How to raise snapping turtles

The growth of snapping turtles also needs a good environment. When cultivated outdoors, the pond is constructed in the same way as the snake snapping turtle in front. When cultured indoors, the water depth is slightly higher than the turtle's back, not more than twice the height of the turtle's back at most, and it does not need to be too deep.

In order to provide a place for turtles to bask in their backs and roost, the aquarium provides a stone above the water for turtles to climb and bask in their backs. If you keep turtles indoors, make sure that crocodiles bask in the sun for more than ten minutes every day. The bottom of the tank can be covered with pebbles or pebbles. Do not put aquatic plants in the water.

2. Crocodile turtles are stocked

Choose healthy and energetic snapping turtles, and those who are sick and injured are not suitable for stocking. Strict grading stocking, because snapping turtles are fierce, so they are raised in different pools according to their size, and cannot be mixed, so as not to affect the growth of small turtles. The stocking density should be appropriate. Each square meter can be stocked with 1 group of breeding turtles (1 male turtle and 2 females), or 3 groups of medium turtles, or 5- 10 groups of young turtles, or 10-20 groups of young turtles.

Feed supply

The feeding habits of crocodiles

Crocodile turtles eat all kinds of food, such as wild fruits, plant stems and leaves, shrimp, crab, fish, loach, maggots, snails, silkworm chrysalis, earthworms, Tenebrio molitor, leeches, frogs, toads, salamanders, meat and so on. Under the condition of artificial feeding, fish, pork, beef and poultry offal and puffed feed can be fed, and plant foods such as apples and vegetable leaves can also be fed.

Fixed feed

When feeding snapping turtles, the bait should be fixed in one place or several places, not all over the pond. You can put a board under the water near the slope for feeding. Once the bait is fed in a fixed place, it should not be changed frequently, which is very beneficial to cultivate good eating habits of snapping turtles, and it is also convenient to check their eating and health in time.

Rationing feeding

When feeding snapping turtles, the dosage of compound feed is generally 1.5% ~ 2.5% of the total weight of snapping turtles, and fresh feed accounts for 5% ~ 10% of the total weight. You can also raise some snails, mussels and fish in the pond, which can not only use the water body, but also reduce the amount of bait.

Regular feeding

Feeding under natural conditions, feeding 1 time a day in early spring and early winter, and feeding at noon when the temperature is high. The late spring to late autumn is the feeding season for soft-shelled turtles, and they are fed twice every morning at 9-10 and 4-5 pm, with the feeding amount in the morning accounting for 40% of the total feeding amount, the feeding amount in the afternoon accounting for 60%, and the feeding time is within 90- 150 minutes. If you haven't finished eating, you can give less feed next time.

Fixed mass feed

You must pay attention to the quality when feeding crocodiles. Big food should be cut into small pieces, hard food should be soaked in soft water, raw and cooked. The little turtle should be fed with nutritious concentrate to facilitate digestion. Deteriorated feed should not be used, and varieties should not be single.

Do bait training well

At the beginning of feeding, snapping turtles were not used to coming to the food table. According to their habit of foraging at night, they can feed food near the eating table at night, gradually transition to the eating table, and slowly tame the bait. Check the eating situation the next morning, mainly to see if there is any surplus, and make records.

3. Water control

Water quality control

Crocodile turtles like to live in a clean water environment, so they should pay attention to changing new water during feeding. Under the condition of intensive and high-density breeding of soft-shelled turtle, its food intake and excrement are more, and the water temperature is higher, and the feed pollutes the water quality faster, so it is easy to produce more harmful substances, especially ammoniated nitrite and hydrogen sulfide. At this time, spraying and applying photosynthetic bacteria on the bottom can effectively improve the water quality and reduce the influence of harmful substances on snapping turtles.

At the same time, photosynthetic bacteria with the concentration of 10 ~ 15 mg/L were applied every time new pond water was added. Strengthening water exchange is also an effective way to regulate water quality. Local water change 1 time in large ponds for 20-40 days, and local water change 1 time in small ponds for 5-7 days, with the transparency maintained at 20-25 cm.

Water temperature control

To ensure the survival rate of snapping turtles, it is necessary to keep the water temperature environment stable. The scientific regulation of water temperature directly affects the weight gain and survival rate of adult turtles. Keeping the water temperature at 28 ~ 30℃ for a long time is most beneficial to the metabolism and growth of snapping turtles.

On the other hand, the turtle pond, which is changing water or exposed to the outside, must be prevented in time when it encounters bad weather such as heavy rain or sudden temperature change, so as to avoid water temperature fluctuation greater than 2℃. In outdoor pond culture, the water surface of the pond must be 80 cm in summer, and the pond should be shaded above 1/5. Some duckweeds should be raised in the pond, trees should be planted around it, and fresh water should be injected to cool down if necessary, so that the water temperature does not exceed 40℃.

Extended data

Crocodile turtles live in rivers, lakes, ponds and swamps and feed on fish, waterfowl, snails, shrimps and water snakes. I like to lie in the sand, shrubs and aquatic plants. When the snapping turtle floats in the water, it is not easy to be found because of the protective color on its shell-just like a rotten piece of wood floating in the water.

The snapping turtle has outstanding predation ability. He will open his mouth underwater, with a red tongue like a red bug in his mouth, which will keep twisting, making the small fish mistakenly think that it is food swimming past. At this time, the big snapping turtle will bite the fish, which is called fishing.

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