For a long time, the breeding of yellow-fronted closed-shell turtles, especially the opening of food, is the most painful experience for lovers, and Jam has always been grumpy about this problem! Occasionally, he was instructed by the big god [Big Ugly] brother and was ecstatic.
The following is a very real experience of the big ugly brother, without permission, please do not reprint (please respect the author's labor results)!
The yellow forehead is beautiful, difficult to serve, easy to sacrifice and more difficult to reproduce, these are well known, but these problems can not stop the pace of efforts of the majority of fans.
Raising yellow forehead for 5 years, a total of 10 downhill turtles, except for one because the injury is too serious to hang up in less than a week, the rest are now healthy and healthy, and the size has grown a lot.
There are many luck factors in this, but I also believe that some of them are desirable in terms of conditioning and breeding, and I will now share some personal experience with you, you can refer to your own situation, please correct the inappropriate places.
It is mainly divided into two parts, conditioning and normal feeding, and breeding is still blank.
1. Conditioning
Personally, I think that the conditioning into unsuccessful luck factors are very large, mainly see the injury of the turtle, the injury is not serious before it is possible to adjust well.
(Here to explain, 99.9% of the downhill amount is injured, and the trauma and internal injuries caused by the bad mode of transportation are very common, and the trauma is not easy to find because of the color and pattern of the turtle shell, and the internal injury is mainly dependent on rp.) ）
Stage 1: Relieve dehydration and replenish physical strength, put into the dark place of the conditioning environment, soak multi-dimensional electrolysis + glucose water for 2 days, soak during the day, dry nutrition at night.
Stage 2: Soak antibiotics for 7 days (I use oxytetracycline or amoxicillin), during which carefully check the surface of the tortoiseshell inch by inch, it must be very, very careful, treat the rotten and smelly places in time, and reduce the chance of deep infection. (Here jam to note that the concentration and dosage of antibiotics must be properly controlled, and the inexperienced dosage should not be used!) ）
Stage 3: bubble astragalus polysaccharide + mommy love for 5 days, continue to check the surface injury, don't think you look very carefully, I have a few 2-3 years of bursting forehead or in the feeding process continue to find some small injuries, but has been self-healing.
Stage 4 (enticing and culture interaction): water juice dripping nose, tomato juice, banana juice, carrot juice mixed with a little mommy love, I choose to dry raise a few hours after the nose drip, last a few days, this time not so stubborn has opened the mouth to bite the hose.
Most of the remaining diehards close their shells because of the sense of urgency (not excluding internal injuries), at this time some methods must be taken to eliminate the urgency of the turtle, as follows:
(1), when there is enough time, put the turtle into the water that is not over the head, the turtle must reach out and breathe at this time, pick a comfortable small stool to sit on the edge of the basin, put the hand in the direction of the glans, let the turtle slowly familiarize with the taste of the person, and feel that the person and the hand will not pose any threat to it, after a little adaptation, slowly shake the fingers, be patient. (Note: This will cause the turtle to chase fingers and toes later, please be careful when wearing slippers in the summer where the turtle is haunted)
(2), contrary to most people's methods, in the face of particularly timid turtles, I do not put the turtle in a quiet dark place, but put the turtle in a place where people often walk, such as the living room, use a shelter to block half of the container, let them adapt to various sounds and light changes, and there is nothing to put some soothing light music. After the boldness is bigger, continue to drip the nose, and after the nose drop, as long as the mouth bar chirping action is generated, change it to food, and soon open your mouth.
2. Normal feeding
Food selection: (banana, tomato, pumpkin, carrot puree) Choose the same mixed turtle food, but mix a small amount of oats (high dietary fiber), start feeding once a week, stool molding 2-3 times a week according to temperature, after a year of feeding will be fed a small amount of moths and molt barley worms.
At present, my forehead from the beginning of conditioning to stool molding from 1 month to 3 months, but here there is a strange phenomenon in Brinell, conditioning to stool molding this period of time carefully observe the dorsal nail part will appear a small amount of new blood soaking phenomenon, after more than ten days automatically disappear, I don't know if you have encountered? It can be discussed.
It is worth mentioning that all the well-conditioned foreheads have never suffered from a little problem in the process of breeding for several years, which is very worry-free, but other species such as box turtles and throats occasionally have small problems.
The adult of the stool formation after one month of conditioning is announced
Two sub-adult mother cloths (bananas fed + turtle food + oats) after 2 months of stool conditioning
Biting my finger while fishing...
Environment: Site restrictions, my environment is very simple, the balcony is free-range, with a semi-enclosed wooden table to do a dodge, under the table placed water basins, the table is full of flower pots.
In fact, in the normal breeding process, the most important thing to pay attention to is food and temperature, many people's forehead maintenance is related to feeding too much animal food, when the temperature rises sharply, pay attention, I choose to put the turtle indoors.
Hibernation: According to some wild data, my black belly and Brinell hibernate, but put into the large sorting box with 8w heating pad to control the temperature to no less than 10 °, the current 5 years of hibernation has not caused any problems, but the impact on reproduction is unknown.
The following figure is a small change in breeding for many years, hoping to give the fans confidence:
More than 1 month after the end of hibernation this year, the popping began:
Fat lady is raised for 4 years, from the beginning of the whole body scales to now basically can not see, from sub-adult to adult, now weigh 1.6 pounds, the arrow indicates that it is the growth pattern of the past few years, this year's pattern has reached 1/3 of the predetermined width, I hope that there will be eggs next year:
Finally, I hope that every turtle friend who loves yellow foreheads will persevere, more people have more strength, more communication and sharing, I believe that sooner or later the problem of fertilization of yellow-fronted eggs will find a solution.
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