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How to feed a turtle?
Correct feeding method of soft-shelled turtle

1. Turtle is an amphibian and breathes with its lungs, so there should be enough land beaches around or in the center of the turtle pond for it to carry out land activities. Turtles are sensitive to the sounds of their surroundings. As long as there is a slight movement around, turtles can quickly dive into the bottom mud, so the breeding environment must be kept quiet. If the soft-shelled turtle is often frightened, it is very unfavorable to its growth and reproduction.

Turtles like to stay in an environment with good water quality, so the owner must change the water frequently, about once every 2-3 days.

3. Turtle should bask in the sun more, because ultraviolet rays in the sun can kill pathogenic bacteria on the body surface, promote the healing of injured body surface, raise body temperature and promote food digestion by basking in the back.

Turtle is an aquatic omnivore and likes to eat animal bait. Young turtles feed on aquatic insects, water worms, tadpoles and shrimps. Adult soft-shelled turtles feed on mollusks such as snails and clams, fish, shrimp and animal carcasses, and also eat plant feed such as vegetables, fruits and miscellaneous grains. Little turtle, you can cut the meat into diced meat and feed it to him slowly.

When feeding with fresh materials, it must be disinfected and cleaned, and it should be eaten now to avoid corruption. The bait should be cast in the form of bait, and the bait should be 2-3 cm above the water surface. Soft-shelled turtle is timid, so it should be fed with as little interference as possible.

6. In the south, soft-shelled turtles hibernate at the end of 1 1, while in the north they hibernate one month earlier. There is no need to prepare another place to hibernate, just spread half the sand in the basin on the water. It may climb out of the water and sleep motionless on the beach for dozens of days, and then unconsciously fall into the water to sleep for dozens of days.

7. Pay attention to mosquito prevention in summer. The tortoise is very afraid of mosquitoes.

8. Turtles are fierce and aggressive, and bullying among groups is very common. When food is scarce, they will eat the same kind. Therefore, in the process of feeding, we should feed enough food and pay close attention to their movements.