How to make turtle food? Let me teach you a simple method

Nowadays more and more people like to keep some small animals at home. After work, coming home and seeing your pet waiting eagerly will lift your mood a lot. Here we are going to talk about some basic knowledge on keeping turtles.

1. What nutrients do turtles need

The nutrients a turtle needs are mainly the five major nutrient elements: protein, fat, carbohydrates, inorganic salts and vitamins.

1. Protein. Protein is the most important for a turtle's growth and development. Turtles take in protein directly from their feed, and they have a relatively high demand for the protein content in feed; the amount of protein needed also varies with different growth stages.

2. Fat. Fat is one of the indispensable components for a turtle's growth and development. It is mainly stored in the body as body fat or used as an energy source for movement.

3. Carbohydrates. The main role of carbohydrates for turtle growth is to supply heat and spare protein in the body.

4. Inorganic salts. Inorganic salts play an extremely important role in a turtle's body. Besides participating in the formation of bones and blood, they also have direct or indirect effects on regulating the body's physiology, and are especially important for the egg-laying and reproduction of parent turtles.

5. Vitamins. When a turtle lacks vitamins, its growth and development will slow down, metabolic disorders will appear, and it will suffer from various diseases.

2. How to make turtle food

Buying feed on the market is not only troublesome, but the price is not cheap either, and much of the leftover food we eat can often be used as turtle food. Here we will briefly introduce how to make turtle food by hand.

When making the feed, first dry and collect some scraps, then grind them into powder with a grinder, add some yeast tablets and nutritional powder, and after stirring evenly it can be fed to the turtles. Things that are relatively easy to collect include crab shells, shrimp shells, fish bones, fish scales, fruit peels and vegetables. These foods are not only rich in various proteins, fats and vitamins, but also contain a variety of trace inorganic salts, all of which are good nutrients for turtles.

The above is some basic knowledge about keeping turtles. Those of you keeping turtles should not only pay attention to providing turtles with sufficient nutrition, but also prevent turtles from “escaping”, which can cause fall injuries or death.