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I was wondering what kinds of commercial dry tortoise foods do you give your tortoises ( Mazuri, Pretty Pets, etc.), and do your tortoises like them?

Thanks for your help.
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Patrick

I think my tortoises could live off of Mazuri alone. All of 'em LOVE it. They get Mazuri more often in the winter & about once a week while outside.

Mine get Mazuri, about once a week, they go ape for it. i use it with rehydrated Bermuda Grass Hay to intice the leopard to eat the grass, i have tried the other stuff but havent really liked it, so i use it now to feed the roaches

Adam

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4.5 THAYERI
1.2 SPLENDIDA
1.3 ALTERNA
0.0.1 HOLD BACK RUNT ALBINO CORN
0.1.1 PYXIE FROG
0.0.1 MEXICAN RED KNEE
1.0 CHILEAN ROSE HAIR

My Leo&Star love the Rep-Cal & Mazuri. Chatting with a zoologist professor he reccommended both tortoise food. The rep-cal smells like candy!

Mine (Desert torts) get Monster Diet, Zeigler Bros., same as Mega Diet. They pretty much hate it and can separate the moistened Monster Diet from any food it is mixed with, even very finely chopped stuff. (They get most of their diet from grazing- I have a bunch of different weeds/annuals/perennials (greens and grasses and flowers) growing for them and they just walk around and choose.)

A friend that has three from the same group just got Mazuri, and hers are going crazy for it. They loved the Monster Diet, though, too. But hers only get to graze infrequently.

I'd like to see if mine like Mazuri, though.

Here they are eating wild blackberries last summer.

Nanci
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0.0.1 Classic Corn, 0.0.1 Cali King, 0.1 Nelson's Milk
1.0 Tricolor Hog, 0.0.1 Eastern Hog, 1.0 Florida King
1.0 Eastern Box Turtle, 1.0 Florida Box Turtle
0.0.2 Desert Torts, 2.0 Feral Pigeons

great picture!

mine really likes mazuri, also; i gave it to him once or twice a week. it's been several months since he's had any, though, because the stores where i got it aren't stocking it anymore, and i haven't really investigated mail order yet... in the meanwhile i give him timothy hay with his salads sometimes. he's a redfoot so it's not like he needs mondo fibers anyway...

I just bought 13oz on eBay for $6.00 with shipping. I guess that's a good price.

My daughter says the torts in that picture look like they have been murdering!

Nanci
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0.0.1 Classic Corn, 0.0.1 Cali King, 0.1 Nelson's Milk
1.0 Tricolor Hog, 0.0.1 Eastern Hog, 1.0 Florida King
1.0 Eastern Box Turtle, 1.0 Florida Box Turtle
0.0.2 Desert Torts, 2.0 Feral Pigeons

Awwww, I adore the berry stained tortoise lips!

How do you rehydrate hay? I've tried soaking and soaking and they are still hard and sharp as a blade. ITs like the water doesn't even penetrate. This is Timothy hay and Orchard grass hay.

The only way I can get my torts to eat any dry hay is to cut it into almost fine powder and sprinkly it onto fresh weeds/grass/veggies. They are OK healthwise because they are still eating mainly grasses/weeds but it gets hard to get all that fresh weeds when I can buy hay. I know all the methods of switching them over but the thing is my small torts don't refuse the hay but just can't seem to bite through the dry hay yet.

I use a mixture of timothy and orchard hay from Carolina Pet Supply. It's called salad style hay. Already cut up for babies just add some water. It works great.
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Julia
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