>>How do I get him to eat?

Now what did I say at the end of my big posting on switching your tortoise over to good foods?

Patience!

And here you are posting a couple days later saying nothing worked!

Now you yourself said the tortoise didn't like the pellets. So why would he start eating them now?

If I understand you correctly, the only thing the tortoise eats is crabgrass. So you must use the crabgrass as the source of the switch over.

Start with 95% crab grass and 5% greens. Chop it all up real fine. I'm talking quarter to half inch pieces. So small he can't tell there's anything but crabgrass in there.

Feed him that.

If he won't eat the crabgrass that finely chopped, throw in a few blades of the full-sized stuff. You'll have to figure out the details to get him going, I can only provide a general framework of what I've used on my torts.

But whatever you do, don't come back in a couple days saying it didn't work. And if he starts eating the grass/greens mix, work slowly, very slowly, toward increasing the percentage of greens.

And make sure the conditions are right for him to eat in the first place. If the weather is cool and cloudy, he won't eat anything.

And be patient!

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