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Review on 🐒 Rep-Cal 12.5-Ounce Tortoise Food (SRP00806) - Optimal Choice for Your Tortoise's Nutrition by Russ Mashlan

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Good backup source of nutrition

Although my Russian loves to eat her usual mix of fresh veggies and herbs, I sometimes add this to her feed mix if I like the fresh veggies and the Running out of herbs or available to give her as an alternative to food in the hope that the variety offered will give her some additional positive nutritional value different from what I would normally feed her. I know she prefers fresh green mix to processed turtle chow, but she will eat it. I love that it offers a variety of fruits and veggies than I usually feed her which is quick, convenient and ensures I never run out of food for her along with adding some nutrients, vitamins etc to the mix they normally didn't get. These are small, colourful, pea-sized variations of fruit and vegetables. They are hard so I soak them in water first to soften them and then give the soft food to my turtle to eat. I start with about an eighth cup, which I only half fill (I don't fill the full 1/8 cup with food; then I fill the eight-cup container with water, just covering it to the brim). Peas, not to the brim of the container. The peas will grow larger after absorbing the added water. Then I will put the moistened food in their turtle food bowl and feed them. To be honest, this isn't their #1 favorite food. However, as a backup or alternative, this food has certainly proven itself more than once as "the food guaranteed to be fed regularly" (rather than waiting until I'm off one recovered from an unexpected illness or went there). at the grocery store to buy fresh vegetables that she prefers in the diet). looks fresh, vacuum packed, sealed, plastic container with reusable screw cap.

Pros
  • Very good value for money
Cons
  • Incredible piggy bank