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Select the food, soaker, and loose leaf/flower to make a gel for your herbivorous reptile pet. The Gel Kit includes enough agar agar for the ingredients you select. Cooking instructions are included in every kit.
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Buy some Purina Mills organic layer crumbles now. Where did I ever even get the idea to feed chicken food to tortoises? Kay Booth, it was her idea. I saw Kay speak at conferences a few times regarding her long history of successful desert tortoise breeding. Kay wrote the book “Forty years with tortoises”, a […]
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I find I don’t like labeling any specific husbandry system/method as “best”, as you may find a sticking point and discount the entirety of the narrative. I would tend to stick with ‘optimal for me to provide optimal care’ as it may be appropriate, and more in line with my own diligence to complete or continue a […]
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I ran a promotion of http://www.tortoiseforum.com in which volunteers would get the Gel Kit, make it and show a video of the making and feeding of the resulting gel. The links are from posted videos of those that made the gels. All gel makers had great merits to the effort and I learned much. That promotion, now over, […]
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Hi, I use all the products I sell, all of them. To increase day to day variety I use a few in multiple ways. I moisten all the foods (ZooMed Grassland and Forest Tortoise Foods, and Purina Mills Organic Layer Crumbles) with plain water, and on other days I use one of the soakers. The soakers include Cactus Chips, Hibiscus, […]
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That PDF is a collection of data on what is in the diet items sold at Kapidolo Farms. The left side is the item name, the middle array of numbers is the ‘as reported’ values. The right side array of values is normalized, so you can see them in the same frame of reference, that […]
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Hey folks, this is well edited version of a talk I gave at Herpeton 2019. I have to say, I sound like someone I don’t like listening to, my voice is very monotone. I was a bit nervous/apprehensive at this venue. My two talks at TTPG had a better more relaxed flow, but are not […]
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One, 40 Watt Vivarium Electronics Radiant Heat Panel 
