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Here is picture of it. There is one problem my tort is loves store bought tort food and wont eat much anthing else? I tried every thing I can change diet he just wont eat anthing else.? any ideas getting him eat something else. i tried not feeding him that when i first got him tried all diffent tye stuff would not even toch the stuff.

You can switch him.

With patience I've been able to switch lots of reptiles over to the food I wanted.

Take the food he likes, mix it with the food he should be eating, and chop it up real fine. And I don't mean 1" squares. I mean finely chopped into 1/4" or smaller cubes. If the food he likes is pellets, soak the pellets until they are mushy and then add in the finely chopped new stuff and mash it all together. In fact, let the chopped up meal sit for an hour to let the juices and smells mix together. Then feed it to him.

At first, make the new food only 10% of his meal, then 20%, etc.

Don't try to do this all in one week. Give it a few weeks. Unless you are currently feeding him hot dogs and nachos, he'll be OK on the "store bought" stuff until you get him on a more varied diet.

Thank ill try that

Bradtort is on track. I agree, but would suggest you keep trying a wide variety of "favorites" including yellow flowers i.e. dandelion, coreopsis, pansies. Try grating up some bright yellow butternut, banana, pumpkin squash. I rehabbed a tortoise in poor health that was fed nothing but lettuce, it was habituated/addicted. It refused everthing I offered. So, I hibernated it for couple months, and it emerged a ravenous eating machine, problem solved. If yours is in good enough health come Fall, you might want to try a hibernation and see if it emerges with a less fussy attitude... Good luck