What kind of tortoise is the freshwater turtle? How much is the market price per jin? How do you raise it?

Wealth turtles, also known as fake turtles, flying river turtles and pig-nosed turtles, are the only freshwater turtles with high ornamental value. Many people raise them as pets. What kind of tortoise is that? How much is the market price per jin? How do you raise it?

What kind of tortoise is it?

1. Introduction

Wealth tortoise, also known as pseudo-soft-shelled turtle, pig-nosed turtle and flying river turtle, is one of the most unique species of turtles, its distribution is limited to northern Australia, southern Irian Jaya and southern New Guinea, it is the only remaining species in the family Trionyx. Highly aquatic, living in the water all the year round in addition to spawning, so the limbs are specialized into flippers like sea turtles, which is also unique in freshwater turtles. The nose is long and succulent, shaped like a pig's nose, so it has the reputation of "recruiting wealth tortoises".

2. Eating habits

(1) what to eat?

①, what do adult turtles eat?

Wealth turtles eat a wide range of food, such as rice, wheat, peas, small fish, shrimp, insects, snails and so on, among which the favorite foods are small fish, snails, corn and rice. In artificial feeding, in order to meet the various nutrients needed for the growth of wealth turtles, and to avoid growth retardation and anorexia due to a single feed, a variety of feeds should be adopted. such as fish and shrimp, snails, mussels in animal feed and rice, wheat and corn in plant feed.

What do ② baby turtles eat?

Young turtles tend to be carnivorous, so they can feed more animal bait such as fish and shrimp, beef, earthworms and red worms to meet their growth needs. As the body of the wealth tortoise is fin-shaped, which is not conducive to tearing food, it should be cut into appropriate small pieces before feeding, so that the turtle can swallow.

In addition, young turtles generally do not like to plant food, but some owners think that they will prefer sweeter fruits and vegetables such as millet, bananas and pears. In addition, they can also try to feed various aquatic plants such as bitter grass, goldfish algae and chrysanthemum charophytes to facilitate nutritional balance.

(2) feeding skills:

Wealth turtles are usually fed once every three days, and the amount of feeding can be increased or decreased according to the size of egg turtles. Generally, they can be fed at 5: 10% of their body weight. When the temperature is moderate and their appetite is strong in spring and autumn, they should be fed more than usual before winter comes.

(3) feeding precautions:

① quantification

The amount of feed depends on the temperature, water quality, the turtle's appetite and its activities, depending on the appetite and its activities, and it is appropriate to have a little surplus during the meal. Usually take food every 1-2 days.

② positioning

A fixed feeding point is set up along the bank of the pool, and the table of the feeding point should be close to the water surface to facilitate the turtle to swallow water and bite. The purpose of targeted feeding is to make turtles develop habits to make it easier for them to find food, and to observe their activities and check their food intake.

③ quality determination

The feed should be kept fresh. After feeding, the leftover food should be removed in time to prevent the feed from rotting and smelling, affecting the turtle's appetite and polluting the water quality.

2. Market price:

1. Small Fortune Turtle: about 250 yuan

2. The Fortune Turtle in China: it's about 500 yuan.

3. Big Fortune Turtle: it's about 1000 yuan.

Prices are also different in different cities, and it is impossible to have an accurate figure as to how much a piece costs. If only as a companion pet, the general family raise, I think as long as I like to have an eye, the most important thing is that I like, the price is right.

3. Aquaculture techniques

1. Temperature

The wealth tortoise is a variable temperature animal. When the water temperature drops below 15 ℃, it begins to lie at the bottom of the water and begin to hibernate. At the turn of spring and summer, when the water temperature rises to more than 15 ℃, it begins to move and look for food. The most suitable temperature is 25: 30 ℃, and stop feeding when it is more than 35 ℃.

2. Lighting

Put the egg turtle in a place where the sun can be exposed, but to avoid exposure, there should be a cool place and a pool or basin for rest and play. And the amount of exercise of the small egg turtle is relatively large, proper exercise of muscles and bones is conducive to the development of bones.

3. Water quality management

During feeding, whether to change water should be decided according to the cleanliness of the water quality, and it should be changed when the water quality is polluted or turbid, and the water should be changed frequently in summer, but less in winter, and the new water should be changed more when hibernating and the new water temperature should be slightly higher than the usual water temperature by 1 / 2 ℃.

4. Disease and its control

(1) scabies

First of all, isolate the sick turtles, squeeze out all the contents of scabies, rub the affected area with iodine, apply oxytetracycline powder, and then plug cotton balls coated with oxytetracycline or chlortetracycline eye ointment into the affected area. Then put the sick turtles into shallow water, feed the turtles that have stopped eating, and mix the feed with antibiotics.

(2) mumps

Intramuscular injection of streptomycin sulfate. Inject 200000 units per kilogram of body weight. They were injected continuously for 3 days. Mild cases can be soaked in oxytetracycline solution (3 tablets of oxytetracycline in every 10 kg of water) for 30 minutes.