The habits of soft-shelled turtle

When it comes to soft-shelled turtle, many people must be familiar with it. It not only has high nutritional value, but also has become a delicacy on the table. But because the price is expensive, the market is good, so many people will specially raise some, and if you want to raise a good soft-shelled turtle, first understand its living habits, what are the habits of the soft-shelled turtle?

The main results are as follows: 1. Soft-shelled turtles are amphibians and reptiles that inhabit the bottom of the water. They only climb ashore during the spawning period and when they are foraging in summer. It breathes through its lungs and exhales through its nostrils. Most of them are wild and widely distributed, and they are found in rivers, streams and ponds and reservoirs from south to north. In recent years, in the southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, there are not a few professional soft-shelled turtle farmers, who like to live in the waters with sandy beaches or hillsides on the shore.

2. The soft-shelled turtle is mainly animal-eating bait. The soft-shelled turtle has no teeth, but it has very hard gums and can crush all kinds of food. Small fish, shrimp, insects, frogs, clam meat, snail meat, mother grasshopper, earthworms and animal offal are all its delicacies. Sometimes it also eats plant seeds, and it also preys on insects, grasshoppers, small frogs, earthworms and so on.

3. Every year, the soft-shelled turtle lays eggs and crawls to make a nest in the sand on the shore at the end of spring and the beginning of summer, lays eggs on the soil cover, and often hides nearby to peep. The soft-shelled turtle is active frequently in June and July, and often rises to the surface to bask in the sun during the calm daytime. It climbs up to the shore to enjoy the cool in the dead of night, and its appetite is the most exuberant in July, August and September. Very gluttonous, very good fishing after October to hide in the deep water bottom, ready to hibernate until March of the following year.

4. Turtles like clean water, live water, sandy and muddy bottom, quiet, leeward and sunny. Afraid of disturbance, afraid of cold, afraid of strong wind. Its visual, auditory and olfactory organs are very sensitive, especially to the fishy smell of animal internal organs. It also has the ability to judge the direction of escape.

5. Soft-shelled turtle is a temperature-changing animal, and its food intake is closely related to the water temperature. It eats a lot when the water temperature is 20-32 degrees Celsius, decreases when it is below 20 degrees Celsius, and does not eat when it is below 15 degrees Celsius. When the water temperature exceeds 33 degrees Celsius in summer, they lose their appetite, hide in the bottom or shade during the day, and go ashore in search of food at night; in winter, they do not eat at the bottom and hibernate until the end of the hibernation period in March of the following year. Every year, summer and autumn are the golden season for fishing soft-shelled turtles.

6. The soft-shelled turtle has strong fecundity and slow growth. The diameter of the soft-shelled turtle is 7-8 cm in winter, 9-12 cm in the second winter and 13-15 cm in the third winter. Soft-shelled turtles in rivers can weigh up to 10 kilograms. Soft-shelled turtles have a long life, and there is a kind of sea turtle that can live for more than a hundred years.

7. Soft-shelled turtles are very sensitive in sight and hearing, so they must keep quiet when fishing for soft-shelled turtles. Some people say that they have strong vision and weak sense of hearing. Once they see a suspicious figure, they hide at the bottom of the water. In fact, the soft-shelled turtle is very timid and alert, no matter what the movement will cause vigilance, hiding underwater dare not eat. So fishing soft-shelled turtles to keep quiet, avoid shaking figure, it is best to hide in the natural barrier, such as bushes, trees, tall reeds fishing. There are also people who build a tent with green plastic sheeting and dig a small hole when there is no natural barrier, and the anglers hide behind to observe the floating movement. So as not to alarm the soft-shelled turtle.

Generally speaking, soft-shelled turtles are not only amphibians and reptiles, but also variable temperature animals. They like to eat small fish, shrimp and other animal bait. Although they grow slowly, they live a long life, so many people keep them as pets.