How should you care for a turtle during hibernation?

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Many people in daily life like to keep pet turtles at home, but for a beginner with no breeding experience, when winter comes, they do not even know how to care for a turtle that needs to hibernate? Today we will explain it as follows:

1. Fattening up

Fattening up means feeding the turtle until it is full. Turtles enter hibernation starting in October, so from September onward, let it eat its fill at every meal, feeding it 2 times a day for a month; once it has stored enough fat, it can make it through the winter safely.

2. Emptying the digestive tract

While feeding the turtle to fatten it up, note that you must not feed it during the week before hibernation; you need to help it empty its digestive tract. If a turtle enters hibernation with a full stomach, it will get digestive illness. What we need to do is appropriately raise the water temperature to help the turtle digest its food and empty its digestive tract.

3. Prepare the tools for the turtle's hibernation

Turtles like to hibernate in sand or soil, so you need to prepare sand and soil in advance, pour sand and soil into the container where the turtle is kept, then crumple paper into balls and cover the container with them. Later you can add water to the sand, but do not dig into the sand too frequently to look for the turtle.

4. Temperature

The temperature during a turtle's hibernation is best kept above 15 degrees; there is no need to take it out to bask in the sun, as too high a temperature will cause it to wake up early and consume a large amount of fat, which may cause the turtle to starve to death during hibernation.

Summary: In fact, keeping turtles is relatively simple and does not take too much time. But the early preparation for turtle hibernation still requires us to put in extra care. The above is about how to care for turtles during hibernation, and we hope it can help everyone.