How should a pond turtle be kept? Care methods and precautions

Turtles are divided into many types, and the ones generally more common locally include the pond turtle. How should this kind of turtle be kept? Let's take a look!

1. How to keep a pond turtle

Pond turtles can be kept in a relatively warm place, and remember that the water temperature must not be too hot; in winter, when the temperature is below 15 degrees, they will slowly begin to enter hibernation. Normally, feed them mainly small dried shrimp, or supplement other calcium; do not feed too much at one time.

2. What do turtles eat

1. Animal-based feed: such as earthworms, silkworm pupae, snails, yellow mealworms, small fish and shrimp, snails, mussels and shellfish, as well as animal by-products such as pig blood, internal organs, and moths and insects, etc. (these can be caught at night with a black-light lamp).

2. Plant-based feed: such as soybean cake, peanut cake, corn, sorghum, wheat, and even rice and millet can also be fed to turtles. Fruit and vegetable plants can also be appropriately mixed in to feed turtles, such as pumpkin, winter melon, watermelon rind, apple peel, duckweed and tender grass, and potato-type foods, etc.

3. Mixed feed: this feed is comprehensive in nutrition and also comes in many varieties, divided by growth stage into hatchling, juvenile and adult turtle feed. Using this feed to feed turtles has very notable results, and their growth rate, egg-laying rate, egg production, hatching rate and survival rate are also all improved to some extent.

That is all that Tuliu.com has summarized and organized today regarding some pond turtle farming questions. We hope it can be helpful for everyone's farming.