Tortoises!!?

Question

my tortoise doesnt like the fruits dat i give him.. ( sliced.. carrots apples and celery)... is it ok? it'll only eat pelots and the leaf lookin things.. but i saw other tortoises eat fruits and vegies!! wats wrong wit mai turtle?

Answer 1

There are two major tortoise diets, and if you offer the wrong diet to the tortoise, it could cause severe and probably fatal problems.

GRASSLAND DIET is for the arid species- Greek, Hermann's, Russian, Sulcata, Leopard, etc.

This diet should be mostly grasses, flowers, dryer greens, cacti pads and fruits, leaves (like mulberry). A smaller part of the diet would be nutritious greens like turnip greens and endive lettuce. An occasional treat of berries is all the fruit they need.

FOREST DIET is for the humidity-loving species, like Red- and Yellow- Foots, Hingebacks, etc.

This diet is a lot of nutritious greens, tropical fruits (other than bananas), and some meats.



You may notice that neither list includes celery, apples, or pellets.

Your turtle eats badly because you feed it badly. Find the RIGHT diet, stick to it, and offer the right cares (temp, humidity, light, etc.) and it will eat like a pig.

http://www.tortoisetrust.org

Answer 2

You don't say what kind of tortoise you have, but carrots, apples and celery as well as pelleted food are not good choices for any kind of tortoise.
If you have a Russian tortoise go to www.russiantortoise.org
Sulcata go to www.africantortoise.com
Redfoot go to www.redfoottortoise.com
If you're not sure what kind of tortoise you have go to our site and e-mail me through the contact us form and I'll help you id your tortoise and get you the correct diet info.
Many tortoises should not be given any fruit because it disrupts their natural gut flora and can cause an overload of parasites, so if your tort is of that type it's a good thing that it won't eat the fruit. :-)
Julie, Director
Turtle Rescue of Long Island

Answer 3

Some tortoises naturally rarely encounter fruit and thus have not developed the capacity for eating them. In this manner they have an innate ability to avoid eating items that are poisonous to them. For example my hermanns tortoise refused to eat fruit and later I found out that fruit should not be a part of its diet as the suger and water content was bad for its digestion. So in short my answer is if it doesn't want it it doesn't need it... THe tortoise is smarter than you give it credit for.

Answer 4

it will be efficient to understand the position you're going, and how you're going/how lengthy you'll holiday. regularly, a pair days with minimum help isn't a huge deal. an undemanding decision is 'cocooning'- %. them of their own plastic bins or tubs with lids that are on the point of their length (disposable foodstuff storage packing containers are large), then %. them with moss, paper toweling, etc.round them to scale back circulate and stress (it really is way less demanding than transferring round in small, darkish places). Their should be some very minor dampening to keep some smooth humidity. some air holes on each and each and every wall provides ventilation. placed the tubs in a field and placed wadded newspaper round to scale back circulate, vibration, and warmth loss. verify air can nonetheless flow around the tubs freely. upload some chemical hand-hotter packs contained in the field if necessary to keep temps down. placed some air holes contained in the field. If achievable, use a probe thermometer with a extreme/low alarm to reveal screen the temps contained in the packing containers. Label each and each and every bathtub and the field with emergency assistance- what's in there, a good contact decision, a reward furnish, etc. purely in case it receives remote from you. purely as a speedy FYI- Sulcata is the African Spurred Tortoise, no longer Spur-thighed. that is an undemanding blunders at countless web pages. The Greek is the Spur-thighed.

Answer 5

He may not like carrots apples and celery- some are partial to certain kinds of fruit and veggies. Some of ours loved melons, others strawberries,oranges, etc. even one loved limes!

Just keep trying different foods- eventually you will find some that he likes. Plus, if he hasn't eatten fruits and veggies his whole life, it will take him a while to get used to the idea and find out that they are good. Sometimes it takes our rescue tortoises a couple months of being offered the fruits and veggies before they will even taste it.

You can try chopping them up very small and mixing in with the romaine lettuce and pellets as well. I hope you mean romain lettuce by your "lettuce looking things"- that is an important staple in a tortoise's diet if they can not get fresh clean grass to graze on.

Answer 6

its natural and besides it is nature's cause so dont u worry about it