Feeding and Nutrition :: I'm sprinkling Rep-Cal's Herptivite on Repto-Min food sticks

[happycamper]

Awesome!

[Love of Animals]

Great one, veggie down. If you feed them healthy, that could cut down on expense in the long run. Animals an be frustrating and expensive. I just recently moved and I had a big heavy bin in my porch full of cleaning supplies. I put my dogs in the enclosed porch when I leave because who knows what they'll get into. After a long day of being at the doctors for my sinus infection, then hours at the mechanic to find out my car needs repairs I can't afford. I came home to find out my dogs ate a package of mouse poison that was in that cleaning supply box. It was a big rubber maid bin. They had to dig down deep to find it and that box was packed to the brim. Now I'm off to the emergency vet for a $700.00 dollar bill I couldn't afford. Oh well there went the shocks my car needed. My car needs other things as well. So now I say my dogs ate my shocks. Dogs are ok but they really do have poor timing.

[Caphits]

Foods a turtle should have:

1. Reptomin. (or equivalent)
2. Red or greeen leaf lettuce. It costs about $1 at the grocery store. It's not like you have to go out of your way to get it. It lasts at least a week in the fridge, maybe longer! I throw in about half a leaf every day.

Kind of optional:
3. Cuttlebone. This one is probably the biggest pain. You find it in the bird section at petco/petsmart. You have to take the hard part off. And to answer your question, no, they don't "make" it without a backing. It is the bone from the cuttlefish, it isn't some man made contraption to annoy us and keep us away from the softer calcium inside. It's a great calcium supplement, and its pretty cheap too! Break it up into head sized chunks for your turtle.

Things a turtle doesn't need:
1. A companion.
2. Shrimp.
3. Vitamin supplement. They get all they need from the reptomin (except vitamin D, which is made by themselves when they bask).

Good luck on your turtle adventure.

[Tasha2455]

Have you decided to try out any other greens? My RES Tut despises greens but he too likes the carrots and broccoli is about the only green he likes. The cuttlebone you can find pretty cheap and Tut loved that! Ripped chunks out as though it is steak.