Soft-shelled turtle is a reptile of Trionychidae. Turtle is a kind of temperature-changing animal, and it is very sensitive to the change of ambient temperature. When the outside temperature drops below 15℃, the soft-shelled turtle stops eating and hibernates in the bottom sediments (usually from 10 to April of the following year), and the hibernation period lasts for half a year.

Therefore, under natural conditions, soft-shelled turtles grow slowly, generally only about100g a year. In order to speed up the growth of soft-shelled turtle, heating measures are often used in artificial breeding to break the hibernation habit of soft-shelled turtle and speed up the growth.

Living habits of soft-shelled turtle.

Turtles like to inhabit rivers, lakes, reservoirs, ponds and other clean waters. In calm days, it often lies on the sunny shore to bask in the sun, uses ultraviolet rays in the sun to kill pathogenic bacteria on the body surface, promotes the healing of the injured body surface, and raises the body temperature and promotes food digestion by drying the back. Turtle is very timid, sensitive to the sound of the surrounding environment and the movement of objects, and dives into the water at the slightest sign of trouble.