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EJ
at Fri Dec 7 18:40:56 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by EJ ]
I seem to be having trouble in expressing this point in words.
It is convenient to use but I really don't have a problem providing greens and weeds. My problem is understanding what is available in those weeds and greens and what exactly each tortoise needs.
I cautiously started feeding this diet and found that whatever the ratio of nutrients is in this diet... it hits all the marks I'm looking for.
I fail to see why a tortoise should kill themselves and sometimes the tortoise trying to play nutritionist when it is an unbelieveable confusing and argumentative field.
Notice that the new catch phrase is to feed as varied a diet as possible... I don't know about anyone eles but I use that phrase because I really don't have a clue how to explain not only what a tortoise really needs but how to really provide for that need so I place my trust in those that do seem to know what they are talking about.
>>Often one of the hardest things to do is admit, after consistently professing something, that you were wrong. But that's the way herpetology and other sciences work. That's why we no longer believe that the sun rotates around the Earth. Just in the same way I feel like tortoise keepers will start to realize that pyramiding is not caused by quick growth Always have to toss in my 2 cents...until I am proven wrong at least. My belief on the protein debate is that the hastened growth simply makes pyramiding appear more rapidly, but I place the cause of pyramiding on humidity/hydration. But I am no expert. Just a guy with some tortoises.
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>>I enjoy reading your posts, and though I don't feed Mazuri to my russians or my redfoot, I am planning on giving it a try in the near future. I can't see myself using it as a complete diet, but I can understand where it would come in handy with large tortoises that would, as you have illustrated, annihilate the produce department. being able to buy 25lb bags of the stuff has to be a bit easier (on you and your refrigerator). I feel like it would be good for my small collection to have it on hand since there are times in the winter when conditions are bad and either I cannot make it to the grocery store, or the produce cannot make it there.
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Ed @ Tortoise Keepers
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RE: My aldabras - EJ, Fri Dec 7 18:40:56 2007