You missed the point, reptiles don’t feed on highly toxic plants, unless they are starving.

Lethal doses are not immediate but long term, all animals are designed to expel toxins from the organism. Low dosage are pretty insignificant in combination to other foods.



In this case its obvious these torts where neglected and starving, I know we started breeding torts back in 85 and to this day produced 1000s sulcatas, leopards. All these are housed with leaf litter all summer long, we also breed tegus, chuckwallas, uromastyx year round on leaf litter. You have to understand this is not a 6 months affair, I have been doing this decades and never experienced intoxication in anyway.

Add to this that most of my feeders are raised on leaf litter.



This sure makes me laugh at this particular study, no dough it will join the rest of the useless crap the net is feeding us.



No offend this is not about you, it’s about peoples and there bad husbandry practise.

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