Re: substrate for sulcata

Posted by Giovanni on August 18, 2000 at 05:37:52:

In Reply to: substrate for sulcata posted by Jessy on August 18, 2000 at 00:51:20:

You make vaild points. Somethings your have to think about when you have "juvenile" torts is that the 1st couple of years they need alot of nurturing just like a baby, so you want to have as much preventative maintenance on your side as possible, and keeping them from consuming large amounts of sand is a good one. You have an animal that by design spends the better part of its life walking and walking and walking (I've never seen a more active tort)and you have him in a cage (which isn't the wild)with the same things around them day in day out. The tort will knock food off the dish, into the sand, sand on food, food in tort, sand in tort...Every day. So you see, as much as I agree that the sand looks great, I've tried everything with my juvenile in the past and have either gone back to rabbit pellets or finely chopped "orchard grass hay" as a subtrate. Remeber, in the wild they aren't eating off the dirt exclusively everyday.

Ciao'

Giovanni

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: You make vaild points. Somethings your have to think about when you have "juvenile" torts is that the 1st couple of years they need alot of nurturing just like a baby, so you want to have as much preventative maintenance on your side as possible, and keeping them from consuming large amounts of sand is a good one. You have an animal that by design spends the better part of its life walking and walking and walking (I've never seen a more active tort)and you have him in a cage (which isn't the wild)with the same things around them day in day out. The tort will knock food off the dish, into the sand, sand on food, food in tort, sand in tort...Every day. So you see, as much as I agree that the sand looks great, I've tried everything with my juvenile in the past and have either gone back to rabbit pellets or finely chopped "orchard grass hay" as a subtrate. Remeber, in the wild they aren't eating off the dirt exclusively everyday. : Ciao' : Giovanni

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