Diet without dried leaves

They have been on dried tortoise hay/grass, with alternate oatmeal, and tortoise mixed diet for 2 months now, granted I “season” their food with some finely crushed gem leaves but amount is really negligible. And they’ve been feeding like mad, and grew quite a bit during that time. So I guess they can live on quite a wide range of diet.

Having said that, I throw them a piece of two dried leaves once in awhile, they would gladly consume them quickly. Maybe they don’t need the dried leaves (especially gem leaves), but they certainly prefer them by my observation.

Big Al is 18g! All 18 were out waiting for food.

It really surprised me that Big Al gained another 2g in just about a week’s time. It must be all the eating they have done recently, finishing everything I throw at them within a few hours since autumn began.