Cactus for Tortoises

Useful links about feeding tortoises and a video of tortoises eating cacti

Here are some links that may be of interest


For more varieties of cacti please visit our main shop here

Some good info. on maintaining a balanced diet for tortoises, here

More info. on care for cacti can be found here

Identify your prickly pear here

Tortoise Group info sheet on Opuntia here

More recipes for human eating here


See a video of a tortoise eating cactus -

For information on creating a planted vivarium, we can thoroughly recommend the book "Natural Terrariums" by Philip Purser (ISBN 978-0-7938-2891-3) Publisher: TFH Publications (May 1, 2007)