Turtles shed their shells, especially water turtles, tortoises and semi-water turtles. When feeding, water turtles shed their shells, indicating that they have grown up.
normal condition
Generally, when a turtle is in a healthy and normal state, it will automatically shed one piece at a time, as hard as a nail.
There are two sequences:
1. First, the carapace retreats first, and now it is the abdominal carapace.
2. First the abdominal nail, then the dorsal nail.
When a turtle sheds its shell, it is not complete and continuous like other animals, but scattered.
abnormalities
The yellow edge is generally not shelled, and the yellow edge is upturned.
The symptoms are: the side nail can be pulled out with fingernails, but there is a new tender shell inside, which is neither smelly nor soft.
solve
Generally speaking, water turtles are more common, which may be caused by dry environment, so don't worry too much. No problem. You can apply some vitamin E once a day, once in the morning and once in the evening.
Turtles, if they are semi-water, can be padded with water moss or coconut soil and mountain mud to ensure sufficient humidity.
Question 2: What happened to the turtle shell? It's normal for them to molt, because the shell is horny and won't grow ~ leave it alone when molting, it doesn't hurt or itch, and it's nothing. You can take it to bask in the sun, which is good for its health. Turtles and snakes are close relatives, so they shed their skin, but unlike snakes, turtle scales will also fall off! ! My turtle shed its skin when it was about four years old. There was no digital camera at that time, so I didn't record this strange appearance. Here I want to warn everyone that the turtle family should not help him during molting, he will take care of himself. I just don't know that "helping" it has caused lifelong harm to it. I'm here to apologize to this poor turtle. Here, I will carefully introduce what your turtle looks like when it molts.
Question 3: My turtle has been shelled, but I feel uncomfortable looking at it. When the landlord's tortoise changes its shell, it is absolutely forbidden to drag the nail plate down by force. The pieces of nails you see on it will slowly fall off by themselves, without human efforts ~! It is very painful for you to drag it down, but the tortoise can't talk, but its expression can be seen ~! And you will easily hurt the turtle shell in the process of dragging. If the tortoise shell is torn and the wound is infected, it is easy to suffer from tortoise shell infection ~! Don't put it off any more in the future, it will fall off slowly by itself, without manual work ~! Just like people, how painful it will be to break a piece of skin and pull it off! ? This pain is the same ~! ! Even turtles in winter need water. Of course it's raised in water. Whether it is hibernation or winter, it should be carried out in a humid environment, otherwise it will be dehydrated if it is kept dry. This wrong feeding method is very bad for turtles. In the cold winter, it is necessary to feed turtles in the water. As long as you don't put the turtle outdoors, it will freeze to death. Just put it indoors. The tortoise's eating and activities are based on the change of temperature. When the temperature is low, it will sleep with its eyes closed and even hibernate. When the temperature is high, I will wake up and want to eat and start to have activities ~! I wonder how big this turtle is. If it is a small turtle, it is not recommended to hibernate, and it needs to be heated with a heating rod to keep them through the winter. Because the turtle is too small, it doesn't have enough fat in its body to consume all winter, and it will die because of exhaustion during this period. If it is chinemys reevesii, whose height is 10 cm, or even larger, it can start to hibernate at the cold water temperature of about 5-6 degrees.
When the tortoise goes into hibernation, you only need to feed it before preparing for winter, so that it can store enough fat for its whole hibernation. Stop feeding before hibernation 1 week, let it discharge all the feces in its body, and be sure to clean it up, so as not to leave feces in its intestine and cause obstruction. Then it will sink to the bottom and start to hibernate. Put it in a quiet place, don't disturb it during the period, let it pass the winter smoothly ~ so the survival rate will be higher. For those smaller turtles, you need to raise them with heating rods, otherwise there are certain risks. Heating rod is a must-have item in winter, and the little turtle depends on it in winter ~! Keep warm, feed, replenish physical strength, and let it spend the winter smoothly. Generally, the water temperature should be between 22 and 25 degrees, which is more suitable for soft-shelled turtles. If the water temperature is too low, its appetite and activity will also decrease. The turtle's daily eating and activities are based on the change of water temperature. It will be consumed by low temperature, fall into a state of sleeping with eyes closed, and go into deep hibernation below 10, but will be very active at the water temperature of 22-25 degrees, and can eat ~.
Turtles in winter can't stay completely dry, and can't even be put in sand or wrapped in wet towels for the winter. This is extremely wrong and easily leads to dehydration. If you put it in the sand for the winter, even if it is cleaned, it will breed bacteria, which will easily lead to turtle shell disease, skin infection and eye infection. Don't think that there is no problem in doing this before, but it is still the case now, and bacteria will gradually accumulate. When accumulated to a certain extent, it will be very troublesome to solve the problem. Not to mention, because most people on the internet say that turtles hibernate, not hibernating into the water, is to accelerate their death ~! A turtle raised indoors will not freeze it, unlike the outdoor temperature of 0 degrees or dozens of degrees. If you put it outdoors, it will really freeze to death ~! When feeding in winter, the water level should not exceed its whole body, and it is no problem to exceed the tortoise shell. When breathing, it will float to the surface to breathe. At other times, it will sink to the bottom for the winter. Of course, in winter, we should also ensure that the water quality is clean. At first, there may be feces in the water. Change the water immediately at this time. We can change the water 2-3 times a week under the condition that there is no feces in the water for the next few days. If it is heated, change the water immediately after feeding and excretion. Don't wait for the water to get dirty before changing it. The water quality is polluted, and many bacteria are easy to cause disease ~! The water temperature should not be too different before and after changing water. A tortoise with a cold is prone to catch a cold and get sick. For water quality problems, you can go to the aquarium market to buy water quality stabilizers. Just drop a few drops when you use it. Don't use tap water directly. Tap water needs to be a little dry before it can be used by turtles. It is necessary to remove chlorine from tap water, which is harmful to the tortoise itself. In spring and summer, you can use boiled water ... >>
Question 4: What happened to the turtle shell? Why does a turtle have a shell?
First, it is normal for grass turtles to grow up;
Second, it may be onychomycosis, which is an abnormal phenomenon and needs to be prevented.
Prevention of onychomycosis:
Feeding density is not easy to be too high, pay attention to water quality management, and check whether cleaning filters and heating appliances are complete in time.
Treatment of onychomycosis:
First, use 10% salt water to clean the wound surface of the soft-shelled turtle, remove the necrotic skin, and be gentle at first to minimize the pain caused to the soft-shelled turtle. Then apply the sterilized sulfanilamide crystal evenly to the affected area, or apply it with chlortetracycline ointment (eye ointment).
During the treatment, don't put the soft-shelled turtle into the water except when feeding. Wash off the old medicine when changing the medicine, and then use the new medicine. Change the dressing once a day.
Question 5: Did the tortoise shell fall off? Is it normal? Something's still wrong with me. Under normal circumstances, the tortoise's shell is inclined, which means that the tortoise is growing up. Shelling is normal. Please don't worry.
Question 6: Is it useful to shell a turtle? This is just a myth! Correctly understanding the medicinal and health care value of soft-shelled turtle
Author: Wu Boping Wu Ming
In recent years, with the rapid development of social economy and material culture, people pay more and more attention to their own health problems, and pay more and more attention to turtle health care. The efficacy of turtles is greatly exaggerated, even misleading and misused, making people sick. The purchase price of turtles has soared, and many businesses have become rich. However, the resources of wild soft-shelled turtle are shrinking sharply and are on the verge of extinction. China has ranked first in the world in turtle consumption for many years. All kinds of problems, including the questioning and torture of the international community, make us have to reflect on the true value of soft-shelled turtle as Chinese medicine and health care products.
Brief introduction to the efficacy of tortoise shell and tortoise meat
From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, the effects of soft-shelled turtle and soft-shelled turtle are slightly different, but basically similar. Taking soft-shelled turtle as an example, this paper briefly discusses the real medicinal and health value of soft-shelled turtle.
Physicians in past dynasties have different views on the efficacy of turtles. At the end of the Han dynasty, the herbal work "Records of Famous Doctors" said that "meat is soup and tonic"; However, according to the Daily Materia Medica written by Ray Wu in Yuan Dynasty, it is sour in taste, mild in nature and slightly toxic. The phrase "a little poisonous" obviously pulled it off the altar.
The main parts of tortoise that can be used as medicine are tortoise shell and tortoise meat.
There are about 70 kinds of ancient prescriptions containing tortoise shells, but only a dozen are commonly used. There are 32 14 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines in the 2065,438+00 edition of China National Pharmacopoeia, and the most commonly used ones are 1000. In this huge figure, the tortoise shells used in more than ten kinds of commonly used prescriptions are obviously just a drop in the ocean. It can be seen that in the big family of Chinese medicine, soft-shelled turtle is just one of countless medicinal materials, and there is nothing special about it. But why do people nowadays become more and more superstitious about it?
Daily Materia Medica, which records that "turtle is a little poisonous", is an important classic in the history of traditional medicine in China, and its authentic copy is also collected in Japanese Liangku University, with a history of more than 370 years. There must be some truth in this view in the book. But we won't discuss this for the time being today. Let's take a look at what people usually think is the function of turtles.
Let's talk about tortoise shells first. The main functions of tortoise shell are nourishing yin and suppressing yang, tonifying kidney and strengthening bones, nourishing heart and calming nerves. After reading this description, many people may exclaim, this is called magic medicine. In fact, everyone should know that Chinese medicine is different from western medicine, and the curative effect of western medicine is often single, while the pharmacology of Chinese medicine is completely different from western medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine has a wider effect on the human body than western medicine, and it often has more than one aspect, but many, many functions. Many Chinese medicines are like this, not just tortoise shells. Take two examples: Rehmannia glutinosa as an example. According to "Materia Medica from the New" written by Luo in the Qing Dynasty, its efficacy is: "Nourishing kidney water, sealing bone marrow, benefiting blood vessels, replenishing true yin ... (treating) all diseases of liver and kidney yin deficiency and fatigue." Another example is the yam that we often eat at the dinner table. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Jiebin recorded in Materia Medica that the efficacy is "invigorating the spleen and moistening the lungs, benefiting the stomach and tonifying the kidney, hearing and improving eyesight, helping the five internal organs, strengthening the bones and muscles, and prolonging life."
Of course, this is not to deny the efficacy of tortoise shell as a Chinese medicine. Tortoise shell, like many other Chinese medicines, has some functions, but there is absolutely no need to deify it, let alone be deified.
Turtle meat is rarely used as medicine, with narrow application range and less frequency. There are only six ancient prescriptions using turtle meat in the prescription database of traditional Chinese medicine in China, and the modern application is rare.
Second, alternative drugs are difficult to compete with.
As mentioned above, there are more than ten kinds of ancient prescriptions containing tortoise shells, and only six kinds contain tortoise meat. The effects of tortoise shell and tortoise meat in these prescriptions are not irreplaceable, and alternative drugs can be selected according to various clinical syndromes.
Chinese medicine pays attention to "monarch, minister, assistant and envoy". Monarch drugs are drugs that play a major role in treating major diseases or syndromes, and the rest can be called auxiliary drugs, which means they play an auxiliary therapeutic role. Zhengan Xifeng decoction is one of the famous prescriptions for using tortoise plastron, but tortoise plastron is not an irreplaceable monarch medicine, but only an auxiliary medicine. * * It is used together with keel and oyster to suppress yang and reduce adverse flow, thus softening the liver and calming the wind. Tortoise shell in this prescription can be completely replaced by other drugs, and concha Haliotidis or magnet can suppress yang, all of which have good effect of suppressing yang. Nourishing yin can be supplemented by nourishing yin drugs such as Radix Rehmanniae and Rhizoma Polygonati. The combination of the two can completely achieve the effect of the original prescription.
"Three Meat G" recorded in Volume 4 of "Qin Shou Pension" is composed of turtle meat, mutton meat and roe meat, which is mainly used to treat postpartum milk retention. However, there are many dietotherapy methods to treat postpartum galactorrhea, such as Su Yongquan Decoction: ten grams of cowherb seeds, three eggs and appropriate amount of sugar. Add two bowls of boiled Semen Vaccariae until one bowl of water remains, remove residue, beat eggs, and cook chicken with medicinal juice ... >>
Question 7: What happened to the turtle's shell? Shelling and molting are all manifestations of metabolism. Most turtles don't shell, such as turtles, crocodiles, long-lived turtles and long-necked turtles. Only the Brazilian tortoise and its close relatives, yellow-eared tortoise, flame turtle, scarab and map tortoise shed their shells.
Question 8: Is the tortoise out of its shell or sick? The picture below is not shelled, but it is normal. Don't buckle it manually if it's okay.
Question 9: How long does it take for the tortoise to shell? It is normal for turtles to shell. The interval depends on the weather. Shelling will not occur in winter, and it is rarely caused by overheating. Most of them are at the turn of spring and summer, some only take off their shells once a year, and some take off their shells once a month. Normal shelling is beneficial to the growth of turtles, for example, at most twice a year. However, colorful turtles are reborn more often, usually three or four times a year. When the tortoise is reborn, pay more attention to feeding some shrimp, small fish, red earthworm and so on. It is best to eat live food and lean meat instead of fat, otherwise it will cause diarrhea. Let it get more sunshine at this time.