Ok after all this I don't know if anyone would want to read this but.. if there is any chance a person wants to use oyster shell here goes.

I found out when we adopted the tortoise almost 5 years ago that you can buy 25lb bags of it for around 5 dollars in a feed store. It's bagged in huge quantities for horses.

I thought we needed calcium carbonate so I went to a feed store & asked for that. They'd never heard of it LOL!

Told my vet at the time who used to be a large animal vet & he said Uhh you said the wrong thing. He said you can't just go in the feed store & ask ole red (a name he chose for any feed store clerk) for calcium carbonate he won't know what you mean. He said ask for oyster shell.

So DH stops in a feed store on his way home from work one day & comes home with a 25lb bag of oyster shell. In big bold letter it said oyster shell, right underneath that in smaller but bold letters it said Calcium Carbonate. bwahahahahahaha



Turned out I didn't need it for the tortoise because I didn't realize at the time that our soil is very high in calcium already.. and the chunks of it are so big she won't eat it anyway.

The hermit crabs like it though.



IF anyone would want to try that instead of cuttlebone, farm animal feed stores have more stuff I can use than I knew.
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