Everthing you're doing sounds good, just two things I'd suggest you change, one right away, the other when you can afford it.



1) Stop feeding banana except on very rare occasions, like when giving medicine or extra calcium. Redfoot's and Yellowfoot's can get hooked on it and it has a bad Calcium to Phosphorus ratio. Switch to Papaya, fresh figs, or Raspberry/Blackberries. I know they are all more expense, but they have excellent CA/PH ratios (5:1 for Papaya, 3:1 for figs, and 2:1 for the berries) and your tort will be much better off on those fruits as a replacement for bananas. Also, don't forget to feed it chopped opuntia cactus pads on a regular basis. They love it, it's great for them, and it has the best ca/ph ratio of all tort foods.



2) Move your tort to non-glass enclosure. For now put something over the glass on the outside 4-5 inches up the sides. Tortoises go where they can see and they will try very hard to go through glass which stresses them greatly. This is particularly true with Mediterranean species and is a factor with tropicals as well. You will end up moving your Yellowfoot in the future anyway into at least a 4' x 6' enclosure if not bigger once it reaches 5-6" in length.



Good luck.

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• question on yellow foot tortois - powerram74, Tue Jul 22 23:58:43 2003
• Head bobbing is normal on both yellowfoots and - mayday, Wed Jul 23 08:36:33 2003
• RE: question on yellow foot tortois - johlum, Wed Jul 23 21:57:34 2003
• thanks for the advice long post to give an idea how i set its cage up.... - powerram74, Thu Jul 24 02:40:13 2003
• I mean yellow foot lol N/P - powerram74, Thu Jul 24 02:41:40 2003
• RE: thanks for the advice long post to give an idea how i set its cage up.... - johlum, Thu Jul 24 09:30:30 2003
• my yellow foot went to the vet..... - powerram74, Fri Jul 25 00:24:21 2003
• RE: my yellow foot went to the vet..... - johlum, Sun Jul 27 07:31:05 2003