Arcadia EarthPro Optimised52 – All Natural Tortoise Food – 250g

Arcadia All Natural Tortoise Food

Arcadia Optimised 52 is a wild like diet developed for Testudo species with grasses, weeds, botanicals, vitamins and bee pollen.

Developed For Testudo Tortoises:

• Hermanns Tortoise
• Spur-Thighed Tortoise
• Egyptian Tortoise
• Horsefield Tortoise
• Marginated Tortoise

EarthPro Optimised52 Tortoise Food, a groundbreaking, vet-checked, all-natural approach to feeding tortoises, meticulously designed to mirror their wild diet by exclusively utilising natural ingredients. Unlike many prepared tortoise diets, we refrain from incorporating non-natural fillers such as seed husks, nut shells, maize, soya, and flours.

Tortoises have evolved into opportunistic feeders with a highly herbivorous nature. As exploring species, they graze based on seasonal opportunities. The wild diet of Mediterranean species primarily comprises leafy vegetation, grasses, roots, tubers, and seasonal flowers, with fruits consumed rarely and in season. This diet is naturally high in fiber and low in protein, sodium, and fats. Geophagy, the consumption of soil, plays a crucial role in providing essential minerals and B-group vitamins.

At Arcadia Reptile, we firmly believe that EarthPro Optimised52 stands as the finest and most nutritious pet tortoise diet available, substantiated by independently tested nutritional values. Prepared in the UK through small batch manufacture to ensure freshness, this food contains no artificial preservatives, colours, flavours, or scents. It’s a fresh dried food that can be rehydrated to meet the developmental needs of your tortoise. Elevate your tortoise’s nutrition with the unmatched quality of EarthPro Optimised52.

Optimised52 contains at least 52 species of EU grown grasses and herbs as the base mix

This is a seasonal grow and plant species found in our mix through the seasons can actually reach 60 grasses and herbs per mix. To this base mix of whole plant nutrition, we add a further 10 species of plant matter which include leaves from strawberry, blackberry and raspberry plants. Plantain, nettle, dandelions, marigolds and roses are also added into the mix. In this way we fill the nutritional requirements of Mediterranean species by using a barrage of natural ingredients, many of which are found in the wild habitats of these incredible species.

To add in further nutritional value we have added finely milled Bee Pollen which is vitamin, mineral and amino acid positive, a real superfood. We have also added our full-spectrum Carotenoid complex and our full-spectrum mineral and vitamin complex ReVitaliseD3. This will provide all of the minerals available in the wild diet and in natural balance, with low levels of A, D3 and E suitable for modern reptile care. Optimised52 is high in Calcium, low in phosphorus and with added Magnesium for optimal mineral storage and wellbeing.  We have also included our best selling flower based topper within every pack, EarthPro FlowerBoost. FlowerBoost will add even more variety to the mix and plenty of highly visible colour. Just grab a pinch from the pack and add this on top of your hydrated tile. You can also buy FlowerBoost separately and add in more if you so wish. FlowerBoost is an all-natural mix of whole flowers and petals.

A New Way Of Feeding Tortoises:

A whole new way of feeding, EarthPro-Optimised52 arrives as a pressed tile. Each tile has an average weight of approximately 12.5g* (being an all-natural product weights can vary within batch and seasonality). These tiles contain the whole mix stated as ingredients that have been compressed. Tiles can be fed dry to those animals that enjoy dry plant material and with very large animals as enrichment. Optimsed52 has however been designed to be rehydrated into a nutritious mulch. Each tile should have 12 teaspoons of fresh cold water added. This will increase food and water weight as the plants rehydrate and re-green to near 40g of food, per tile fed. Simply add in the water to the tile in a cup or feeding bowl and wait 5-10 minutes. The tile will start to swell and become quite green. When fully hydrated simply stir the mix and feed. You may add more or less water as you wish, depending on the preferences of your pet. Optimised52 both correctly feeds and hydrates your animal. As always, we must provide fresh clean water for our pets to drink from at all times. We suggest that 1-2 tiles should be fed per day per for up to each 400g of body weight. A grown 1kg active animal could therefore be fed 2-3 tiles per day. This is based on 1-3% of total bodyweight per Kg as dry food. Partial tiles can be fed for young animals, tiles can be cut into quarters with 3 tsp of water added per quarter tile.

As with other highly sentient species Tortoises may require a transition period from the existing food to Optimised52. Those that have been fed for long periods on highly artificially scented pellets may require a few attempts before switching over fully to Optimised52. In our testing almost all animals would eat Optimised52 fully from either the first or second feed. A small number of animals took up to 6 feeds but will have eaten some of the mix as they test it out during this time. Optimised52 does not smell strongly of an artificial attractant, it has a natural sweet grass smell. This may be a new experience for some animals. The existing diet can be added into Optimised52 and decreased through the transition.

Optimised52 is an all-natural EU grown blend of at least 52 species of grasses and herbs, selected to provide optimal nutrition for pet Tortoises. It contains no cheap unnatural bulking agents such as almond nut shells or sunflower seed hulls. It contains no flours or waste material and has no added artificial colours, flavours, scents or preservatives.

Feeding Instructions:

Feed as required! You may choose to feed a whole tile to a younger animal and let it graze during the day, or you may choose to break each tile further and rehydrate accordingly. Each animal will have its own preferences and as caring keepers we tend to keep them towards these preferences. As Optimised52 has no added artificial preservatives you should discard any uneaten rehydrated food daily.

Add 12 teaspoons of fresh cold water to 1 tile of Optimised52 in a cup or feeding bowl and wait 5-10 minutes for the tile to expand.

Feed approximately 1-2 tiles per day based on 400g of body weight, this is based on 1-3% of total bodyweight per kg as dry food.

Ingredients:

Grass and botanical mix average 52 species plus the following: Timothy Hay, Dandelion Leaves, Nettle, Plantain, Strawberry Leaves, Blackberry Leaves, Raspberry Leaves, Red Clover, Rose Flowers, Marigold Flowers, Revitalise D3, Bee Pollen, Probiotics, Amino Acid Complex, Carotenoid Powder, FlowerBoost with Dandelion leaves at 2.5g per 100g

Analysis:

Crude Protein 10%, Crude Fats & Oils 2.6%, Crude Fibres 25.7%, Crude Ash 4.8%, Sodium 0.14%, Moisture <8%, Calcium 0.88%, Phosphorous 0.22%