Basic diet of a sulcata tortoise sulcatas need a high fiber low protein calcium rich diet.
Baby sulcata tortoise diet list.
Along with fresh water the most important staple in your sulcata s diet is grass.
Approved foods for sulcata tortoises grass.
What is the best diet for my african sulcata tortoise.
We suggest 40 of the veggie diet should.
The bulk of their.
Grasses and hay 100 of the time.
Hawkbeards crepis spp plantains plantago spp.
Dandelion taraxacum officianale hawkbits leontodon spp sowthistles sonchus spp hawkweeds pictis spp.
Clovers trifolium spp honeysuckle lonicera periclymenum preferred by t.
Leafy greens can be offered often.
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.
Dandelion prickly pear cactus pads opuntia species.
Recommended tortoise safe plants.
Buffalo grass buchloe dactyloides bermuda grass orchard grass dactylis glomerata big bluestem.
Sulcata tortoises need access to grasses and hay on which to graze.
Weeds leaves and flowers.
They are grazers much like a cow and love to walk all day lazily munching on it.
Various types of nutritious grasses.
Prickly pear cactus opuntia sp pads are affordable food that sulcatas eagerly consume.
Grass should form the bulk of a captive sulcata s diet.