1. optional articles: pet turtles mainly include Mississippi red-eared turtle, yellow-throated water turtle, Burmese tortoise, crocodile turtle, etc. The most common and only species I have ever raised is Mississippi red-eared turtle, which is beautiful in color, moderate in individual size and easy to raise, so I recommend you to buy this kind of turtle. Yellow-throated turtles are big and ugly, and are generally used to cultivate green turtles. Burmese tortoises are rare, and their habits are different from those of water turtles. Therefore, if they are kept in water, they will die. When buying turtles, you must ask whether they are tortoises or water turtles, so as not to be cheated by profiteers. As for crocodile turtles, their appearance is more individual, but they are fierce, so be careful to hurt you after raising them.
2. Daily life: It is also very important for a turtle to set up a new home for it, because someone raised the turtle in a fish tank and drowned it. Don't laugh, it's true. First of all, the Mississippi red-eared turtle is a reptile, not a fish. It takes oxygen directly from the air, not from the water, so the new home you prepare for it should consider its breathing convenience. That kind of deep fish tank is not suitable. Especially when the turtle is filled with water, it has to swim very hard to the surface of the water and stick its head out for air. After a long time, it will drown if it is physically weak. Moreover, this fish tank is long but narrow, which is not conducive to turtle movement. Because its activity radius is not large, it can use the spittoon-shaped round fish tank that keeps goldfish, but the mouth of this fish tank is smaller, which is not conducive to observing and teasing turtles. The small basin is also quite good. I use the glass set used in the chemistry laboratory. Put a stone in the middle of the fish tank, which is for turtles to rest in the sun, because turtles can't always soak in water, otherwise their health will be seriously affected, and even their shells will rot! The size of the stone should be larger than that of the tortoise, accounting for about one sixth of the fish tank area, and the height should be slightly higher than that of two turtles piled up. The top should be flat, of course, water should be added in the fish tank, and the water surface should be slightly lower than the stone surface. Because the tortoise doesn't breathe in the water, the requirements for water are far below the standard of fish farming, as long as the water is not too turbid and smelly, the fish tank should not be placed in a corner, bathroom and other dark places, and it is best to put it in a quiet place where the sun can shine.
3. Diet: What do turtles eat? Many people buy "special turtle food" recommended by profiteers who sell pets. When they go back, they find that turtles don't like to eat or even don't eat at all. In fact, those so-called "turtle food" are basically cheating money. The profiteers only sell you the garbage that turtles don't eat for the sake of making money. They are eager to buy another one as soon as you are dead, so don't buy the so-called "turtle" recommended by profiteers when buying turtles. Sisibi red-eared turtle mainly eats meat, such as small fish, shrimp, loach, earthworms, insects, etc. I often give it a snack when I kill flies. The newly bought turtle is generally weak in eating ability and can't prey on live food, so you need to feed it a little bit at this time. Be patient when feeding it. Cut the fresh meat into mung beans, hold it with tweezers and slowly reach it in front of the turtle's nose. It will smell it carefully before eating. Practice makes perfect. Generally, it's 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 you are hungry for a long time, and a turtle that is too young will often not wake up when it sleeps, so you should feed it more to avoid it from sleeping. When it is bigger than a matchbox, it will usually eat by itself. At this time, it can put some small ones. Don't put too much, or it will kill a lot but won't eat, so the water will smell bad as long as it takes at most one day, and the same is true for feeding meat. Don't waste it, and don't feed it as much as it can, otherwise it will break down. My turtle used to hold its head and limbs back, which is very funny. I even vomited several times, which shows how worthless turtle is! Feeding too much will make the turtle grow too fast. When it grows up, it will not be fun and cute at all, unless you keep it for eating, hehe! I have a friend who bought a turtle with me. As a result, I fed it too much. In less than two years, it grew to the size of a bowl. The patterns on my body were all gone, and it was ugly. It also made a wheezing sound, like a dinosaur. When I was that big, I could already eat a washbasin loach in a week, which shows its horror. So when I grow up, I can feed it once a week. It is best to feed some small fish to make its shell grow harder.
4. Daily life: Turtles will encounter some special physiological phenomena in their growth, which will have a great impact if they are not handled properly, among which molting is the one that impressed me the most.
Tortoise and snake are close relatives, so they will shed their skin, but unlike snakes, tortoise scales will also fall off! ! My turtle molted when he was about four years old. At that time, there was no digital camera, so I didn't record this strange appearance. What I want to warn you here is that you don't help it artificially in the process of molting, and it will take care of itself. I just don't know that "helping" it has caused lifelong damage to it. I apologize to the poor turtle here. Here, I will carefully introduce what it looks like when your turtle molts.
1.Food
Although turtles eat all kinds of food, they have been feeding cheap food with low nutritional value, which may cause malnutrition and must be especially careful. Turtles need a lot of calcium and should be fed foods containing a lot of calcium. Recently, a special feed for turtles with balanced nutrition was introduced on the market, which can be safely eaten. In addition, carp feed and dog food are also very suitable foods. Occasionally feeding some fresh food such as boneless fish, snake meat and mice will surely win the love of turtles. Feeding only fish and sliced meat will cause malnutrition, and water-soluble nutrients need to be added. What is described above is the food provided for turtles who often inhabit the water, such as tortoises who don't go into the water and like plant food, and are not suitable for artificial feed. Generally, leafy vegetables, cabbage, carrots and other vegetables can be used to feed with nutrients. In order to use the feed of nine official birds to feed.
2. Cage
Aquatic turtles can be raised in containers that can hold water, such as sinks. The turtle's actual size is larger than it looks, and it takes a lot of exercise, so it needs a bigger cage. On average, the sink with a side length of 60 cm is still too small, so it is best to use the storage box for clothes to raise it.
3. Others
Turtles don't irradiate ultraviolet rays, and they can't use calcium either. Compared with lizards, the facilities to prevent turtles from escaping are relatively simple. As long as water supply facilities are provided and there is a cool place to rest, heatstroke is not easy to occur, and the way of sunbathing is relatively simple. If the calcium intake of young turtles is insufficient, the turtle shell will easily become soft; Insufficient intake of vitamin A may cause eyes to turn white. When the above phenomenon occurs, in addition to the problem of insufficient vitamin A and calcium, it may also involve long-term feeding of low-nutrient food, insufficient ultraviolet rays and other problems, which may be due to mistakes in feeding methods. We must provide balanced food with care, sunbathe with sun lamps, etc., and completely change the feeding environment.
Common diseases
Crustal diseases of aquatic turtles
The shell of artificially raised aquatic turtles may have ulcers. Although they are all crustacean diseases, the types of pathogens are different due to different symptoms. Gram negative bacteria. Gram positive bacteria. Symptoms include shell peeling, pigmentation, ulcer, quadriplegia, paw shedding, visceral necrosis and so on. Crawfish, snakes, sea maggots and other animals used as feed, as well as soil and polluted water, may be the sources of infection. Bacteria enter the body through grazed wounds. During the treatment, medicinal bath was used and appropriate antibiotics were applied to the whole body. However, all kinds of turtles are allergic to certain antibiotics, so special attention should be paid when using them.
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