Tortoise Diet

Video Transcript

"Okay. The next thing we're going to talk about here is the proper diet for your tortoise. Now, tortoises are for the most part obligated vegetarians. As you can see, this guy is going to like anything that's a dark, leafy green. We're looking for things like kale, dandelion greens, romaine lettuces. Stay away from iceberg because they have no nutritional value. We want something that's deep green, and red and looks nice and lush, okay. They do need a diet that is high in fiber, high in calcium, and low in protein. Okay. Other good treats are things like timothy grass, or alfalfa hay. Wheatgrass works well works as well. And keep a varied diet, don't keep giving them the same greens over and over again. You want to give them a variety of things to choose from. And in fact, some people find that it works very well to do small piles of the same types of greens throughout the enclosure. What that will do is stimulate a very natural feeding response for them. They tend to wander from bush to bush, picking and eating what they desire. The occasional fruit isn't harmful, but don't overdo it. Every so often maybe a little bit of strawberry or a little bit of some other type of berry but be very stingy with it as we don't want to be unhealthy with the tortoise."