龜糧跟牧草已成為盾盾的主要食糧，畢竟盾臀龜是應該吃這種高纖低蛋白食物，而盾盾排便量亦有所増加。間中我們會餵牠一些新鮮蔬菜和鮮草，每星期至每兩星期會在牠的食物中灑上一點爬蟲動物鈣粉以提供生長需要（標籤上說應每星期灑鈣粉，但我怕過量會導致結石）。另外，我會定期觸試盾盾殼子的堅硬程度，感受有沒有變化，定期檢查龜龜是一個良好習慣喲！
Tun Tun does well with the Timothy hay + commercial pellets. This high fiber diet is better for her and that is her main diet now. She passed out more waste ever since the diet change too. We still give her some veggies + fresh grass from time to time. We also give her Ca supplement once in a week to once every two weeks to support her growth. I gave less than the recommended amount (once a week) coz it is a balance of healthy growth and stone formation. I just dust her food with tiny amount of Ca powder. Also, form a habbit to feel the hardness of the shell of your tort regularly. You may do that while you soak your tort.
生長過快或過慢均對龜龜不好，生長過快（如給予太多食物）會令龜龜的肝和腎受損，壽命減短等。過慢較少發生，通常主人都是過度餵飼。
曾在一個台灣龜友討論區看到一隻龜龜停止生長，可能是由於主人是夜班工人，故很晚才餵牠和照料牠。網主是一位有經驗龜友，亦未曾遇過這種情況，只好建議早上餵飼和盡量跟隨龜龜的天然習性飼養，最後結果我不清楚。
It is better to have a steadily slow growth instead of fast growth. That is the way they should be. Too fast growing means damage to the tortoises’ liver and kidney. Also shorten their lives.
Growing too slow rarely happens to these pets as they are often overfed by owners. Of course that is not good too. I remember seeing a thread in a Taiwanese forum that an owner complainted that his tort was not growing. That guy fed the tort very late at night since he worked nightshift. Basically a complete change of a tort's habit. I don't know how the tort end up but the host (an experienced tort keeper) suggested the owner to try to follow the tort's natural pattern of life (e.g., feed in the morning) as he had never seen this situation before.
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