How to cultivate a grass turtle into an ink turtle

For turtle lovers, it is very rare to raise a black ink turtle, and the problem of how grass turtles grow into ink turtles also troubles many novice turtle breeders. Let's listen to the editor of Tuliu.com.

How do grass turtles become ink turtles?

First of all, to choose a large, dark male grass turtle, and then give sufficient nutrition and adequate growth environment, after more than 5 years of normal development, it is very likely to become a black turtle. However, the transformation of grass turtles into ink turtles is mainly caused by hormones in the body, and there is no 100% guarantee that they will melt.

In addition, the male grass begins to change color, starting with the eyes, then the pattern on the neck slowly fades and blackens, and finally the carapace blackens (usually the back armour goes black first, and the belly armour goes black later).

What do ink turtles eat?

Ink turtles like to eat all kinds of food feed, fish, shrimp, Loach, pork and so on. It is said that they sometimes eat plant feed, depending on different turtles.

Black turtles usually begin to hibernate at the end of November of that year and end in April of the following year. Don't feed the hibernating turtles immediately, wait a few days and then feed them according to the situation.