My Feeding Schedule for Turtles & Tortoise (Important INFO here!) 

Can we all take a moment to appreciate all the videos Kenan has managed to record himself? Amazing.

RIP Fred! Sending all love to Fred's Family. Was always great seeing you with all your animals.. Thanks Kenan for sharing all Fred's Greatness...

TOM!!!!!!!!! It’s great to hear your voice again. Thank you for allowing Kenan to use both hands again.

I was really hoping you're gonna address Fred Grunwald's passing ...😔 But I'm sure that video is coming, this one might not even be filmed this month, only uploaded now to keep the channel going. Really grateful to both you and Chandler for introducing Fred in our lives, through your channels! He was an amazing man. It's still hard to comprehend he's gone...

Sorry to hear about Fred, Kennan. I thank you for bringing him to many of us. He will be greatly missed.

I just heard about Freds passing. He was such an amazing friend of the channel. I just want pass my condolences to Freds family and friend 💐 Fred will be missed, RIP 😢

As I am reading the comments, I've noticed many people mentioning Fred's passing. This man was such an unbelievable human being, who put in so much hardwork and love into all the animals he had cared for.

Man , I love the plants in the landscape. This place is basically paradise.

Quite happy the dynamic duo is able to be back together finally! Good to hear the back and forth. I'm sure Kenan feels less crazy actually being able to talk to someone... besides the camera haha

Good to have Tom back to help you! I could hear Darwin breathing when you got the close up. So cool! What am I going to do now? Spot clean my Ball Pythons enclosure and give fresh water. Great video Kenan! 🦎🐢❤️🦎🐢

Or wow toms back ... Hi tom ..we have missed you 👍👍👍👍

RIP 🙏🏽🙏🏽to Fred

My condolences to you for the loss of your dear friend Fred. He will be sorely missed. 🙏🏻🙏🏻💕

The Lola head bob like she’s saying “sup?” Is everything 💚💚💚

Its great to see Tom back. Kenan really needed your help this past year. I'm Glad your doing well Tom good to hear your voice again on the channel

Them big guys. I’d be sitting petting them all day they are just to cute

I got my 7 and 9 year old their first tortoise and pet 2 years ago for christmas! We love him so much

Thanks Kenan and Tom never gets old seeing the animals loved watching this video

I personally don’t think the “five minute” rule is a good rule of thumb for herbivorous reptiles, hay eating torts, etc. Pretty much across the animal kingdom, herbivores-and especially grazing herbivores-are gonna be eating constantly. Leafy plants aren’t particularly nutrient or calorie-dense, animals that have adapted to eating them have to eat a LOT of them to stay healthy. Animals that eat hay/vegetation/grass/etc should always have free access to some basic form of that food source, be it a hay bale or a yard full of clean grass. Kenan’s herbivorous and omnivorous torts live outside and have free access to vegetation in their enclosures and the occasional protein snack from the local bug population. But somebody keeping a turtle or tortoise at home should compensate for that lack of available environmental food. IE- I might take away a tort’s pellets or mealworms after 5-10 min, but I wouldn’t take their plate of leafy greens.

The video I want to see is Kenan filming Tom going on the Kamp Kenan tour, & being reintroduced to all the animals. That's what I would like to see.

i LOVE that Guapo and Lola greet people with head nods. It's awesome.

2:25 I LOVE to see hungry tortoises looking up.

I am sure you thought of this but you could screw the tray to a box that is maybe 2 inches off the ground so they don't eat off the floor.

I wish I could have lots of tortoises as they fascinate me but living in Australia means I can’t. I love living through you 💚

Welcome back Tom, we missed you

Best thing in this video is that Tom is back baby !

Thanks for sharing, so sorry to hear about Fred, thank you for introducing us to that amazing man/hero!! I live in Minnesota, don't own any Turtles or Tortoise, due to weather/space requirements, which is why i enjoy watching your channel so much,

Sneak peak at Slinky’s enclosure lol

I was expecting a Fred tribute video today - RIP FRED. So sad.

Love you kenan and its great to hear tom asking questions

Tom had good questions and good point of view for the us. Glad to have some help for the kamp 👍🏼

I,m so happy to here Tom interact with you.

Thank you for showing me what to feed my inherited Sulcata. I am clinging to your videos lately. I am so grateful for every video you put out!

Its nice when tom is there. When he asks questions it helps extract more knowledge that you might other wise think to explain.

Nice to hear your voice again Tom, hope you and Kenan had plenty of fun catching up again 🤗🤗

Im glad Tom is back !

Always entertained. Always educated. Thanks Kenan!

I so enjoy your programs! Glad to see Tom back. I get my reptile fix through your channel and a few others- Snake Discovery, Clint's Reptiles, Chandlers Wild Life, And Dav Kaufman. Without all you great folks out there the world would be a much sadder place! Thank you for what you do!

I’m always a tad bit paranoid about dehydration so I always soak the zoomed pellets before feeding. I do this with any dry pelleted diet I feed. Started it when our torts/turtles were babies and simply never stopped. Gives me peace of mind.

14:36 LOVE the Jurassic Park reference!

as far as reptiles I have a red ear slider, yellow belly slider, 2 ball pythons and 2 leopard geckos I have lots of other animals to take care as well and I really enjoy it and after feeding my 5 horses I like to sit in the pasture and just watch them graze it's best feeling ever

Love the way that Stewart spent the time to TEACH you how to do instead of just coming in and doing it himself. Can’t wait for you to rip out this technique on future builds! :)

Welcome back, Tom! It is fun watching Kenan feed the critters, but it is also difficult sometimes doing it 1 handed while trying to record as well. I only have a Pug dog now, but in my younger yrs I had a Mexican Red-Legged Tarantula & an Old World Scorpion. They were fun to watch eat. They both ate crickets from the pet store. While working at a pet store, I bred the rats & mice for feeding to not only our snakes & lizards, but for sale to other snake & reptile owners. My grandson had a big Paint Turtle someone got from a pond & gave it to him. Eventually he tired of it & we gave it to a Reptile Store.

Kenan, my boys love your channel and bug me all day long about going to visit you and the turtles. Lol I bought my boys 2 sulcatas and they love them. My 5 year old seen 2 Hermann tortoises at the pet store 2 weeks ago and he ask me for money everyday so I give him my change everyday so he can save up to buy some more lol. But man they love your channel. We also live in FL

I love seeing your video pop up, if I don’t I’m watching old ones ❤️❤️

Our 9 torts get mazuri mix mulberry leafs, roses, hibiscus, and lettuce, and we toss in some of the horse and goats alfalfa. lol they love to nibble on that. But right now they are hibernating. (Desert torts tend to do this every winter) and it’s only been a few weeks and I really miss seeing them daily. Cute little buggers. Tfs

Tom's back!! Welcome back! Hope you're doing well

This time of year I feed mine a mix of Mazuri and leafy greens three times per week. During the warm months they mostly eat whatever is in the yard and supplement their diet more sparingly. I am fortunate that mine now live outside year-round.

Such a satisfying video!

I am really lucky I grew up in a family that loved animals. My first reptile was a leopard gecko named spike. I've had several reptiles since then and now I have crested geckos and my first snake! I got a hognose snake and he's my baby. Shh don't tell my dog.

Brian B had garden state tortoise on their podcast 12/10 and they mentioned Fred passing. My deepest condolences to you Kenan, for losing a friend and compatriot. Fred really valued you and the mutual respect was palpable. He had plans for his plans. He never quit moving forward, and he never quit loving reptiles, and he loved sharing that healthy obsession with everyone. I hope his collection is well-stewarded, and I hope he made provisions for his animals. Thank you for all YOU do Kenan.

So great to see Tom back at the kamp w ya 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Once again Tom asks the relevant question . . . .How do you know how much to feed them? The five minute rule is the first insight I have ever heard of. That is an example of leaders not explaining what thinking they use, but don't share, that makes up their decision making.

Well I have a winged, feathered pterodactyl, aka Bird, a Congo African Grey Parrot. She loves her pellets, veggies and a small amount of fruit and nuts, with an occasional treat of a small amount of scrambled egg. I can relate to the feeding schedule, hers is daily, always fresh water. I keep pellets around for her to eat 24/7. She generally eats those first thing in a.m. snacks during day and right before bed. She maintains her weight, keeps beautifully feathered and is quite happy with her food program. Whether it’s a reptile, bird, fish, mammal or whatever, it’s great to have that supervised experience as a child, to learn about the responsibility for another life and the happiness of another creature. A truly good thing for humans to understand that we must be responsible/care for all our environments, ecology, web of life.

I've got an eastern long neck turtle he gets fish,mussels, yabbies & worms. Love your channel it's been great to watch it & your collection grow 😊

Fab Video Kenan! Always love watching your video's. Tortoise's are amazing animals

Clever girl. Hi Tom, welcome back!

TOM!!! Welcome back!

OMG! That hand wave is so Forrest Gump!!!! LOL

It’s great to have Tom back. Kenan I have a leopard gecko and I feed him meal worms, crickets, and rare occasions I’ll get him a pack of horn worms as a treat. Would you ever get some leopard geckos or bearded dragons? I’m sure the kids would love them too.

Tom’s back! Hey buddy!! Yea, shed happens

Great info, Kenan, thank you! 😊

I really love that all your cumulative videos you can see the variety you feed your animals. Its so crucial to have variety and really mammals have this ingrained need to eat every day thing it just doesnt fit for herps. Technically humans dont need food evedyfay either. Its really interesting and important to moderate and get variety for everythjng

Very interesting Kenan thanks 😊

Feeding videos are my favorite !!

Welcome back Tom

Awesome yard is an understatement, it's A paradise!

This was such a great video so much I have learnt that I never knew

Nice to see good old friends back for few days.spe3king of good friends will u do a video about fred ?

so cool to see Tom back again. Awesome video btw :D

And Wooooooooooo Tom is Back💪

Kenan, I am slightly in my cups so excuse me, I just realized a couple of things: 1: You, despite being from the Big Apple, are actually very Australian - I am an Aussie - and 2: You really need to move Tom down to Florida as he really adds to the effect of the vids when filming and asking his questions. You also seem to really come alive when he is there; you are obviously a team.

Tom is so useful!

Dude, y’all are great

That last shot with that sulcata was awesome lol

Welcome back Tom!!!!

Absolutely love the channel. Gotta be honest. I kind of like it better when it is just you filming. Nothing against Tom. Just enjoy that version more.

As you know by now I have a blue tongued skink called Spike. It took us a bit to find out a good feeding frequency and to learn him to eat some variety, as he was a rescue. I now feed him every 3 days. I keep a bag of cut up kitchen scraps from greens that are healthy for skinks in the freezer. He gets about 2 table spoons per meal from that, with about half a table spoon of Edgard Cooper dog food mixed with some insectivore blend. Then he get extra calcium every week, extra vit D every other week and multivitamin every month. And some snacks just whenever mostly once a week.

welcome back tom!

I haven’t had any herps for years, but still a fan. I used to keep local turtles (painted and box turtles) frequently. It was kind of a seasonal thing, keep them during the warmer months and then return them to where they were captured. We had a county park nearby that was loaded with wildlife. The painted turtles I would see again frequently, but box turtles are very elusive. I only remember seeing one of the dozens that we released over years again. I never marked them in anyway, but matched up carapace patterns to photos. I also had red-backed salamanders, pickerel frogs, garter snakes, ringneck snakes, milk snakes and brown snakes seasonally. Purchased pets were some newts (Eartern), Western Painted Turtles, a melanistic Eastern Hognose Snake, Canadian Red-Sided Garter Snakes and a Florida Blue-Striped Garter Snake. Contrary to many peoples experiences, the garter snakes were the animals that I had the longest (one for nearly ten years). I used to rear all the food I fed, whether it be earthworms or shiners or toads for the Hognose. The Milk Snakes we’re not kept very long at all, maybe a week or two. Never was able to get any of them to eat, so they were always returned without a meal. The roads were relatively easy to keep, they are very abundant due to the large amount of aquascapes in the neighborhood. I’d scoop them out as tadpoles and feed them pinhead crickets and ants until they were large enough to eat feeder crickets or mealworms. After getting married, spent less time herping until my boys were old enough. We moved to Orlando briefly and they would ask me to get an anole or two off the patio (they were always the invasive brown ones, so I didn’t feel bad bringing them in as pets. That was over 15 years ago and they lost interest in keeping herps. I plan on retiring in less than ten years, so maybe I’ll pick it up again at that point. It can be a time intensive hobby.😁

Great job man. I'm currently keeping a Asian water monitor (sumbawa) a pair of ackies and a savanna monitor.

Thank you Robert Muldoon...(Bob Peck).

Tom is back 😃💯

oh man, this is my dream job

Getting a cherry head tortoise from Kenan is on my "to do" list!

Keep up the awesome videos 😊

Saw a video concerning Fred, I hope it's not true. I love your friend, and I pray for him. I myself am trying to survive my battle with Cancer, the pain is blinding, but I still fight.

kenan: puts food on floor tortoise: i am gonna go for the yellow bucket

Nice to see Tom again. Or his shoes 😅

Another awesome video

Hey! Tom's back! Alright! Great shots and lens flare! Can't ask for a better camera operator.

What up Tom! lol excellent video!

Sorry to hear about your friend Fred Kenan

My wife and I have a trio of sulcatas that we feed every other day. We alternate between grass pellets and mazuri to fresh veggies every other feeding. They are incredible and I love giving them treats every so often such as the random banana or apple. They will walk for miles to a apple. We also have alligator snappers and a common snappers that we feed Mazuri and tilapia fillets as well as shrimp and chicken gizzard and hearts.

I have a juvenile African spurified tortoise and I feed her Mazuri tortoise food and I give her some cactus pads and some greens and some hay and I give her clean water I have a water bowl where she can walk in and out of I don't over feed her I give her a little bit because it is winter here

I have 2 cats, Smudge and Gibbs, 1 dog, Finn-Stanley, who is my best friend and an umbrella cockatoo. Cats get fed homemade wet food in the morning. They have dry food available all the time and fresh water every day. My dog gets dog food with homemade wet food. He’s picky and only will eat if I sit on the floor with him. My cockatoo eats what ever we do. Tonight he had meatloaf and rice. He also has pellets and sunflower seeds available all the time. He loves fruit smoothies. He likes mashed potatoes. He hates vegetables. He also hates bugs. Screams bloody blue murder if there is a bug on his cage. He’s really a girl. But we were told, when I bought him, that he was a boy. He laid his first egg when he was 25 years old. His/her name is Boo. I bought him/her when he/she was 5 months old. He/she is 28 years old now. I’d like a tortoise.

So sad to hear about Fred 😔 my thoughts are with his family and all who knew him.

I have 1 eastern/3Toed box turtle 1 common musk turtle 2 red ear slider and 2 red foot tortoises I like the flucker mix blend for my aqutics and earth worms and moths when they get in the house. Btw all are housed indoors tortoises murzuri and spring mix veggies and some fruit . my box turtle anything that is a bug I raise mealworms and earth worms pill bugs too

I feed my animals Mon, Wed, Fri as well. Some are fed some food items twice a week which I do on Mon and Fri.

I have a trio of ackies a pair of bearded dragons 4 ball pythons and two african house snakes. The great thing about feeding the lizards is that where I live I can have a colony of dubia roaches so that saves me a ton of money on food for them because the roaches reproduce so fast that I always have roaches to feed them. The snakes are easier tho because they only eat once a week something about the width of their body :) Keeping reptiles keeps me sane.