15 years

Red-eared Brazilian tortoises generally live for 15 years, but can live up to 35 years if kept properly. During the feeding period, you need to ensure clean water quality and change the water frequently, but when it comes to hibernation or when the weather is cold, you need to adjust the frequency of water changes. Normally, you should feed more high-protein active food, and regularly feed medicated bait to prevent diseases, which can effectively prolong the life span. To make the red-eared Brazilian tortoise live longer, it should be fed more food with high nutritional value, mostly live food, such as red nematodes, earthworms, fish, shrimp, breadworms, etc., and occasionally natural feed, fruits and vegetables, etc., and at the same time, it should be regularly fed with medicated bait to prevent diseases. During the feeding period, you basically need to change the water every ten days or so, and also adjust the water change cycle according to the weather. Usually, when you go into hibernation or when the weather is cold, you can try to reduce the number of water changes.

Brazilian colored turtles can weigh up to 100 grams in 1 year under artificial breeding conditions. The body shape is moderate, the head is small, the muzzle is blunt, the head and neck with yellow and green longitudinal stripes, there is a pair of red patches behind the eyes. The dorsal armor is flattened, with circular green stripes on each shield, and the posterior margin is not serrated. Ventral armor yellowish, with black circular stripes, like copper, dorsal armor, ventral armor connected by bone slits. The limbs are light green with gray-brown longitudinal stripes, and there is abundant webbing between the toes and fingers. The turtle colorful, dorsal armor in red, yellow, white, brown, green, gray, purple and other seven colors regular geometric patterns; ventral plate with yellow, white, black between the oracle character pattern, and each turtle is not the same.

The red-eared tortoise's native range includes much of the southeastern United States and extends into southern Mexico. As a result of the turtle pet trade, pet abandonment, and religious releases, red-eared turtles have been found alive in the wild on all continents except Antarctica, and have been successfully invaded worldwide in Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia, and the Americas outside of their U.S. origin.

According to incomplete statistics, red-eared turtles have been recorded in the wild in 25 countries and territories around the world, including Japan, Chile, South Africa, China, Italy, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, Germany, France, Israel, the United Kingdom, Spain, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil, Costa Rica, Micronesia*** and the United States, New Zealand, Poland, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India , Denmark, Canada. Its breeding success has been recorded in France, Japan, Taiwan, China, Italy, and Spain.

In China, various factors such as pet discards, religious releases, and even law enforcement officers mistakenly releasing red-eared turtles as a protected species, have led to the prevalence of red-eared turtles in the wild in China. According to the existing information and field survey statistics, China's 22 provinces and municipalities of 104 points have red-eared turtle field distribution records, mainly concentrated in the south-central region, the distribution range of the more concentrated population of the city around the waters, has begun to expand to the countryside and nature reserves.

At present, the red-eared turtle's distribution in the wild is as far north as Shenyang City in Liaoning Province, as far south as Wuzhishan City in Hainan Province, as far west as Gaoligong Mountain Nature Reserve in Yunnan Province, and as far east as Daxishan Reservoir in Liaoyang County in Liaoning Province, with a distribution area of about 3 million square kilometers. There are about 34 rivers, 20 lakes and reservoirs with red-eared turtle distribution, including the Nandu River, Wanquan River, Pearl River, Yihe River, Xiangjiang River, Yangtze River, Qiantang River, Minjiang River, Suzhou River, Keelung River, Ziya River, Jin'an River, Hengshui Lake, Taihu Lake, West Lake, Laoshan Reservoir, Xianhu Lake and Guihu Lake for its large number of distribution of waters.