22-12-2011, 03:59 PM | #1 |
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Loose stool
Hi all, I have been feeding my tort with Florette salad these days since I cannot get any weed. I noticed that the faeces aint firm...just very loose, and sometimes it seems there are some poor-digested food...is it because these salad has low fiber and quite high water content?
What should I do? I mix my salad with pre-alpin, and 1-2 days a week I feed them pellet. I managed to find some Campenula and am feeding to them...hope it will help??? Temperature is 32C under the spot, and ~20C around the cold end.
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22-12-2011, 04:01 PM | #2 |
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it's the salad that does it. pre alpin should help if they will eat it
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That's the problem - mine dont eat pre-alpin, I read that someone managed to feed their torts just pre-alpin, how do they do it!!!!
but is it bad for my tort if she keeps eating salad leaves?
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Salad leaves are about 95% water so they get little in the way of nutrition. you can use other stuff like spring greens and curly kale I think for fibre but has to be sparingly. if you mash up some pre alpin with a couple of pellets they will eat them or strawberry juice mixed into the pre alpin. there is still plantain about, excellent for fibre
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You could try the Ultima dried weed mix, you just sprinkle it on to the salad. I've only just started using it but my Ovid seems to love it and I think that it must be good and nutritious.
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Or, mix the P. Alpin pre soaked with the pellet pre soaked, mash it up.
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A good way to firm it up is to feed more roughage. I would suggest you feed your salad leaves in the morning and in the afternoon, some dried weeds, easily obtained from most large pet stores for rabbits. They have a nice mixture. Check the contents first as there are different makes with different weeds in. If you have some porridge oats at home, put about half a teaspoon in a little drop of water, then mix with the dried leaves, make sure you give them a good spray. Oats will help to line the gut and hopefully improve the stool structure. As it is colder, you could also try upping the temperature a degree. Undigested food is usually the result of low temperatures and the tortoise not warming up enough.
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I wondered whether upping the temps might help as well, but you can find plantain throughout thge winter most places. |
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okok that's for all the tips! I will try to get some dried weed/plants for her...maybe i should up the amount of pre-alpin so to force her to take in more!!
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