Before letting the turtle hibernate, need to do:
①To ensure that the body is healthy, no disease, and strong (body size less than 5 cm for hibernation can be heated over winter).
2 should ensure that the turtle's body is completely "empty", so as not to cause rectal infarction due to the drop in temperature. Before hibernation, carry out the work of "purging" - a week before the turtle is about to enter hibernation, i.e., the last 5-7 days do not feed any food, let the turtle take a half-hour warm bath every day, so that it can completely empty the intestinal tract.
③The temperature should gradually drop to below 15 degrees, not too fast.
Hibernation is a means for tortoises to adapt to changes in the environment by lowering their metabolism and reducing their energy consumption to survive the cold weather. During this period, turtles hibernate by sinking into the water, burrowing into the soil, or hiding under fallen leaves, so how do you set up a hibernation place for turtles in captivity. In any case, as long as there are two things, humidity and temperature, the turtle can hibernate in captivity. And there are many ways.
Water turtle, Latin name Mauremys mutica, alias: yellow-throated water turtle, stone money turtle, yellow plate turtle, yellow turtle, fragrant turtle, belongs to the phylum Chordata, refers to the good swimmer, refers to a long time in the water life of the turtles, distributed in Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan Island, and the Chinese mainland in the east, the southern part of Hainan, the west to the south of the clouds, etc., commonly found in the hilly terrain semi-mountainous areas of the mountain basin or the It is commonly found in mountain basins in semi-mountainous areas of hilly terrain or in the waters of river valleys, often in small thickets or grasses in the vicinity. The type locality of this species is Zhoushan Islands, Zhejiang Province.