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Hello everyone,
been a long while since i was posting here on kingsnake..

I'm getting a young 4" sulcata this weekend,

In my research I've seen some conflicting information about their day to day diets...

So I was hoping the collective experience of everyone here might be able to set me straight on what I should be keeping stock of for my little guy to make sure he's happy and healthy.

So in addition to what I should feed him day to day...

I'd also like to know of what Plants and Grasses I should be planting in my gardens this spring to provide for food for him as well.

I live in Ontario , Canada. Can grow most anything during the spring/summer/fall.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

-FCM

I have 5 sulcatas a 30lb, 20lb, 15lb, 7lb, and 5lb-er(Give or take a little).

As for food. Bi-weekly, I feed them dandelions, endive, escarole, turnip greens, collard greens, and romaine. I also drop some yellow squash and pumpkin when its in season (seedless of course). I also have a container of mazuri that I fill one a week (its one of those self-refilling ones) so that they can eat it when they want it or not (and believe it or not, they ration it pretty well). I also make sure they have orchard grass hay available at all times. Being that its winter, I only soak them once to twice a week.

During the summer they are in their outdoor enclosure and eat grasses (burmuda, orchard grass, timothy, crab grass, etc). They also love roses, hibiscus, rose of sharron, and mulberrys.

Check out turtlecafe.com for some plant info.

Hope this helps

Grape

bi-weekly you feed those lattucy greens n' stuff...

so the rest of the time its grasses and hay for a majority of their daily diet?..

Its very much still winter here( snow on the ground )
so in his enclosure I have a few bunches of timothy hay..

he nibbles at it periodicly and sleeps in it too.
I have a small flat food dish in there where each morning i put some chopped up fresh dill and romain lettuce.. he seems to enjoy chomping on it then promptly dozes off in the middle of it all.

I guess im on the right track. I plan on growing alot of variety of grasses for him this spring/summer/fall.

I'm still trying to find somewhere I can buy Elephant Grass to grow for him.. but no such luck finding a source yet.