How best to raise Brazilian turtles?

People who believe that tortoise lovers know the Brazilian tortoise, but in fact its full name is the Brazilian red-eared tortoise because it has two thick red stripes on both sides of the top of the head. Although Brazilian turtles are not delicate, it is very important to know how to raise Brazilian turtles. The following is to introduce all aspects of Brazilian turtles to let you know how best to raise Brazilian turtles!

How best to raise Brazilian turtles?

1. Feeding rule

Adults are recommended three times a week, but young turtles can do so once a day. Brazilian turtles have a good sense of sight and smell, so they are good at grabbing food. In artificial feeding conditions, like to eat animal bait, such as fish, pork, animal offal, clam, snail and blood worm (Chironomus larva), red filariasis (water earthworm), yellow pink worm (bread worm), fly maggot, etc., food can not carry thorns and bones to avoid tortoise injury.

It is best to feed fresh raw meat, cooked meat hardened, turtles do not like to eat hard food. Brazilian turtles like shrimp best. When adult or old Brazilian turtles are extremely hungry, individual turtles eat plants such as vegetable leaves, rice, soft melons and fruits, but it is rare. Baby turtles basically only eat meat. The feeding time of red-eared turtles is not selective and eats day and night. In the state of hunger, there is the behavior of grabbing food, and the phenomenon of eating too much and eating small occurs.

2. Breeding of young turtles

Young Brazilian turtles can be raised in flat-bottomed containers, suitable for plastic pots, plastic grooves, glass jars or boxes, and aquariums.

Each baby turtle should have five liters of water, and the water depth should not exceed the length of the tortoise, so that the turtle's feet can reach the ground when it comes to the surface to breathe. At the same time, they must also be made of bricks and stones or buy basking tables so that turtles can bask in their backs. Floating islands are not applicable because young turtles are often unable to climb up.

The water temperature that young turtles can adapt to is about 23 degrees Celsius and 28 degrees Celsius. When the weather is cold, the air above the container should also be heated, and a lamp can have the best of both worlds by installing a cover lamp on the breeding tank. If the water temperature is still too low, you can set a heating rod in the water to adjust the temperature as much as possible.

3. Adult turtles are raised

The breeding boxes needed for adult turtles are much larger so that they have enough room for movement. To create an ideal environment, a pair of grown Brazilian turtles need a range of at least 100 liters of water. Too small a breeding box will quickly make the Brazilian turtle fat and dull, and if it falls into the water on all fours, it will drown because it cannot turn over.

There are also cases of tortoise shell dysplasia caused by the size of culture containers. Large plastic pots, aquariums or large wooden containers covered with plastic cloth can be used as turtle troughs. The trough with drain holes is the most convenient because it is easy to change water and clean frequently.

In order to make the water temperature in the culture tank reach the temperature preferred by the Brazilian turtle, the heating rod used in the aquarium should be used to prevent the equipment and circuit from jamming the Brazilian tortoise. The bottom of the aquaculture box can also be placed with an electric felt, and the synthetic resin rubber can be used as an insulating material under the felt. However, the water temperature should not be higher than the outside temperature (about 25 to 30 degrees Celsius) to prevent Brazilian turtles from catching cold.

Matters needing attention in hibernation of Brazilian turtles

1. How to spend the winter

Generally speaking, Brazilian turtles begin to hibernate below 15 ℃ and start feeding when the water temperature rises above 16 ℃. The cold resistance of Brazilian turtles is OK, generally, as long as the water temperature is not less than 4 ℃, they can survive the winter safely. Family breeding in the indoor temperature is generally not lower than this, but if raised in the balcony or garden pool should pay attention. Especially when the temperature is low at night, we must take good measures to prevent the cold. It is best to move them indoors and put them in a clean plastic basin without water. Cover the turtle body with some wet grass or wet towels. Usually pay attention to spray some water to maintain humidity so that you can safely pass the winter.

2. Prepare for hibernation

Before hibernation, to put fat to the tortoise, from September, to let the tortoise eat full, twice a day, eat for a month, reserve enough overwintering fat. When the turtles stop eating in October, they use more warm water to soak the turtles to stimulate their defecation, clean their intestines and clean up the feces left in the body. In order to avoid staying in the intestinal tract for a long time to cause intestinal disease, the six months after stopping eating, the tortoise is too thin or the eating state is not good, or if the turtle is too small, it is necessary to heat up and raise the temperature to 28 degrees, and the turtle will eat normally. if you do not heat up this state of hibernation, because the amount of fat reserve is too small, it is likely to die because it is unable to hold on until the temperature rises.

3. Hibernation examination

If the breeder wants to check the hibernating health of the tortoise, at most once a month, except in a very special emergency, the breeder can disturb a hibernating turtle. This kind of inspection can only be done occasionally and must not be done frequently, otherwise it will disturb the hibernation of the tortoise and prevent it from fully entering the hibernating state, thus it is difficult to achieve the purpose of letting the tortoise into hibernation. Too many interruptions are likely to increase the hibernating mortality of turtles.

4. After hibernation

In addition, if the tortoise that has just awakened from hibernation is not interested in food and refuses to eat, the breeder should not be surprised. Turtles that just wake up from hibernation, like many people who just wake up, feel dizzy and need a period of time to adjust, but turtles take much more time to adjust than humans, about 1-2 days, or more.

Many turtles that wake up from hibernation look scrawny or malnourished, which is normal under normal circumstances. At this time, breeders need to have some patience, the first few feed should be small and refined, and in the feed mixed with appropriate amounts of nutritional drugs and antibiotics. Gradually increase the amount of feed, after a period of time, and then according to the maximum amount of turtle feed, so that the turtle can recover as soon as possible.

Selection and purchase skills of Brazilian turtles

1. Selection and purchase method

Healthy turtles have hard and intact back armour, thick and bright light green, bright eyes, clean nostrils, flexible back of head and limbs, will compete for bait, and some will climb to rest on other tortoise shells and put them in water. In short, choose lively and energetic turtles. Here are the detailed methods:

① watched carefully to see if it showed a natural movement of escape. When people approach the basin, whether it tries to dive away, turtles with swimming or diving difficulties, turtles with clogged nostrils or swollen eyes are coming to an end, do not buy them.

Most of ② 's healthy tortoise shells are uninjured and have a uniform and normal shape. If you feel that the tortoise shell is "soft" when touching, you will suffer from osteomalacia.

③ can feed some feed and see which one is the first to eat, which can also judge their health. It is better to be careful with turtles that refuse to eat feed.

④ you should also consider that these cute little guys will not always be so small, and they will need more space in the future. If the conditions are better, they will grow very fast, and under your care, the length of the carapace will grow to 25 to 30 centimeters.

2. Distinguish between male and female

Generally speaking, young turtles of small size (weighing less than 250 grams) are difficult to identify because of sexual immaturity. Some JS are selling young Brazilian turtles that say sex can be determined by abdominal nail patterns, but there is no scientific basis. For turtles of the same age, females are always larger than males. The common Brazilian tortoise male tortoise weighs 300 grams, and the female tortoise weighs 500 grams. Other turtles have different standards according to different species.

① female tortoise: the base of the tail is thin, the cloaca is close to the posterior edge of the ventral nail, the two anal scutellums of the ventral nail are shallow and the angle of the notch is larger. The dorsal nail is short and wide, the ventral nail is flat and central without depression, the tail is thin and short, and the cloacal foramen is located within the ventral nail. Or use fingers to press the tortoise limbs so that it can not protrude, the cloaca secretes fluid, that is, the female turtle.

② male tortoise: the dorsal armour is long and narrow, the center of the ventral nail is slightly sunken, the tail is thick and long, the tail base is thick, the cloacal foramen is far from the posterior edge of the ventral nail, the two anal shields of the ventral nail form a deeper engraving and a smaller angle. The dorsal armour is long and narrow, the ventral nail is slightly sunken in the center, the tail is thick and long, the tail base is thick, and the cloacal foramen is located outside the ventral nail. Or use fingers to press the tortoise limbs so that it can not protrude, its reproductive organs will protrude from the reproductive hole, that is, the male tortoise.

③ for most adult turtles of the same year, the male tortoise is thin and small, while the female tortoise is round and large.