The feeding habits of aquatic turtles are generally omnivorous. Most semi-aquatic turtles are carnivores. Most terrestrial sea turtles are herbivores.

Common cultured turtles are omnivorous animals, feeding on animal insects, worms, small fish, shrimp, snails, mussels, tender leaves of plants, duckweed, melon skin, wheat grains, rice and weed seeds.

Although turtles eat all kinds of food, they have been fed cheap food with low nutritional value, which may cause malnutrition and must be especially careful.

Turtles need a lot of calcium, so they should be fed calcium-rich food. Recently, a special feed for soft-shelled turtle with balanced nutrition was introduced on the market, which can be safely eaten.

In addition to the above, carp feed and dog food are also favorite foods for turtles. Occasionally feeding some fresh food such as boneless fish, snake meat and mice will definitely win the love of turtles. Feeding only fish and meat slices will cause malnutrition and need to supplement water-soluble nutrients.

Generally, newly bought turtles have weak eating ability and will not prey on live food, so you need to feed them a little at this time and be patient when feeding them. Cut the fresh meat into mung bean size, clamp it with tweezers and slowly reach the front of the turtle's nose. It will smell it carefully before eating, and sometimes its response is so slow that you can't rest assured. Try it a few more times and it will be perfect.

Generally, it is enough to feed one cigarette butt at a time. When you are young, you should feed it three or four times a week to make it adapt to the environment quickly, because it will sleep when it is hungry for a long time, and the turtle who is too young will never wake up when it sleeps, so you should feed it more to prevent it from sleeping. When it grows bigger than a matchbox, it usually eats it by itself. At this time, you can put some small fish and shrimp in the water for it to practice hunting, not too much.

Turtles are distributed almost everywhere in China, but the yield in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is higher. It is also produced in all parts of Guangxi, especially in the southeast and south of Guangxi. Foreign countries are mainly distributed in Japan, South Korea and North Korea.

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Baidu Encyclopedia Entry Tortoise _