Is the elephant tortoise easy to raise? how long can the tortoise live?

Elephant tortoise is a large species of tortoise, which is currently distributed in many countries in the world. The life span of an elephant tortoise is very long, so does everyone know exactly how long it is? Many people like to breed elephant turtles, but they don't know whether this kind of tortoise is easy to raise and need to master some breeding skills. Let's take a look at it.

Is it easy to raise elephant turtles?

Whether the elephant tortoise is easy to raise depends mainly on the individual's breeding method. If the tortoise is raised properly and skillfully, of course it will be easy to raise. If the breeding method is wrong, there will be a lot of problems in breeding, and naturally it will be difficult to raise.

How long can a tortoise live?

The life span of the tortoise is about 30 cents 50 years, and the Australian tortoise belongs to the best side neck, which has a record of 70 years or so.

The breeding method of elephant tortoise

1. Breeding environment: elephant turtles live in water most of the time and like to live in clear water, so the quality of water quality is very important. in addition, the activity of elephant turtles varies with the ambient temperature, and the optimum temperature is 20 ℃-32 ℃, hibernating below 11 ℃ and deep hibernation below 6 ℃. Therefore, in general, as long as the water temperature is not lower than 4 ℃, it can survive the winter safely.

2. Raising baby turtles: young tortoises can be raised in a flat-bottomed container without difficulty. Plastic pots, plastic troughs, glass tanks or boxes and aquariums are all suitable. The water is not too deep, and the depth allows them to swim. In addition, the water temperature that the baby turtles can adapt to is about 23-28 ℃ Celsius. It is particularly important that the turtles can be directly exposed to sunlight by placing the culture box on the balcony or windowsill or irradiating with ultraviolet light. The most important thing is to change the water in a timely manner.

3. Adult turtle breeding: adult turtles need much larger breeding boxes so that they have enough room for movement. Too small breeding boxes will quickly make the tortoise become obese and dull. If it falls into the water on all fours, it will drown because it cannot turn over. In the process of raising, we should pay attention to check whether there is any leakage in the tank every day, and there should be nothing around the box that allows the tortoise to clamp on its body, so as to prevent the tortoise from escaping and dying in the hot sun in the open air.

Common diseases and prevention of elephant tortoise

1. Skin rot: first of all, remove the rotten epidermis and dead skin from the affected area, and apply chlortetracycline eye ointment once a day. If the turtles eat by themselves, you can add oxytetracycline powder to the bait; if the turtles have stopped eating, they can be fed with oxytetracycline at the dosage of 1 gram per kilogram of turtles, and then the diseased turtles will be quarantined. Do not put water to feed, so as not to aggravate the disease. The turtles are reared in the pond after recovery.

2. Scabies: first of all, isolate the sick turtles, squeeze out all the contents of the scabies, wipe the affected area with iodine, apply oxytetracycline powder, and then insert cotton balls coated with oxytetracycline or chlortetracycline eye ointment into the affected area. Then put the sick turtles into shallow water, feed the turtles that have stopped eating, and mix the feed with antibiotics.

3. Nutritional deficiency osteomalacia: add appropriate amount of shrimp shell powder, shell powder, calcium tablets, vitamin D and multivitamins to the feed. The bait should be matched with animals and plants. And let the turtles be exposed to more sunlight.

4. Proteus Morgan: immediately after the onset of isolation treatment, intramuscular injection of chloramphenicol, streptomycin and other drugs, oral or immersion treatment has no effect, but at present individuals can not be treated by injection, so it is difficult for turtles with this symptom to survive.

In fact, elephant turtles are easy to breed as long as they master the skills. In breeding, it is necessary to strengthen the management of temperature, and timely feeding and water change are needed. Only by doing these well can we ensure the growth of the tortoise and make the tortoise live longer.