What does the lucky turtle eat?

Do you know what kind of turtle this is? Lucky turtle, also known as pig-nosed turtle, is highly aquatic. In addition to laying eggs, it lives in water all the year round, so its limbs specialize into flippers like turtles. The nose is long and fleshy, shaped like a pig's nose, so it has the reputation of "lucky turtle". There are also many people who will keep this kind of turtle, so what do lucky turtles eat? Let's discuss it together.

Lucky turtles are omnivorous animals, but they eat grass slightly, so they can generally feed vegetables and fruits such as figs, apples, kiwis, bananas, etc., and occasionally add a small amount of animal bait such as fish and shrimp. You can also feed synthetic fish feed or turtle feed, and supplement calcium and vitamins appropriately. Healthy lucky turtles eat a lot, almost from morning till night. After each feeding, you should salvage food residues with net bags to keep the water clean. This is especially true when feeding bananas and other foods will worsen the water quality.

Young turtles tend to be carnivorous, and can be fed more animal bait such as fish, shrimp, beef, earthworm and red worm to meet their growth needs. Because the limbs of lucky turtles are fin-shaped, which is not conducive to tearing food, they should be cut into appropriate pieces before feeding so that turtles can swallow them.

Young turtles generally don't like to grow food, but some owners think they prefer corn, bananas, pears and other fruits and vegetables with high sweetness. In addition, they can try to feed various aquatic plants, such as Sophora alopecuroides, Ceratophyllum, Charophyta, etc., to balance nutrition.

Precautions:

Do not mix with scavenger (work) to avoid damaging the surface layer of its skin and causing skin ulceration.

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Lucky turtle is a highly aquatic freshwater turtle, which can live in deep water for a long time and rarely goes ashore. Therefore, it is a master swimmer among turtles, and its swimming style is vigorous and elegant. Backward swimming is its stunt.

Adult lucky turtles are very aggressive. If there is not enough hiding place when breeding, they will leave many scars on each other's carapace skin.

In terms of diet, the lucky turtle is an opportunist, eating whatever he meets, and rarely actively hunting unless he is not nutritious enough.

In addition to laying eggs, they live in water all the year round, belonging to highly aquatic reptiles and omnivores, but young turtles are carnivores, eating a lot and being aggressive. The tail of adult male turtle is bigger, and the position of vent hole is also relatively backward; The tail of the mother turtle is shorter and smaller.