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Symptoms and Prevention and Treatment Methods of White Plastron Disease in Soft-shelled Turtles
White plastron disease is a difficult and complicated turtle disease that has appeared since 1996. It is currently the most harmful turtle disease, with the highest mortality rate and the greatest treatment difficulty. If not treated in time, it can cause all of them to die. At present, there is considerable controversy over the pathogen of this disease. The reported pathogens include: 1) Bacteria: the pathogens are Aeromonas hydrophila, Proteus, and Edwardsiella tarda. 2) Virus: spherical virus with a diameter of 80nm. 3) Cross-infection: death occurs after viral infection is followed by secondary bacterial infection. The author believes that, based on the analysis of the particularly obvious effect of adding vitamins during treatment,
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What to Do About Low Hatch Rates in Female Turtles? Cause Analysis and Solutions
Artificial turtle farming has sprung up in many places in recent years, especially as the soft-shelled turtle market has flattened while the turtle market has held firm, prompting many soft-shelled turtle farmers to switch to turtles. But farmers have found that although some female turtles lay a good number of eggs, the fertilization rate is not high and the hatch rate is low, especially with eggs from turtles at their first laying age, where the fertilization rate is even lower. Many people assume the female turtle is the problem, little realizing that the cause does not lie with the female turtle at all, but is mainly related to factors in the male turtle itself. Through practice, people have found that in nature many animals show differences in the timing of sexual development
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Recipe for Clear-Stewed Soft-Shelled Turtle with Water Chestnut: clear soup, fresh flavor, delicate and tender meat
Features: The broth is clear and mellow, the meat is tender and falling apart, the skirt is smooth, and it is rich, fresh and fragrant. Ingredients: 1 soft-shelled turtle (about 750 g), 1 ham bone, 100 g ham meat, 10 g each of scallion knot, ginger slices, rock sugar, and cooked lard, 1 g refined salt, 25 g Shaoxing wine, 1 g white pepper, 750 g clear chicken broth. Preparation: 1. Slaughter the soft-shelled turtle, blanch it in boiling water, peel off the outer membrane, cut open along the shell with a knife, lift off the shell, remove the innards (keep the turtle shell), and chop into pieces about 3.5 cm long and 1
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How to cultivate green-haired turtles? Cultivation method with Angelica and Pine Needle Solution
When using the yellow-margined box turtle (Mauremys mutica) or other aquatic turtles to cultivate green-haired turtles, whether using the green water method, direct method, grafting method, or spore water method, it takes at least 40-50 days before the sprouting tips of Basicladia chelonum (turtle-shell basicladia algae) can be seen emerging on the turtle shell. Only the Angelica and Pine Needle Solution method achieves the fastest sprouting of Basicladia chelonum and the best results. The formula for Angelica and Pine Needle Solution (calculated for cultivating 100 green-haired turtles): Angelica 200 g, fresh pine needles 200 g, brown sugar 100 g, calcium tablets 40 tablets, vitamin B12 20 vials. First
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Turtle Drowning
Cause: Semi-aquatic turtles kept for a long time in a pool with water that is too deep cannot get onto land and can only float at the surface, stretching out their necks to breathe; after a long time, the turtle becomes exhausted and inhales water. Sometimes when the water is changed, the water level suddenly rises, and large fluctuations on the water surface can also cause drowning in turtles. Symptoms: The turtle's neck becomes swollen and fat, and its limbs are weak. After dissection, the lungs are filled with water, and there is a relatively large amount of water in the abdominal cavity. Prevention and treatment: After discovering a sick turtle, hold the turtle head downward so that water flows out through the nostrils, and use a finger to press the turtle's limb sockets, squeezing rhythmically. For a turtle with mild drowning, place it in a ventilated place and let it slowly recover.
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How to Raise Adult Turtles? Detailed Explanation of Feeding Methods and Technical Key Points
The area of an adult turtle pond should preferably be 100 sq m, and about 10 juvenile turtles can be stocked per sq m. The pond water for adult turtles should be kept light green (transparency of about 30 cm). If the transparency is too high, the turtles will feel insecure; if the transparency is too low, the water will be brownish green, the water quality will be too fertile, and it will easily cause eutrophication, which is also bad for raising turtles. The feeding method for adult turtles varies by season. In spring and autumn, when the water temperature is low, adult turtles do not come out much in the early morning or evening, so they should be fed at 10 a.m.; in midsummer
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How to Keep and Care for Red-Eared Slider Turtles
English name: slider. Common names: red-eared slider, painted turtle, green turtle. Origin and season: Distribution: United States, Mexico, Brazil and other countries. Introduction: Its taxonomic status is the family Emydidae, genus Trachemys. Morphological features: Medium body size, relatively small head, blunt snout, longitudinal stripes of interlocking yellow and green on the head and neck, and a pair of red patches behind the eyes. The carapace is flat, with ring-shaped green markings on each scute, and the rear edge is not serrated. The plastron is pale yellow with black ring-shaped markings, resembling
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Detailed guide to making the medicinal dish Dwarf Lilyturf-steamed Soft-shelled Turtle
The traditional Chinese medicine dish of Dwarf Lilyturf-steamed Soft-shelled Turtle has the effects of nourishing yin and invigorating blood, softening hardness and dispersing nodules. Although it can serve as a family soup dish in autumn, it can also assist in treating splenomegaly after diseases such as amenorrhea in women and malaria. Dwarf Lilyturf (Herba Lycopi) is slightly warm in nature, enters the liver and spleen meridians, and has the effects of invigorating blood and nourishing blood. The Lei Gong Pao Zhi Lun says it "can break blood and unblock long-standing accumulations"; soft-shelled turtle, also known as Chinese softshell turtle or biē, is neutral in nature and sweet in taste, with the effects of nourishing yin and blood, softening hardness and dispersing nodules. The Compendium of Materia Medica holds that it can "eliminate chronic malaria and malarial masses," and the Essentials of Materia Medica also records that it "cools blood and supplements yin, and also treats malaria." Ingredients: Dwarf Lilyturf
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Detailed Explanation of the Medicinal Value and Processing Methods of Turtle Plastron
1. Medicinal value of turtle plastron. Turtle plastron is slightly cold in nature, slightly salty in taste, and has a faint fishy odor. It contains gelatin, calcium salts, fat, keratin, and other substances. It has effects such as tonifying the heart and kidneys, nourishing yin and reducing fire, and subduing yang to relieve deficient heat. It is often made into turtle plastron glue, used for nourishing yin and subduing yang, tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the bones, enriching the blood and stopping bleeding, and for many conditions such as steaming bone tidal fever, flaccidity and weakness of the sinews and bones, dizziness and tinnitus, insomnia and forgetfulness, excessive menstruation, seminal emission, and night sweats. It is effective for lung disease, gastric bleeding, hypertension, cirrhosis, unnamed swellings and toxic lesions, and yin deficiency in women. 2. Turtle plastron glue
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What are the main technical measures for polyculture of fish and soft-shelled turtles?
1. Pond renovation: Build a 30 cm high escape-prevention wall around the pond, with the four corners rounded into arcs, smooth the inner wall with cement, and it is best to have an inverted-L-shaped coping on top of the wall to prevent the old soft-shelled turtles from escaping. Set up bamboo rafts in the fish pond as sunning platforms for the old soft-shelled turtles to bask their backs, and there is no need to add other necessary equipment such as feeding platforms. 2. Reasonable stocking: filter-feeding fish that feed on plankton, omnivorous fish, and herbivorous fish can all be polycultured in the same pond with old soft-shelled turtles, but black carp should not be stocked in fish-turtle polyculture ponds. 3. Reasonable stocking density of old soft-shelled turtles. If the main approach is to use
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