ]  
   

I have had my tortoise for about a month and have a few questions:



Petco has me keeping him on a substrate of alphalpha pellets and I have to say that they do stink. Is there a better substrate than this?



Can You plant Live plants in thier enclosure and actually have them survive? I planted a dandalion plant in there and it lasted about an hour before he ate it to the dirt.



Petco said they don't eat much. This was true when I fed him grocery store greens chopped fine but lately I have just been pulling stuff from the yard (mostly dandalions) and laying them in his dish and he eats like a bottomless pit! Can you overfeed these guys? Is there harm in not chopping their greens? He seems to do just fine on his own.



I think those are my only questions for now. Here's a little picture of the guy.



   

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