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Tortoise Hachi and Tortoise Xiao Jiu (Notes on Raising Tortoise)
Two or three months ago, someone gave me two small Brazilian turtles. How small are they? Crawling makes me feel like two small dark green pumpkin pies moving! So I named them. The older one is called Hachi, and the younger one is called Xiao Jiu. The patterns on their shells are completely different and easy to identify, so that after Hachi's death, I found many places to sell turtles, but I couldn't find anything similar. Ironically, I named it because I wanted a humble name to support myself. ......

It was raised with goldfish in the fish tank. At that time, the most common scene was that two little guys landed on all fours and tried to float on the water, looking around furtively, much like soldiers spying on the enemy. A few days later, I bought a turtle basin, and the water level was just under their backs. I built and expanded the original terrace with pebbles to give him enough space to bask in the sun. When the weekend cleared up, I put them on the windowsill to bask in the sun. Usually, they climb onto the terrace, support their whole bodies with their bellies, stretch their necks and raise their hind legs high. This shape looks like a small bow with a missing line. Don't disturb them at this moment, because this is the most comfortable time for them, and they look really cute. Although Xiao Jiu is very young, he sometimes bullies Hachi and treats it as a terrace!

When buying a turtle, judge whether a turtle is healthy, put it on the ground and see if it can turn over quickly enough. The little turtle is also very picky about the water quality. It is best to use boiled cold water. Adding alum to ordinary tap water will do harm to their skin and eyes. Xiao Jiu was ill, because I listened to the information on the Internet in the second week, and exchanged them with tap water that had been dry for two days! I found something wrong with it. A day later, Xiao Jiu was lying on the terrace, not getting into the water or moving. The skin turns white and falls off, and you don't eat! I panicked. Go find Du Niang. At work, my heart is occupied by this little thing and I can't calm down. After work, I went to the drugstore by bike and bought chlortetracycline eye ointment (applied to the skin) and glucose (soaked to supplement nutrition). Chlortetracycline Eye Ointment really has a good therapeutic effect on the skin disease of little turtle: I applied it for two or three days (once in the morning and once in the evening), kept it dry, and soaked it in water (put glucose) for about half an hour every day. After a few days, when I was feeding Xiaoba the third piece of meat, it suddenly ran from the balcony to grab it.

? Turtles are omnivores. They eat not only pork (only raw meat), but also fish and shrimp. Usually two turtles are fed to it. Xiao Ba is a turtle with two or three mouths. Xiao Jiu needs to eat two or three turtles, because he needs to chew up small pieces to eat (my Xiao Jiu pays attention to health! O(∩_∩)O ha! )! When feeding the meat, you have to cut the meat very finely, hold a toothpick and shake it in front of their mouths. Hachi wolfed down a few mouthfuls. Xiao Jiu, like a gentle little girl, eats meat slowly and is always robbed by Hachi, so I often hold Hachi down and let Xiao Jiu eat enough! Otherwise Hachi ate two turtles and started fighting. ...

Xiao Jiu is quiet and introverted, and Hachi is lively and active. Every time he brushes their shells, he puts Xiao Jiu's scared head and claws in. Hachi made a noise with his mouth open, as if he scared me away as an enemy. One night when I was working at home, I forgot to put the turtle basin back from the windowsill after feeding. When I finished my work at 1 1, only Xiao Jiu was there. Suddenly, my heart was cold. I stared at the basin several times before I confirmed that Hachi had really left. It is very likely that it overturned the tortoise basin and fell from the sixth floor. I pray that its hard shell can protect it from harm. I got up early the next morning and the alarm clock didn't go off (six o'clock). I put on my coat and ran down to look for it. With such a glimmer of hope, I finally saw it curled up in a corner. I was glad to think it was alive (because that place must have climbed up by itself), but when I gently picked it up, its head and limbs drooped and turned over. At that moment, remorse and sadness flooded in my heart: If I could get the turtle basin back after feeding, if I hadn't worked overtime at home yesterday (the only time), Hachi wouldn't have such a tragic ending, Xiao Jiu wouldn't have no playmates, and I wouldn't be so sad myself! So I really feel like an executioner. It was my carelessness that ruined a turtle's life ...

In the future, I will take good care of Xiao Jiu, change water for him every two days, feed him turtle food in the morning and evening, stop eating meat occasionally and talk to him more. I hope he won't be too lonely without Hachi. ...