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Old 11-05-2011, 09:30 PM   #1
herpderp
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Exclamation Dietary Fibre in the diet of the Herbivorous Tortoise Testudo graeca graeca in Spain:

Hey, I know the Tortoise Trust is not the most popular in the tortoise keeping community but they seem to produce some interesting pieces of research from time to time, some gets posted onto their site and some makes it to their publications.
Recently they have posted an article about the importance of different types of dietary fibre in the diet of the spur thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca graeca). It highlights the shortcomings of supermarket and petshop foods in terms of digestability and nutritional content.
The dicussion section highlights some of the challenges with selecting the food plants chosen by the grazing tortoises due to the conditions the plants are selected under by the tortoise (dried and wetted repeatedly over time) as well as the conditions the plants were grown under (i.e the high calcium carbonate found in the soil in the regions of spain investigated) all cast doubts on the suitability of your typical store bought or self grown tortoise diets.
Interesting stuff to incorporate into your setups however because it seems tortoises in those regions are used to far higher than typical calcium in their diets.

Link to paper http://www.tortoisetrust.org/articles/dietaryfibre.html
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