Many newcomers are often attracted to the cuteness and vegetarian habits of most tortoises, and due to their long lifespan, they are now one of the most common pets in the family.
However, the headache that makes the new people often have the problem of how to raise, what kind of feeding environment, the adjustment of temperature and humidity and how to choose the combination of food, the following wild forest has consolidated some tortoise common feeding tips, for everyone to learn from the reference, if you feel that something is wrong, you can leave a message to me.
One
About the illumination
The breeding box is professionally equipped with lights with three kinds, UVA, UVB, ceramic lamps. The role of UVA is to dry the back, and the kind of yellow light source and heat after the installation of electricity is UVA, which is actually a sun lamp.
UVB generally emits a white light source or a purple light source, which is a ultraviolet calcium lamp, which only emits light and does not generate heat. UVA UVB these two lights because they are illuminated, so can only be used during the day, the use of timer switch, adjust the group switch, if manual adjustment, you can also open 8-10 hours a day during the day, after seven o'clock in the evening do not have to open it, most of the turtles will choose to sleep a full night at about seven o'clock in the evening.
Ceramic lamp, heat does not emit light, the quality is super good, this lamp can be opened 24 hours, the tortoise's box should choose to match the temperature control, and the important point is that the temperature control is recommended to use only ceramic lamps, other lights can not guarantee the life of use, only ceramic lamps are no problem. Most tortoises, set at 28 degrees below the opening, 32 degrees above the off, you can, this is a long time to accumulate experience Oh.
Two
About humidity Soaking bath
On the issue of humidity, many small partners because of humidity and trouble, some like the dry areas in the north humidity can not be improved, the mat long-term spray water is not good, after a while and then dried up what to do, about this problem, should be added in the feeding box more paper humidifier, leaf volatilization is very fast, if this is not too big effect, it is recommended to buy a nebulizer, or an indoor humidifier with a water pipe (do not blow fog to the turtle, it is easy to get pneumonia over time) so that the humidity will no longer be low.
Some small partners raise several different kinds of tortoises at home, if this is recommended to adjust the humidity as a whole to 60-70%, because the humidity of 60-70 is not harmful to the turtle, no matter how much humidity he adapts to, it is not much different, but too long-term dry for the turtle, some acid-draining turtles will suffer from the risk of stones.
If the overall humidity in the box is not particularly low and has not bought an indoor nebulizer of the students, to the turtle bath is an important way to solve the problem, like Sukada suggests a day or two days a bubble, once ten minutes to 20 minutes can be, the water temperature to the human body perceives the temperature is not hot or cold, 35-40 degrees of water temperature on the line, can not reach the constant temperature standard, soaking in the bath box below a heating pad on the line.
Every three times or so, soak in the bath with a small spoon of electrolyte, a spoon of universal calcium powder spoon on the line, if it is a liquid electrolyte, put a few drops, which can promote the digestion and absorption of tortoises, help defecation, acid, urination, drying, etc.
Remember to take a dry towel and gently dry the tortoise immediately after bathing to avoid the occurrence of colds and colds.
Three
About feeding
On the issue of feeding, tortoises often like to eat vegetables, but this is because it is convenient to feed vegetables in the hands of merchants, grow fast, and form a certain habit of not wanting to eat grain.
After the turtle reaches the player's hands, remember that novices do not use vegetables to feed the turtles, because they feel that the dishes are often better than turtle food, this habit is not easy to change, and the various nutritional fibers of the dishes are uneven, the player does not know which can be fed when buying vegetables, which can not be fed, in the cleaning process, it is likely that there will be pesticide residues.
When feeding a variety of tortoises, I like to take Mazurui as a staple food, and fruit grain as a side grain in the combination of all-in-one grass powder feeding, this turtle food nutritional fiber is more balanced, but also belongs to the international brand letter.
The stomach of the tortoise is not large, only the size of the head, so each feeding is recommended to feed only half to two-thirds of the size of the head, each feeding is recommended to stick a little hay powder, of course, after the soft turtle food in the sticky grass powder with the hand to pinch out the water so that the turtle food and grass powder mixed together and not dry.
In order to ensure the perfect health of the tortoise body, raise a high-backed tortoise, the number of feeding needs to be reduced, twice every three days or once every two days (if sometimes forget to feed nothing, because the tortoise is not afraid of hunger, only afraid of support), why the turtle in the hands of the merchant is not particularly good, because the merchant in order to let the turtle grow up faster, feed the vegetables twice a day, such turtles are growing rapidly, in the childhood can not see too many problems, if you casually look at the turtle in the hands of the merchant more than 20 cm, Just know how ugly it is in general.
Fruit grain is based on the above, and is fed once in ten days. You can also add a little bit of cooked carrots.
About D3 calcium powder, D3 is the energy that the tortoise needs to supplement, tortoises often need a lot of calcium to strengthen their bones, because most of the tortoises are bones, the shell needs strong calcium, feed calcium powder once or twice a week, each time the calcium powder is fed to one-third of the size of the turtle's head, remember to stir in the soaked turtle food to feed.
A few more words
In terms of feeding boxes, tortoises like a larger feeding environment, don't look at can be polycultured, they also have their own territorial awareness, so the feeding box is recommended to buy 80 cm or even more of the feeding box, can not be too large, too large the feeding box is not very good to control the constant temperature, 80 cm to a meter for novices is enough, the larger feeding box is recommended to put more than a few thermohygrometers, easy to observe the temperature and humidity of each corner, and which temperature and humidity meter is broken can be observed and replaced in time. UVB calcium supplement lamp is changed once every six months or so.
In this way, turtle breeding is basically a small expert, how do you know something about tortoises?