Tortoise Food

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Tortoise Food Products and Types

Feeding your pet tortoise can be done through a few different methods. Tortoises, like most turtles, are herbivores. This means they will eat plants rather than insects or live animals. As a result of being a grazer you can house food inside the vivarium for a few days depending on what you feed them. We will explore how to learn what tortoise food you should use before launching into more specifics.

Not all tortoises can handle the same food. As a result there are many different types of tortoise food products to make it easier to keep your tortoise healthy. To find out what your tortoise can handle it is best if you will take a look at the tortoise care sheets or guides available to you. These will outline the specific diet of your species to make buying food a lot easier on you. A vet will also be able to tell you what a tortoise requires.

One option is the Exo Terra Tortoise food. This food is made with the essential nutrients your pet is going to require. Furthermore, the nutrients allow for long term health and healthy growth periods. Your tortoise will have a healthy shell as they age when you feed them the Exo Terra food. It is also designed to be digestible and tasty to your reptile. The package this food comes in is going to keep the dry food fresh, thus keep the nutrients locked in. There are a variety of sizes for the food, so start small to see if your tortoise enjoys this food.

You also have a cucumber or fruit flavour tortoise diet food product. These two options use a variety of plant life that is dried and chopped into flakes. It is a holistic tortoise food meant to be completely healthy and organic. The cucumber food product has more vegetables with the cucumber flavour as the most prominent. The fruit tortoise food offers a different taste that most tortoises love. Red Footed and African Spurred Tortoise do very well on the above mentioned food. Horsfield’s and Russian tortoises require this cucumber diet over any of the other options. It is also a good type of food for the Komodo. The fruit and flower holistic treatment is better for the European and Russian tortoises. It does require water to be given as the flakes are dry.

Zoo Med also has a brand of tortoise food products for sale. They are also going to offer a natural food product from flowers and other herbivore delights. The Zoo Med food is in a pellet form with more fibre than your dried food. This is good for the Red Foot, Yellow Foot, and Elongated Tortoises. It will contain such things as Dandelion greens, Yucca, and other plants that these tortoises love. It is also high in protein. You probably know how important the right nutrients are, but if you have questions about the right amount of protein, fibre, and other nutrients do not forget to read the care sheets.