Shouldn't you also be feeding ground beans? Doug Dix also recommends the Mazuri Tortoise pellets ground with the beans in a coffee grinder(just not kidney beans) and then add small bird seed or small bird pellets like Prety Bird brand. These are vegetable sources of proteins and nutrients, and are working fabulously in a baby that was surrendered to me fairly underdeveloped. He is growing super well now. If you go for the bird pellets, I would opt for the natural if possible, but the color isn't really toxic and it might actually attract the uros, and a thinnish surrendered adult.



I would opt for these options over bugs, because I have read that bugs are just not found in the feces of wild specimens, but these other things are. Here is a very good care sheet if you haven't already read it:

http://www.deerfernfarms.com/Uromastyx_Care.htm



Here is a link to a very well respected herp researcher:

http://www.anapsid.org/uromastyx.html

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