Snappers are aquatic omnivores, mainly feeding on animal bait. The young turtle mainly feeds on aquatic insects, earthworms, tadpoles, shrimps, etc. The adult turtle usually feeds on mollusks such as snails, clams, fish, shrimps, and animal carcasses, and sometimes also eats vegetables, fruits, grains, and other plant feeds. When turtle is in a hungry state, it will eat its own kind, so it is important to make sure that there is enough feed when breeding turtle.

One, what is the favorite bait of turtle

1, turtle is an aquatic omnivore, likes to eat animal bait. Juvenile softshell turtles tend to feed on aquatic insects, water earthworms, tadpoles, shrimp, etc., and become softshell turtles usually feed on snails, clams and other mollusks, fish, shrimp and animal carcasses, and sometimes vegetables, fruits, grains, and other plant feeds (e.g., sugar beets, barley, wheat, soybeans, infinite number of packages, pumpkins, corn, sorghum, etc.). When breeding, you can use silkworm pupae, fly maggots, artificially cultured earthworms, and slaughterhouse scraps to feed the snapper.

2, snappers are fierce and aggressive by nature, and often appear to hold strong and weak phenomenon between groups, once the lack of food, and even cannibalism of their own kind, so the breeding of snappers, must ensure that the feed is sufficient. The amount of feeding to each feeding after the food, 1-1.5 hours or so eat up is appropriate.

Two, snappers are usually active at night or during the day

1, Activity Time

(1) Snappers are usually foraging early in the morning as well as in the evening. Because snappers are more timid by nature, foraging is generally selected in the less disturbed time period, while the day and night there will be some infested animals out of the activities, affecting the snappers to eat.

(2) If it is artificial breeding, generally feeding before sunrise and sunset.

2, habits

(1) snappers in the calm daytime, like to lie on the sunny shore sunbathing, the use of ultraviolet rays to kill the body surface of the germs, thus promoting the healing of wounds, but also can raise the body temperature, promote food digestion.

(2) Snappers like a quiet living environment, and will dive underwater as soon as they are frightened.

(3)The snapper mainly relies on the lungs to breathe, when the water temperature is lower than 15 ° C, dive to the bottom of the mud for hibernation, at this time, mainly rely on the throat of the gill-like tissues and other auxiliary respiratory organs to breathe.

(4) Snappers like a clean living environment and are afraid of dirt.