You hit the nail on the head... I call it the shotgun method. You give it everything and you are bound to hit the nutrients/conditions it needs because it is very difficult to determine what these animals actually need.



Getting it to eat grasses is easy (kinda). They seem to be programmed to constantly forrage. Use the grass as a substrate. Another suggestion, believe it or not, even my Cherryhead redfoots can resist fresh cut lawn clippings.



My feeding schedule consists of Mazuri one day, skip a day, gorcery greens one day, skip a day and then, lawn clippings one day and so on. The mazuri is the only food that is removed after they walk away. On the other stuff it is left until it is finished and not replenished until it is. (so the 'skip a day is flexable) (The rate of consumption is obviously tied to temperature so the rate of feeding has to be flexable.)



The guys outside also eat whatever falls into the pen (leaves, seed pods, worms, bugs, bird feathers... birds) and what pops up in the pens.



So the majority of my guys do get a pretty varied diet and that is what I recommend.



(welcome to the world of chelonians)

(kinda reminds me of the opening line to the Twilight Zone)
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