Sulcata tortoise diet
So you want to purchase a healthy captive bred baby african sulcata tortoise for sale, but what does it eat? Well, a lot… but in all seriousness, feeding them properly is key to a healthy pet sulcata tortoise. Feeding them is also SIMPLE. The best things you can feed are simple, easy to find and honestly better for the tortoise then going crazy with all types of veggies and even fruits which you should avoid altogether. Weather you have an ivory sulcata tortoise, and alibino sulcata tortoise or a more common sulcata tortoise for sale, you will need to understand proper feeding. Finding the right sulcata tortoise breeder is also very important so they are used to eating the correct foods.
We feed our African Sulcata tortoises a simple but very high quality diet of Dandelion Greens (usually available at super market or produce market, just ask someone!) Spring mix (a blend of various greens and lettuces normally consisting of an even ratio of:Baby lettuces (baby green romaine lettuce and red romaine lettuce, tango lettuce, baby green oak lettuce and red oak lettuce, lolla rosa, baby green leaf lettuce and red leaf lettuce, baby green butter lettuce and red butter lettuce), baby greens (red swiss chard, mizuna, tatsoi, baby spinach, arugula), frisee and raddichio.
What do I feed a Sulcata tortoise?
Out of all those ingredients, one that we do not like to feed is ROMAINE or any “head” shaped lettuces as they have VERY little nutritional value. Remember, you are what you eat!
We also feed soaked and mushed mazuri tortoise chow, available on our website. Take 6-8 pellets per tortoise per day (based on tortoises under 1 year old, increase 3-5 pellets per year of age) and drop them into a cup of warm water for about 8 minutes or until they are swollen and soft. Some tortoise keepers mush them up, other try to keep them whole and just soften them… we feed this every other day in addition to the greens listed above daily. We sprinkle calcium on the food twice a week or provide tortoise bone (a calcium supplement also known as a cuddlebone).
Sulcatas for sale are some of the largest tortoises on the planet!
Sulcata tortoises are some of the largest tortoises on earth. Only a few species of tortoise are larger then the african spur thigh or african spur thighed tortoise, also known as the African sulcata tortoise. Sulcata tortoises for sale are quite common, and it is important when considering a pet sulcata tortoise to make sure you buy a captive bred baby sulcata tortoise for sale, from an experience sulcata tortoise breeder, also called an african spur thigh tortoise breeder.
Tortoise farms, or even sulcata tortoise farm actually exist and are normally the best places to locate healthy captive bred sulcata tortoises for sale. We offer some of the best lines of Sulcata for sale, including baby sulcata tortoises for sale, juvenile african spur thighed tortoise for sale, as well as ivory sulcata tortoise for sale and even albino sulcata tortoises for sale. Check out all of our large tortoise for sale, as we have over 26 species of tortoise for sale here at TT!
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