How to raise a beautiful yellow-throated turtle? is it a deep-water turtle?

The yellow-throated water tortoise is a relatively common tortoise with a large size and a yellowish shell, which is easy to distinguish. Yellow-throated water turtles are highly ornamental, so they are very popular and farmed. When the yellow-throated water turtle is in breeding, there are some skills to make it beautiful. Let's learn it together.

How to raise a beautiful yellow-throated turtle

1. When raised indoors, they are usually raised in glass jars or other transparent containers. A few stones should be placed in the container as a place for yellow-throated turtles to go ashore to rest. The water level in the container should not drown the shell of the yellow-throated turtle.

2. The water for raising yellow-throated turtles should be kept clean. Change the water every other day, and the amount of water should not exceed half of the original water volume. Before changing the new water, you should bask in the sun, sterilize and disinfect it, and it should be the same as the original water temperature.

3, usually feed some shrimp, molluscs, insects, a small amount of fresh vegetables, you can also feed turtle food, no matter what, to achieve a balanced nutrition. Food residues and faeces should be cleaned up in a timely manner.

4. When feeding yellow-throated turtles, use a small amount of multiple feeding methods, the feeding time is not more than 10 minutes, the excess food is taken out to prevent the deterioration of water quality caused by corruption. It can also be put separately in another container when feeding, so that the original water quality will not be damaged.

5. Whether the yellow-throated turtle is beautiful or not is related to the hair color of the yellow-throated turtle. We can influence the hair color of the yellow-throated turtle through the environment, sunlight and food, so as to raise a beautiful yellow-throated turtle.

6. Choose a transparent container to raise the environment, and feed more food to the shrimp. You can bask the yellow-throated turtle in the sun when the sun is not strong in the morning and evening, if the container is in a half-shaded and half-sunny position.

7. The yellow-throated water turtle has hibernation, and the indoor temperature is generally higher than 15 ℃. The yellow-throated water turtle cannot hibernate, so we should provide it with a hibernating environment of more than 5 ℃ and less than 10 ℃.

Is the yellow-throated turtle a deep-water turtle?

Yellow throat is not a deep-water turtle and cannot stay in deep water for a long time, so when breeding, the water level must not be too high. At the time of breeding, it is also necessary to provide places such as floating islands where turtles can easily climb up to bask in the sun and rest.

What kind of food should the yellow-throated water turtle eat?

The yellow-throated water turtle is omnivorous and has a wide range of feeding. Animals can be fed with poultry offal, pork and viscera, mixed feed, and plants can be fed with melons, fruits and vegetables. Yellow-throated turtles like to look for food in the water. When feeding, they first crawl close to the food, stare, then stretch their necks, bite the food and swallow it. If the food is too large, tear it up with the help of two front claws before swallowing it.

Disease prevention of yellow-throated water turtle

1. Change the water frequently and brush the box to maintain the water quality. Brush the box with salt every time you change the water, and add a small amount of salt after the change of water (the specific gravity of the salt is based on the fact that the population can not feel salty). Absolutely object to the excessive proportion of salt, or the tortoise "soak in salt water" after being ill. It's like when a person is injured, he doesn't soak the wound with salt water. Tortoise wounds can be washed regularly with salt water, and then put into clean water or dry culture.

2. Each time you change water, you can gently wipe the back and belly of the tortoise with a toothbrush, which can not only clean the tortoise body, but also enhance the interaction between people and turtles. Erythromycin ointment is a good thing. It can also be used to wipe the tortoise shell regularly, which has a wonderful effect on the prevention and control of rotten and rotten armour. In a word, the key to the prevention of pet tortoise disease lies in water quality.

When raising the yellow-throated water turtle, we must pay attention to the management of temperature and water quality, and let it bask in the sun team at the right time. Yellow-throated turtles are not deep-water turtles, so be sure to raise them in the diving ground. Feeding generally eat more miscellaneous, a lot of things can be eaten.