Basic diet of a sulcata tortoise sulcatas need a high fiber low protein calcium rich diet.
Baby sulcata tortoise diet list.
The bulk of their diet should be from pesticide and herbicide free grass and grass cuttings cheatgrass clover edible flowers nasturtium geraniums hibiscus rose petals and shrubs.
Weeds leaves and flowers.
Recommended diet items can be broadly classified into three types.
Prickly pear cactus opuntia sp pads are affordable food that sulcatas eagerly consume.
Approved foods for sulcata tortoises grass.
Clovers trifolium spp honeysuckle lonicera periclymenum preferred by t.
Spring mix a blend of various greens and lettuces normally consisting of an even ratio of baby lettuces baby green romaine lettuce and red romaine lettuce tango lettuce baby green oak lettuce and red oak lettuce lolla rosa baby green leaf lettuce and red leaf lettuce baby green butter lettuce and red butter lettuce baby greens red swiss chard mizuna tatsoi baby spinach arugula frisee and raddichio.
Dandelion prickly pear cactus pads opuntia species.
Strive to provide 75 percent of the tortoises diet from.
Various types of nutritious grasses.
Grass should form the bulk of a captive sulcata s diet.
Dandelion taraxacum officianale hawkbits leontodon spp sowthistles sonchus spp hawkweeds pictis spp.
They are grazers much like a cow and love to walk all day lazily munching on it.
Hawkbeards crepis spp plantains plantago spp.
Along with fresh water the most important staple in your sulcata s diet is grass.