Ashton Park Garden Centre

[Petrus]

Originally Posted by Pussygalore

unless you are well read on the variety of greenery needed to make a well balanced diet that provides everything especially during the winter when most resort to salads,cucumber and tomatoes then pellets at least provide the essential items that are missing. Lumpy, pyramidding torts are not just from the pellet diet ! a poor weed/plant diet can be just as harmful along with a lot of other causes.

Couldn't agree more. I think pellets are a God send in the winter. My understanding is that "Complete" doesn;t mean that's all you feed, it means it has all the vitamins and minerals you need and don't need supplements on the the day you give pellets. But I also agree that some people might be misled and only feed pellets.

Anyway, looks a decent place.

[Fred123]

Originally Posted by Pussygalore

unless you are well read on the variety of greenery needed to make a well balanced diet that provides everything especially during the winter when most resort to salads,cucumber and tomatoes then pellets at least provide the essential items that are missing. Lumpy, pyramidding torts are not just from the pellet diet ! a poor weed/plant diet can be just as harmful along with a lot of other causes.

I couldnt agree more, I dont think I said that the only cause of pyramidding was a pellet diet. I simply said, the same as most other people, that at the most it is part of a diet not a complete diet.
Personaly I would never use the stuff, but wouldnt judge anyone else who used it as part of a balanced diet.

[Pussygalore]

I'd always add some greenery simply because you don't want the tort to 'forget' to eat them and naturally in the summer months when hopefully your tort is outside you won't need pellets. However even then if the owner only feeds salads either due to lack of time/lack of imformation etc then again a few pellets will provide what's missing, but I don't think they should be seen as 'an easy option' in the summer to trying to provide a more natural diet for your tort. Mine are outside all summer (my adults) and have good grazing so can find most of their own food plus the easily collected weeds means the variety needed isn't hard to find, even my hatchlings will spend as much time outside as the weather permits. One thing I will say about pellets is that most torts will eat them and I've found that you can make up your own 'mush' with them which can include 'blended/finely chopped weeds', adding them to the soaked pellets, the pellets break down and a nice 'juicy' mash can be produced which should tempt even the tiniest or ill tort, you could then add medicines/wormers etc if they were being used.

[indian star]

feed mine twice a week komodo dandelion pellets. rest is made up of weeds/salad and once a month shredded carrot as a wormer