Mazuri Tortoise Diet
Food so delicious your tortoise will come running. Put your mealtime worries behind you – our pellets contain the balanced nutrition your tortoises need to support eye, skin and GI tract health, and normal growth. With a flavor your tortoise will love, you know they’ll be healthy and happy.
Best Fed To: Mazuri Tortoise food is best for tropical and omnivorous tortoises, such as the Burmese or Indian Star Tortoise, Elongated Tortoise, Red-footed Tortoise, Adult Box Turtles and Wood Turtles.
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Features
- Watch your pet thrive with wholesome nutrition. Plus, this tortoise feed contains no artificial colors.
- Support GI tract health. High-fiber pellets and grass-based hay help avoid loose stools.
- Use for tropical and omnivorous tortoise.  A balanced diet intended for tropical and omnivorous tortoises.
Product Form:Â Â Extruded pellet:Â 1/2" x 3/4" length.
Product Size:Â Â 25 lb. net weight paper sack.
- Watch your pet thrive with wholesome nutrition. Plus, this tortoise feed contains no artificial colors.
- Support GI tract health. High-fiber pellets and grass-based hay help avoid loose stools.
- Use for tropical and omnivorous tortoise.  A balanced diet intended for tropical and omnivorous tortoises.
Ingredients
Ground soybean hulls, ground corn, dehulled soybean meal, ground oats, wheat middlings, cane molasses, dehydrated alfalfa meal, wheat germ, dicalcium phosphate, soybean oil, brewers dried yeast, calcium carbonate, salt, dl-methionine, choline chloride, pyridoxine hydrochloride, d-alpha tocopheryl acetate (form of vitamin E), biotin, cholecalciferol, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K), calcium pantothenate, vitamin A acetate, folic acid, riboflavin, preserved with mixed tocopherols, rosemary extract, nicotinic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, thiamine mononitrate, citric acid, l-lysine, manganous oxide, zinc oxide, ferrous carbonate, copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite, cobalt carbonate.
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude protein not less than
Crude fat not less than
Crude fiber not more than
Moisture not more than
Ash not more than
15.0%
3.0%
18.0%
12.0%
8.0%
| Crude protein not less than Crude fat not less than Crude fiber not more than Moisture not more than Ash not more than |
15.0% 3.0% 18.0% 12.0% 8.0% |
Feeding
- Feed approximately 2-4% of body weight.
- It is not necessary to moisten pellets with water, though it may help acclimate animals to the diet.
- Feed consumption will vary with environmental temperatures, activity and lifestage.
- Provide good quality grass hay or browse.
- If desired, feed fresh fruits and vegetables.
- At most 5% fruit and 20% vegetables by weight of total diet.
- Always provide animal with plenty of fresh, clean water. Proper humidity levels are also critical for
health and proper growth of herbivorous reptiles.*
*Relevant research information:
Wiesner, C.S. and C. Iben, 2003. Influence of environmental humidity and dietary protein on pyramidal growth of carapaces in African spurred tortoises (Geochelone sulcate). JAPAN. 87:66-74.
- Feed approximately 2-4% of body weight.
- It is not necessary to moisten pellets with water, though it may help acclimate animals to the diet.
- Feed consumption will vary with environmental temperatures, activity and lifestage.
- Provide good quality grass hay or browse.
- If desired, feed fresh fruits and vegetables.
- At most 5% fruit and 20% vegetables by weight of total diet.
- Always provide animal with plenty of fresh, clean water. Proper humidity levels are also critical for health and proper growth of herbivorous reptiles.*