When we lay hands on the tortoise, we must see clearly whether it is healthy, including mental state and action, so as to "find a good seedling and lay a good stick."
You should pay attention to your state when raising turtles. If the turtle is observed to be abnormal, it should be handled in time. For example, if white spot disease of soft-shelled turtle is found, it can be treated with erythromycin or hundreds of drugs. If you are a group friend, pay attention to isolate the sick turtle from the healthy turtle to prevent mutual infection.
Below I list some ways to choose a good turtle. There are four main ways to check whether the tortoise is in normal health:
A normal tortoise will recoil when a person or an older creature walks by it, so this method can be used to preliminarily judge whether the tortoise is healthy or not.
Second, turn the bottom of the turtle upside down and see if it can turn back soon. If you can, the tortoise will be healthy. If not, preliminarily judge whether the tortoise has health problems.
Third, observe whether the turtle's eyes are bright and whether there are secretions in its mouth and nose. If it has secretions in its mouth and nose, it is necessary to consider whether it is caused by a cold.
Fourth, observe whether the tortoise is injured or has incomplete toes. Put the turtle in deep water. If it sinks in the water, it can be judged that the tortoise is healthy, otherwise it is malnutrition.
Second, the environment for raising turtles should be reasonable, and a good environment can grow well!
The environment for raising turtles should be scientific and reasonable, because the breeding environment has a great influence on the viability of turtles. A good breeding environment can make their turtles thrive, which is also likely to be ignored by friends.
The environment of turtle breeding includes the control of water quality, water temperature and water level in ponds or breeding boxes, and the places where turtles need ventilation and sunshine on their backs.
For the water level, generally speaking, just cover the turtle, not too deep. In winter, when the tortoise hibernates, the water should be minimized, which can be as small as 2-3mm, but attention should be paid to moisturizing the water tank.
Moisturizing method can use wet towel to pad the box to achieve moisturizing effect, but the material of towel is best cotton towel, and waste newspaper can also be used to pad the bottom of the box. This method is cheaper than the previous method, but the disadvantage is that the newspaper will stick to the bottom of the box after the water in the box dries, which is inconvenient for us to take down, and we often dig the newspaper hard, so that the box is full of torn newspaper residues.
For water quality, it is suggested to change the water once every four days, which can be shortened to two or three days in summer and once a day or every other day in hot places. Above the water tank or pond, the tortoise can shade properly to avoid sunburn.
The temperature of the water in the pond should not be too high or too low. It is suggested that the temperature should be controlled at 20-25 degrees, and the optimum temperature for turtles to hibernate in winter is 5- 10 degrees.
Here, I want to remind everyone that turtles must not be placed in air-conditioned rooms when they hibernate, because all turtles are very sensitive to temperature. In the environment with large temperature fluctuation, the tortoise will wake up. If this happens frequently, it will easily lead to the turtle's direct death. (This pit must be remembered! )
It is very important to provide a place for the turtle's terrace to breathe, bask in the back, rest and play. I suggest building one or more platforms that are convenient for going up and down in the box or pool. You can't raise turtles without such a platform.
Third, it's your responsibility to control your behavior and raise a turtle badly.
With a good turtle and a good environment, the control problem must be the most critical link in the whole turtle culture. In different growth stages of turtles, the management required for feeding is also different.
It is suggested that turtle food should be mainly fed during the young turtle period, and then a little finely divided fish and shrimp should be fed as auxiliary feed. Of course, fish and shrimp are only suitable for carnivorous turtles. If some partners keep grass turtles, they can put in some digestible vegetables (vegetables must be washed first to prevent pesticide residues). Remember, don't overdo it, because the gastrointestinal development of young turtles is not perfect, and eating a lot may cause gastrointestinal problems.
Turtles need water to push them to eat, so don't throw food directly in a dry place when feeding. For adult turtles, we can mainly feed high-protein foods such as fish, shrimp or broken animal viscera, but it is best to feed small pieces of food to turtles. Remember to clean up the food crumbs after feeding to prevent fermentation from causing a series of bad water and bacterial growth, which will make turtles sick.
There is also the control of water source, which not only needs to change water regularly, but also pays attention to whether the water source is safe. Because tap water contains bleach and chlorine, which has an impact on the health of turtles, it is generally not recommended to use tap water directly as the water source of turtles. If necessary, it should also be disinfected, such as using water purification agent or exposure to the sun, in order to achieve the purpose of disinfection.
Here, we also need to pay attention to an easily overlooked behavior: after being exposed to the sun, don't put the turtle into the water immediately, wait for a period of time before putting it in.
Fourth, the turtle's disease is hard to prevent, how to effectively prevent it?
The symptoms of turtles will come soon, especially when spring blooms after hibernation and the seasons change. All kinds of hard-to-prevent turtle diseases are the pain points on our way to raising turtles.
There are many factors that cause turtles to get sick, among which the most common ones are weather influence and environmental influence. Climate change can lead to colds or heatstroke; Bacteria and parasites in water can cause gastrointestinal diseases, which is undoubtedly a health problem.
Therefore, it is very important for us to change water and clean turtles regularly. Conditional friends can also regularly use disinfectants, potassium permanganate or baking soda to the turtle pond or turtle box to keep the environment clean.
Fifth, external factors will also have an impact on the health of turtles!
Let's talk about the external environmental factors of turtles first. The external environmental factors I am talking about here mainly refer to the turtle's reaction to the external environment of the water tank, because turtles also have their own personalities, and different turtles have different personalities. Some turtles are very sensitive to the noisy environment outside, so this turtle should choose a quiet breeding environment. But some turtles don't react too much to noisy environment, so this kind of turtle has a wide breeding environment.
When the tortoise is sensitive to the external environment and conflicts occur, it can be observed from the state of the tortoise. For example, poor mental health, slow movements, poor appetite, and normally closed eyes (excluding hibernation). Therefore, when our turtles have these reactions after excluding the possibilities listed above, it is necessary to consider whether the turtles are sensitive to the external environment.
Sixth, the daily management of turtles, diligent hands-on, washing is healthier.
Finally, talk about the daily care of raising turtles. The tortoise at home had better be kept clean. The living environment of our turtles is limited, so it is easier to breed bacteria on their shells. If you don't clean them for a long time, coupled with the turtle's physical deviation, it is likely to cause the shell to fall off and die. Therefore, we should clean the turtle shell from time to time.
When cleaning the turtle shell, you can gently wipe off the stains with a soft brush or cotton cloth, which not only makes the turtle look good, but also greatly reduces the risk of getting sick.