What is the function of the turtle's tail? What kind of food do you usually eat?

Tortoise is also called grass turtle, mountain turtle, mud turtle, is a common turtle animals. Tortoise is the oldest reptile, with a hard shell, when attacked, the head, tail, limbs retracted into the shell inside. Tortoises are distributed in most parts of China, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Let's take a look at what the turtle tail does. What kind of food do you usually eat?

What is the role of the turtle tail?

Turtle tail role is relatively large, although short, but can maintain the balance of the body when crawling, grasp the direction of crawling, just like the rudder, plays a guiding role.

The turtle's tail is also a place for waste.

The reproductive part of the turtle's tail plays a decisive role in mating. Tortoises usually agree to mate before moving their tails, and if they disagree, their tails will not move.

Tortoise tail is also a good tool to distinguish between male and female. Male turtles have a longer tail and a thicker base, like an acute triangle. Female tortoises have shorter tails and a small base, mainly strip-shaped.

Tortoise tail will also have the phenomenon of broken tail, but mostly because of the high density of breeding, tortoises bite each other, there is a broken tail. Tail broken tail may also be caused by poor water quality infection broken tail, excessive drying broken tail caused by insufficient blood supply to the slender part of the tail caused by necrosis broken tail.

If the turtle is found to have a broken tail, it is necessary to disinfect it with iodophor, and then apply erythromycin cream. Take a bath two or three times a day for about ten minutes at a time. Bathing time to feed, adhere to half a month or so, it is best to adhere to the tail after the growth of new skin and then normal feeding.

What food do turtles usually eat?

What turtles eat depends on what species you breed to choose the right food.

According to the living environment of turtles, they can be divided into five types: terrestrial turtles, semi-aquatic turtles, aquatic turtles, marine turtles and benthic turtles.

Common breeding turtles are generally omnivorous animals, usually eating insects, worms, fish, shrimp, snails, mussels, duckweed, melon skin, plant tender leaves, rice, wheat, weed seeds and so on.

Aquatic turtles are omnivorous, semi-aquatic turtles are mostly meat-based, terrestrial turtles are mostly herbivorous.

If you want your turtle to grow fast, you must reasonably match the food you feed, such as animal food, small fish and shrimp, with some food vegetables and tender leaves, so that you can achieve balanced nutrition, comprehensive development, and natural growth faster.

The above is about the role of the turtle tail, generally eat what food is the main issue of the introduction, I hope you have some help.