Plants for tortoise terrarium

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Planting some herbs inside of a tortoise habitat seems contra-productive because as a herbivore, a tortoise will try to eat them. Still, I decided to merge useful with eatable and give her the pleasure to feast on real alive plants.

A centerpiece is made of a cactus that has no pokers on it and that one is actually alive, she didn't try to munch on it. Terrarium also had a mini agave, but she ate it. This is perfectly normal. Tortoises in fact like to munch on cactuses.

I also added some native plants to make her happy, because tortoises have extra smell sense and she indeed showed excitement by sunbathing on top of a pile of plants that I provided for her.

She has a grass part for sunbathing made of Helichrysum and Sage which are both native to her natural habitat. I doubt they will survive all the activity in there, but I have no problem in trying.

I will report more about our crawling friend soon.


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It sounds like she has a beautiful place 🙌! Do you have pictures?

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Yes, I have pictures. I had to place a plant she likes very much ( plus she can eat it) into a miniature pot and burry it into a habitat soil so that she does not mow it over. The terrarium is small, but as soon as I planted the greenery she didn't seem to care much. I will publish pictures as soon as my scheduled posts run out. Thank you for voting and dropping by.

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