The yellow-edged closed-shell turtle should be the pride of the Chinese people, has a very high popularity, and has received unanimous praise from climbers, the reason is that it has super interaction, the courage is relatively large, it is not afraid of people, it will crawl with the lure of the owner's food, coupled with the beautiful appearance and bright ornamentation, it is born with the qualification of being a pet turtle.
The yellow edge belongs to the box turtle genus, the biggest feature that distinguishes it from other turtles is that it can completely indent the head and limbs into the shell, and close the gap tightly, so that the other party can not start when attacked, on the contrary, the use of this function can also clip or pinch small rats and snakes, so there is a "snake turtle" name. The dorsal carapace of the yellow rim is higher, dark red, reddish-reddish-red, and has a golden yellow "U" pattern behind the eyes, which is very beautiful. When we choose, we can keep improving and then pick some individuals with good looks, such as the color of the back armor is redder, the "U" pattern of the head is bright, metallic, and it must be connected, and some throats will glow pink, which requires us to observe carefully. It is recommended that you can raise artificially bred individuals, because wild timidity is usually shrunk in the shell, and it is difficult to see its appearance. On the contrary, artificial individuals are bold, highly interactive, and the back armor is also very shiny and less worn. In nature, the yellow edge is inhabited by weeds in hilly mountains, shrubs, belongs to semi-aquatic turtles, can not live in deep water, so when we arrange the feeding environment, you can arrange the environment on both sides of the water, you can use coarse sand as a substrate, the water is not too deep, a little less than the back armor can be, or simply dry, but to prepare a large basin, for it to bathe. Yellow edge food is more heterogeneous, like fish, shrimp, bread worms, earthworms, locusts, etc. can be accepted, artificial feeding can also be fed some tomatoes, apples, watermelons and other fruits, while adding some vitamin calcium powder, remember not to feed pork. Every year in November, the temperature begins to drop, allowing them to hibernate naturally, before making sure to take a bath in warm water, excrete the feces in the body, and then prepare thicker moist sand and put it in the morning sun. In March of the following year, the temperature began to rise, at this time the turtle's physique is very weak, feeding less, and to ensure that the temperature is maintained above 20 degrees. Yellow edge in the south of China is widely distributed, foreign only distributed in Japan, our more common varieties are Anhui yellow edge and Taiwan yellow edge of the point, Anhui yellow edge because of the high back armor so get more popularity, Taiwan species of back nail is relatively flat a lot. It is not easy to distinguish when larvae, but there is not much difference in feeding methods. In short, the yellow edge is physically strong and adaptable, and it is a good pet turtle breed.
