05-01-2011, 09:28 PM | #1 |
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Komodo Complete?
The Komodo pellets are styled as "Complete". Could you feed these on their own, all year round?
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05-01-2011, 09:32 PM | #2 |
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Ed does, and a few others do I fed twice three times a week
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05-01-2011, 09:54 PM | #3 |
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I always feed mine with salad/weeds
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So you give pellets and weeds together? Interesting. What I mean is, would it be safe to give just pellets all of the time?
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05-01-2011, 10:07 PM | #5 |
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Yeah it's a complete diet maybe pm ed and ask him how he feeds it
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I think Ed feeds greens as well and not pellets every day. I'm not 100% sure on that but he has said about not overfeeding with pellets. I suppose it can be done if you know how much to feed
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Because in this country some weed's grow freely and bedding plant's thrive quite well from spring to Autumn might as well feed them along with a pellet diet. Complete is a bold claim, but i think it could be done, but i would not want to.
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There is one caution when using some of the grain-based diets. There are some diets that seem to be very nutritious. When fed to a Russian tortoise in excessive amounts, it can lead to very rapid growth. Whether this is a good or bed thing is yet another topic of much debate, but it can be controlled by reducing the amount of food given. If any of these diets are used in feeding your Russian tortoise, you should limit offering it to once or twice a week. Russian Tortoises, E. J. Pirog |
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He also states variety is the key - as varied as diet as possible for nutritional deficiencies to be virtually eliminated
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06-01-2011, 08:15 AM | #10 |
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Assuming though your tort goes out in the summer (like they should) then there's so much other foods around that you shouldn't need to feed pellets etc. However I think they are good in the winter months alongside greens, if you stopped feeding any greenery then the torts might get to fussy to eat them again and only eat the pellets. There have been several posts about that where torts won't eat anything but pellets so surely its good to keep feeding a variety of greens as well. Ed has to feed all year round as he has so many torts and I'd imagine they'd eat everything in the garden but the average tort would find plenty to forage for in the summer
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