The tooth edge turtle is a representative species of domestic semi-aquatic turtle, which is loved by many turtle friends because of its strong physique, strong adaptability, miscellaneous food and easy feeding. However, due to its appearance is not outstanding, there are not many people who raise it, and the popularity of this breed is relatively low. Most of the tooth edges in the Chinese market come from Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam and Cambodia. In the market, the tooth margin is divided into several dividing boundaries, which is different from the academic subspecies division, generally there are two divisions, one is divided into white background, black background species, and the other is divided into red meat, white meat species. Because "red meat" mostly appears on the black bottom species (that is, the tooth edge subspecies), so now some merchants take the "black bottom red meat species" as a gimmick, and begin to publish sales information on various city trading websites, and it is expected that in a period of time, the tooth edge will rise in price due to human factors.
The picture shows the tooth margin of the red flesh species on a black background
The feeding habit of the tooth edge is very mixed, which can be described as the same as the eating habit of the garbage can, especially the tooth edge raised in the artificial environment, the meat and vegetarian all-you-can-eat, the water and land killing, and the tenacity of the vitality can be seen. Even so, Lao Gu still raised a tooth in his junior high school years, and now in retrospect, he should have died of internal injuries caused by transportation, which is really ashamed. One year, the young and ignorant old man bought fourteen teeth and came back, the largest of which was more than two pounds, and the smallest was about the size of a fist. It was National Day, and at that time of lack of knowledge, it was safe to raise for a winter, zero loss. Later, he got tired of it, slowly sold it, and the last one was given to a friend after military training in college. Now that I think about it, I regret not making detailed breeding records, until I started to raise it again last year, and then I remembered to make a summary of the breeding of this breed.
After my own observation, the tooth edge is raised semi-water in a 1.2-meter-long finishing box, most of the time staying in the water, the original dozen turtles without exception, there may be individual differences, but this practice shows that the tooth edge is a kind of watery half-water turtle species. After observing the tooth margins of many turtle friends who have been reared by dry culture for a long time, it is found that the dorsal carapace of these turtles is flattened, the edges are upturned, the abdominal carapace is elongated, and it grows longer than the dorsal carapace, forming a deformed posture, and only the old turtles with sunken nails and no longer growing are spared. This also shows that the tooth edge is still more suitable for water maintenance.
The picture above is the difference between over-back water culture and not back water culture, and the bottom picture is an old turtle with a hollow shell
In terms of shell bumps, many tooth edges are flower shells when they are young, that is, dense rotting nails, bumps leave many scars, and after growing up in larger water bodies, most of the turtle shells do not leave obvious marks. This is very similar to sub-giant, long-term water culture can raise the "paint off" on the turtle shell back. After communicating with local turtle friends and observing the edge of the pond's teeth, I believe that the fertilizer water rich in algae is conducive to the growth of nail plates and can restore the surface damage of nail plates quickly. Wounds that injure bone plates cannot be recovered, and this is almost any breed.
Since most of the newly introduced tooth edges belong to the downhill goods, it is inevitable to deal with parasites parasitizing turtles. Most of the parasites on the tooth edge are leeches, but compared with other turtle species, the insects on the lower tooth edge are very few, and some turtles cannot find a bug on them. Even if there is, it is only a few, and the cool oil will fall off a little, without any difficulty. Sometimes in captivity, the bugs will be naturally raised and disappear without a trace.
The picture shows the hoarding status of the tooth edge that the merchant is about to sell as a "breeding turtle"
The opening of the tooth edge is basically not too difficult, even... Nothing technical. After doing enough resting, putting lumps of bananas, tomatoes, oranges, grapes, watermelons, fresh meat, fish and shrimp into the water can make it easy for the turtles to eat. Turtles that have not been kept for a long time are rare, and I have never encountered them myself. In a forest farm in Nanning, Guangxi, it used to be a production area for tooth edges. This area is the location of my hometown, and after many field observations, there are many wild fruits such as figs, ground forests, and abacus fruits near the waters where the tooth edge may live. Local elders said that when there was a red-edged turtle (three-line closed-shell turtle) produced at that time, figs were the main food.
My father, who hunted turtles locally when he was young, believed that the turtles produced in the local area invariably liked to eat wild fruits. Although I have reservations about this, after family-style feeding, it turns out that the tooth edge does like to eat fruit, which may be close to the staple food in the native environment. After feeding the meat bait, it was found that the tooth edge still did not refuse to come, and it seemed that the appetite was not reduced, and it was very happy to eat. Through consultation, it was learned that most of the artificial breeding of tooth margins in the early stage was fed miscellaneous fish, animal offal, meat, compound feed, supplemented by various fruits and vegetables. Therefore, in the eyes of most farmers and myself, the tooth edge is still biased towards meat. After a long period of rearing, it can even accept rice and dumpling skins (occasionally found, do not feed regularly). In summary, the recipe of the tooth edge is very wide, the receptivity is very strong, and it is very suitable for breeding.
Here to mention more, the tooth edge and most of the Southeast Asian half-water turtles, water turtles are more adapted to the alkaline water quality environment, the water quality of the acid environment is not conducive to the recovery of the lower mountain turtle. A valuable piece of information I want to share with you is: raise Anbu in less than six degrees of water for about a month, dry for another month, water for another month, and then dry for a month, and the three Anbu of the turtle friends are all shelled to varying degrees. Although this is difficult to explain, I hope to give turtle friends who study related issues a little more sense of direction.
The shape of the tooth edge gives people a flexible feeling in childhood, the water is sensitive, and when looking up, it is full of curiosity about the world; the mature tooth edge conveys a calm and simple visual impact, and the landscaping can make people have the illusion of stepping into nature. Every time I see the tooth edge raised in the native landscape environment, I always feel beautiful, maybe this is a kind of fate. However, the skin of the tooth edge is good and good, I also leave a little regret for myself, in the tooth edge I have come into contact with, I have hardly encountered a turtle with obvious disease and serious disease, so I myself have no experience in treating the sick tooth edge, and I can only learn from the experience gained from other turtles.
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