What kind of food do money turtles eat?

Abstract: money turtles are omnivorous turtles who like to live in rock caves or mud caves in hills near the water. after being frightened, they dive into the bottom of the water and often go to mountains and streams or wet ground to look for all kinds of aquatic animals. because of its wide diet, strong disease resistance and hunger tolerance, and strong vitality, let's take a look at what kind of food the money tortoise eats.

Money turtles are omnivorous turtles, who like to live in mountain caves or mud holes near the water. after being frightened, they dive to the bottom of the water and often go to mountains and streams or wet places to look for all kinds of aquatic animals. because of their wide diet, strong disease resistance and hunger tolerance, and strong vitality, let's take a look at what kind of food money turtles eat.

What do money turtles eat?

Money turtles are omnivorous turtles, which mainly prey on snails, fish, shrimp, tadpoles and other aquatic animals in water, as well as young mice, small fish, shrimp, snails, young frogs, beetles, earthworms, snails and fly maggots. Sometimes they also eat pumpkins, bananas and tender stems, leaves and seeds of plants. Under the condition of artificial feeding, feeding animals like viscera, earthworms, lean meat, small fish and mixed feed.

The feed of money tortoise

The feed for raising money turtles can be divided into two categories: animal feed and plant feed. Lean pork, animal offal, fish, shrimp and shellfish are selected as animal feed, bananas (peeled) and apples are selected as plant feed. The animal feed is mainly used, and the two kinds of feed are interspersed with each other. the feeding times of plant feed are about 1 / 7 of the times of animal feed feeding. From the investigation of the eating status of Jincha money turtles, money turtles like to eat lean pork with animal feed and bananas with plant feed.

Feeding of money turtles

1. Newly hatched juvenile turtles: the newly hatched young turtles still carry a yolk sac. Within 2-3 days, the nutrition of the young turtles is supplied by the yolk sac, so there is no need to feed the young turtles. 2-3 days later, feed small fish, shrimp, earthworms and a little rice and vegetables.

2. Young turtles and adult turtles: the feed mainly includes fish, shrimp, snail, clam meat, earthworms, pumpkin, vegetable leaves and commercial feed, etc., depending on the season, water temperature and the growth of the tortoise. Generally, the daily feeding amount is about 5% of your body weight. Adhere to regular, quantitative and qualitative feeding, so that the tortoise has enough to eat. During hibernation, the money tortoise has no feeding behavior and does not need to be fed.