What food does the golden coin turtle eat? Detailed feeding points
The golden coin turtle is an omnivorous turtle that likes to dwell in rocky or mud burrows on hillsides near water areas, dives to the bottom when startled, and often forages for various aquatic animals in mountain streams or damp places. Because it has characteristics such as a wide diet, strong disease resistance and hunger tolerance, and strong vitality, let us take a look below at what food the golden coin turtle eats!
What the golden coin turtle eats
The golden coin turtle is an omnivorous turtle species. In nature it mainly preys on aquatic animals such as snails, fish, shrimp, and tadpoles in the water, and also eats young rats, small fish, shrimp, snails, young frogs, scarab beetles, earthworms, snails, and fly maggots. Sometimes it also eats pumpkin, banana, and tender plant stems and leaves and seeds. Under artificial rearing conditions, it likes to eat animal offal, earthworms, lean meat, small fish, and mixed feed.
Feed for the golden coin turtle
The feed for raising golden coin turtles is divided into two main categories: animal-based feed and plant-based feed. Animal-based feed includes lean pork, animal offal, fish, shrimp, shellfish meat, and so on, while plant-based feed includes banana (peeled) and apple, and so on. Feeding is mainly based on animal-based feed, with the two types of feed used alternately. The number of plant-based feed feedings is about 1/7 of the number of animal-based feed feedings. From investigating the eating conditions of golden coin turtles, it can be seen that golden coin turtles most like to eat lean pork among animal-based feeds and banana among plant-based feeds.
Feeding of the golden coin turtle
1. Newly hatched hatchlings: newly hatched hatchlings still carry a yolk sac. Within 2-3 days, the hatchlings' nutrition is supplied by this yolk sac, so there is no need to feed the hatchlings. After 2-3 days, feed them small fish, shrimp, earthworms, and a little rice and vegetables, and so on.
2. Juvenile turtles and adult turtles: the feed mainly includes fish, shrimp, river snails, mussel meat, earthworms, as well as pumpkin, vegetable leaves, and commercial feed, and so on. When feeding, it depends on the season, water temperature, and the growth condition of the turtle. Generally, the daily feeding amount is controlled at about 5% of their own body weight. Persist in feeding at fixed times, in fixed amounts, and with fixed quality, so that the turtles eat well and eat their fill. During hibernation, the golden coin turtle has no feeding behavior, so there is no need to feed.