Tips
About Food - articles and tips pertaining to the diet of redfoot tortoises.
About Basic care - tips and suggestions that could make keeping your tortoise eaiser.
Making an “egg salad” from boiled eggs
Variety is key in a redfoot tortoise diet. It makes sense, they go out and explore for food in the wild every day and most likely get a good variation from day to day. It is sort of like tortoise enrichment for captive tortoises to experience food they never have before.
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Finding good food for your tortoises:
I have the pleasure of having a local organic farm. I often go there and pick crops they are growing, as well as stray weeds to feed. The benefit of this is that a farm may offer you their stray dandelions for free, and you have a very low risk that they have ever been treated with pesticides.
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Clean water dishes can prevent a lot of problems. Red foot tortoises commonly defecate in their water dishes. Dirty water can lead to many problems, including harboring of parasites like pin worms. Keeping it clean can be simple if you follow a few steps.
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Red foot tortoises love water! Some people believe that instead of offering a water bowl that soaking once per week is enough. This is not true! Tortoises are capable of going without water for periods of time in the wild, but in captivity it is recommended to water each day.
Full article coming soon!
