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JBL Herbil
Complete food for tortoises

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PROTERRA HERBIL
  • Green food pellets with minerals and vitamins for all tortoise species
  • Put pellets directly into food bowl or soak in advance. Adult animals 4-5 feeding per week. Feed juveniles on a daily basis
  • High fibre content with low plant protein content for a slow intestinal passage and ideal digestion of fibre promotes the animals’ health
  • Contains: dried grasses, herbs with natural vitamins and minerals. Without any colourings or preservatives
  • Package contents: 1 water and light-proof tin, sealed for freshness with green food pellets of approx. 7 mm diameter
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Price: 9,08 €
basic price 82.55 EUR / kg
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Price: 20,63 €
basic price 45.84 EUR / kg
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Treat your tortoises with healthy food

Tortoises are gourmets and certainly don’t eat everything. However they enjoy some foods they shouldn’t eat at all. Tomatoes, banana, citrus fruit and flesh are unsuitable. The NEW JBL Herbil’s composition and enrichment with herbs has been redesigned in cooperation with Dr. Petra Kölle from the Munich University. Palatability trials show that tortoises clearly prefer NEW JBL Herbil to all offered foods. Because even if a food is nutritionally perfectly composed it first of all needs to be accepted by the animal! This is very definitely the case with NEW JBL Herbil.

With NEW JBL Herbil your tortoises get a perfect complete food. Of course you may collect green plant food and herbs to supplement the basic nutrition in summer. Tortoises like variety. F

eeding recommendations
Feed several times a day, as much as can be eaten within a short time. For adult animals 4 to 5 feeds are sufficient per week. Feed alone soaked in a little water, or feed together with fresh meadow herbs.

Details

JBL Herbil 250 ml

Art. no.:
7045400
EAN Code:
4014162704542
Weight:
110 g
Size:
250 ml
Volume packaging:
0.43 l
Gross weight:
137.3 g
Net weight:
110 g
Weight factor:
0
Packaging dimensions (l/h/w):
60/120/60 mm

Properties

Animal species: European tortoise, Leopard tortoise, Red-footed tortoise, Tropical tortoise
Animal size: 10 - 50 cm
Animal age group: Medium-sized tortoises
Volume habitat: For all terrariums
Material: You will find details of the materials used under Details & Composition
Feed type: pellets
Colour: green
Dosage: Feed young, growing animals as much JBL Herbil as can be eaten in a short time, several times a day. Adult animals are satisfied with 4 – 5 feeds per week.

Electronic label / illuminant

Mercury: No
Dimmable: No

Technical Data

Height:120 mm
Length:60 mm
Width:60 mm
diameter:60 mm

JBL Herbil 1 l

Art. no.:
7045500
EAN Code:
4014162704559
Weight:
450 g
Size:
1000 ml
Volume packaging:
1.72 l
Gross weight:
528.9 g
Net weight:
450 g
Weight factor:
0
Packaging dimensions (l/h/w):
96/179/96 mm

Properties

Animal species: European tortoise, Leopard tortoise, Red-footed tortoise, Tropical tortoise
Animal size: 10 - 50 cm
Animal age group: Medium-sized tortoises
Volume habitat: For all terrariums
Material: You will find details of the materials used under Details & Composition
Feed type: pellets
Colour: green
Dosage: Feed young, growing animals as much JBL Herbil as can be eaten in a short time, several times a day. Adult animals are satisfied with 4 – 5 feeds per week.

Electronic label / illuminant

Mercury: No
Dimmable: No
Analytical components
Composition
FAQ
Are there any problems when changing over to this new food?

No, because Herbil is a purely natural product with no artificial substances added. The 95% herb and grass content is not only a real treat for your tortoise but also satisfies their natural nutritional requirements.

Please don’t give your animal any “goodies” (which often contain sugar) during the changeover because this could make it difficult for the tortoise to accept its new food. After all even you might prefer steak and chips to a healthy salad, even though both meals taste good.

How long does the food keep after opening?

Please ensure you buy a packaging size suitable for your aquarium/terrarium/pond so that the quantity contained is used up within 4 months. Compare it with a tin of biscuits lying around for several months. When properly stored they are not necessarily soggy, but they are not quite as tasty as when the packet was opened. Therefore it is not advisable to use the food after this time.

The repeated opening and closing of the packaging brings the food into contact with bacteria and humidity over a longer storage period. Thus the quality of the premium food reduces continuously and this influences the vitamin content and the freshness of the food. For the benefit of your animals you always should feed them fresh food.

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In order to keep terrarium pets healthy, it is vital that they are fed in accordance with the needs of their particular species. This is the only way to avoid deficiencies e.g. rickets or illnesses caused by malnutrition (fatty liver, renal gout).

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Terrarium-keeping has experienced an enormous boom in the past twenty years. In the midst of the increasing hustle and bustle of our world, an island of nature in their homes offers many people an opportunity to relax while watching their terrarium pets after a long day of work.

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Inside JBL: videos and exclusive insights into the new food production hall

Take this unique opportunity to accompany us on a tour through our new production area, where up to 35 tons of food is manufactured per day.

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From practical experience: the right substrate for breeding

Our pair of desert iguanas (Diplosauus dorsalis), Martha and Norman, are very much at home in the building that houses the JBL lab, and now we’ve found eggs in a hollow there.

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Our South East UK representative, Frederic Rassineux went to visit some of our customers to show them the New JBL Herbil, complete tortoise food and what a success it was!!

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You’ve probably already asked yourself how food gets put in tins. During our company tours we not only show our visitors how food is manufactured, but also how the tins are filled and sealed.

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In fact we could answer this question with “from all over the world”. After all many interesting terrarium animals also live in Europe. But most of them are protected species.

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Press
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Tortoises boycott Bioland

JBL meant well: the purely plant-based tortoise food JBL Herbil received the coveted Bioland seal because it is made exclusively using Bioland grasses.

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Reference guide (Themeworld)

Feeding

In order to keep your pets healthy, it is vital that they are fed appropriately for their species. This is the only way to protect against deficiencies e.g. rickets or lifestyle-based illnesses (fatty liver, renal gout).

Holiday

Most terrarium animals are so low maintenance that holidays are no problem at all. We will give you some tips on how to easily bridge a holiday season.

The tortoise terrarium

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ShakaAnimalStudio - German
2022-06-17T16:57:11Z

Die Lieblingssticks meiner Schildkröten. Ich muss nur mit der Box rascheln da kommen sie direkt angelaufen, glaube das sagt schon alles ;)

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