How to raise Chinese grass turtle? can Chinese grass turtle be kept dry?

Recently, there are grandparents selling Chinese grass turtles outside some schools. So, what is the Chinese grass turtle? Chinese grass turtle is commonly known as tortoise. Many students like to keep it as a pet, which is also one of the great joys of childhood. However, many students will feed it to death after contact for a period of time. Why is that? What is the correct way to raise Chinese grass turtles? Listen to me tell you slowly.

How to raise Chinese grass turtles

1. Never use tap water to raise a tortoise. If you want to use tap water, put the tap water in the sun for 3 days, or precipitate the tap water, and then feed it with the upper layer water. If you are in trouble, you can buy it mineral water (that's what I am now).

2. Tortoise cylinder, the more you restore the natural state, the better. You don't always have to change big vats, and the turtles feel free to move. The cylinder wall is higher to prevent it from climbing out. There is water and land. The best water depth is 3 times the thickness of the tortoise shell. The bottom of the water can swoop on sand and rain flower stone, and plant several water plants. Raise a few more small fish. Get another land. If you buy a turtle tank, there will be stairs and land. If the ordinary fish tank will put a big stone. Put it where the sun can shine. This is the simplest way to put it. If you have the conditions, you can buy an ultraviolet lamp and put it 30 centimeters high from the turtle box to shine on it for 15 minutes a day for 20 minutes. Buy heating rods when the temperature is low in cold weather, the temperature is 25 degrees.

3. Water quality, if you are diligent, you'd better change the water every day and wash the sand. If you are lazy, buy a filtration system. Even then, it has to be changed once a week. It is important for turtles to change water frequently. Add a little salt to the newly changed water. Don't be too cold. Otherwise they will get a lot of diseases.

4. Food, turtles are omnivores and love meat when they are young. Can feed small fish, shrimp, pig liver, red worm, cockroach and so on. Turtles usually eat in the water. Turtles tend to be vegetarian when they get older. They can eat water plants. You can feed some washed vegetables. If you are too lazy to play with the mess, buy a box of turtle food and eat it slowly. High-quality turtle food is rich in calcium, protein, fiber, fat, vitamin A, B12, C, D3, E. If it is nutritious, it must not be very delicious. The turtles must think so, too. Feed a moderate amount of food, the digestive system of the turtle is not very good. The turtle is too small to feed too big shrimp and so on to help it cut up. When they finish eating, fish out the leftover food.

5. Bask in the sun. When it is warm, you can put it in the sun for about 15 minutes. Be careful not to be exposed to the sun! The sunshine is best at ninety o'clock in the morning and three or four o'clock in the afternoon. Regular exposure to the sun can supplement calcium and kill bacteria in the cracks in its shell.

6. Safety. If you have cats and dogs at home, you should add barbed wire to the turtle tank. Many turtles died under the claws of cats and dogs. The turtle vats should be so high that they can't climb out. Be careful that you can't climb out even if you step on the stone land in the jar. Pay attention to give them a bath every day when you raise them. To prevent death from drought. Be careful not to let them fall when they climb high. Especially those who raise turtles on the balcony must not let them climb out and fall downstairs! It's dangerous!

Hibernation, hibernation is very important to turtles. When the temperature is below 12 degrees, they begin to hibernate. In the north, it probably starts at the end of October to March of the following year. Newborn turtles had better not hibernate in the first year, and weak and sick turtles had better not hibernate.

8. Do not hibernate, young turtles, weak turtles and turtles bought during hibernation should not let them hibernate. Because they don't do the intestinal cleansing before hibernation.

Can Chinese grass turtles be kept dry?

Chinese grass turtles can not be kept dry, but also put a little water, it is best to put a layer of water full of stones, so that they can not soak him, and you can drink some water when you are thirsty. Moreover, the water depth of raising turtles is generally slightly higher than the depth of the back of the tortoise, not too deep, at most not more than 2 times the height of the back of the tortoise. The stone provided allows the turtle to climb up and bask in its back.

Feeding management of Chinese grass turtle

1. The young turtles after coming out of their shells are very delicate and should be raised separately and carefully managed. Generally, a separate cement pool is used, in which land accounts for 1 inch and water accounts for 2. 3. At the same time, properly feed cooked protein, egg yolk, chopped fish, shrimp and other fine feed. In general, young turtles had better spend the winter separately from adult turtles. Most of the methods for young turtles to survive the winter are to put a small wooden plate indoors, with sand 20 to 30 centimeters thick, put the young turtles into the sand, and then sprinkle 0.5 centimeters thick fine yarn on the young turtles, covered with gauze and sprayed with some warm water to survive the winter safely.

2. Adult turtles eat a wide range of food, such as small fish, shrimp, snail, clam meat, vegetables, insects and so on. Usually when the water temperature rises above 15 ℃ and begins to eat. The period from June to September is the feast period, and the food intake begins to decrease in November. When the water temperature drops below 15 ℃, it goes into hibernation. The temperature is relatively low in spring and autumn, and the feeding time is 8: 9 a.m. in the middle of summer, when the turtles are active in the morning and evening, the bait should be at 4: 5 p.m., and the turtles swallow in the water when eating. When the turtle swallows about 4% of its body weight, it is fed every other day. After feeding, it is necessary to clean up the leftover food in time to prevent damage caused by pollution. Change the water frequently and keep the water fresh. The growth of turtles is related to feeding quality, usually feeding animal bait, which can increase the weight by about 50 grams per month.

3. Management of juvenile turtles: young turtles that have just come out of their shells do not have strong disease resistance. In order to improve their disease resistance, 10% normal saline or 1ppm high manganese and potassium water can be used for disinfection. During disinfection, they can not be fed. After 3 days, they can be fed with cooked egg yolk, albumen, or some cooked livestock and poultry blood. After 7 days, they can be moved into a temporary breeding pond. The temporary storage pond is generally a rectangular cement pool of 5m / m 10 square meters, of which the water surface accounts for 2 / m 3, which needs to be disinfected with 10% quicklime before stocking, and the stocking density is about 100 / m 2. Starting to feed on the 4th day after stocking, the table can float on the water with planks or bamboo rafts, and the table generally accounts for about 10% of the total area. The feed should be fine, such as cooked eggs, minced fish and shrimp, etc. The young turtles that came out of their shells can be moved indoors when they are overwintering, and a wooden plate is placed indoors. The back of the plate is evenly sprinkled with 0.5 cm thick fine yarn, and the sand is covered with gauze. Proper amount of warm water can safely survive the winter.

4. The culture of adult turtles: the turtle pond is generally an earth pond with a water depth of 1mm to 1.5m and a dike slope of 1:3. There is a water inlet and outlet in the pond, which is shaded by duckweed or splash. A 0.5m high fence is built around it, and a small island of 1x1.5m is left inside the wall to release sand for turtles to lay eggs. In the case of a cement pool, the depth of the pool is 1 to 1.5 meters, the water depth is about 0.8 meters, and the mud is 20 centimeters deep. There are entrances and exits in the pool, leaving 1 × 1.5 islands in the pond. The grass grows around the island, and sand is released in the middle for turtles to perch and lay eggs. The stocking density of land and cement ponds should not be too large, generally 10 / m (square meters) or so.

Points for attention in raising Chinese grass turtles

1. The main enemies of grass turtles are snakes, water rats, weasels, wild cats and so on. Grass turtles are often active at night in summer, while water rats and weasels also go in and out at night. although grass turtles are protected by hard shells, they are still easy to be bitten to death by enemies. In addition, when the turtle eggs are rotten and deteriorated, they often attract a large number of ants to endanger the eggs and young turtles, which is very disadvantageous to the breeding of turtles. Therefore, we must pay attention to eliminate these enemies, so that the farmed grass turtles get a good ecological environment, in order to facilitate the breeding and growth of grass turtles.

2. Grass turtles can swim well, and many people think that as long as there is a stone or platform above the water surface, the water can be very deep (the water depth is really ornamental, and the water quality is not easy to deteriorate, and can also be mixed with fish and turtles, which I also like very much). However, if the water is relatively deep, the tortoise will have to spend more physical energy to go to the surface to breathe, which will cause excessive physical exertion to the turtle, and for the grass tortoise with poor physique. There is also the possibility of choking and drowning.

3. It is better to leave a small piece of shallow water just over the back. After all, grass turtles like water, and when they are young, the water is deeper than their backs. If you simply raise the water, you can exceed the 1CM of the tortoise shell. If you want to raise the turtle in deep water, you can consider building a "land island" in the water for the turtle to use, forming deep water, shallow water, sand, sun-backed stones, and so on, so that they can come up to rest, breathe, and bask in their shells. This is the ideal conservation environment for turtles.

It turns out that turtles should be raised in this way. Have you learned the above methods? Chinese grass turtles are also precious wealth in nature. Life is precious. Chinese grass turtles also have life. We should learn correct breeding methods to avoid accidents. Do you understand?