But can the Brazilian tortoise be raised with drinking water that humans drink?

Updated on pet 2024-03-18
6 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    If the drinking water you are talking about is well water, cool boiled water or even pure water, you can use drinking water to nourish it. Heat up the turtle slightly, and don't give it cold water (especially well water that feels very cold) even in summer. Brazil does not need separate heating or UV series lamps, and it is enough to ensure that you see the light every day.

    In winter, you can bask in the sun for an hour or two in the afternoon, and don't put it directly under the sun in summer.

    If you're drinking tap water, it's exempt. That thing is very harmful to turtles, especially turtle seedlings, and the vast majority of conjunctivitis is caused by water.

    When it comes to food, there are individual differences, and you can try several different foods to see which ones it likes. Commonly used are live fish and shrimp, loaches, blood bugs and lean meat, and you can try other species yourself. Don't feed bread worms, barley worms, or red worms, and don't rely too much on turtle food.

    Brazil generally does not require additional reptile nutrients.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    It eats shrimp and raises it on tap water.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Yes, but after a long time, the turtle's body will be deficient in trace elements.

    It is recommended to use tap water that has been left for two days.

    1. Brazilian tortoise.

    It is a relatively easy turtle species to raise. However, this does not mean that you can raise them indiscriminately, and you still need to pay attention to the method of raising Brazilian turtles.

    2. Feeding rules:

    Adults are recommended 3 times a week, but hatchlings can be once a day. Brazilian tortoises have a keen sense of sight and smell, so they are very good at grabbing food. Under artificial breeding conditions, they prefer to eat animal bait, such as fish, pork, animal offal, mussels, snails, blood worms (midges larvae), and red filarial worms (earthworms).

    Mealworms. bread worms), maggots, etc., food should not have thorns and bones to avoid injury to the turtle.

    It is better to feed fresh raw meat, the meat becomes hard after cooking, and the turtle does not like to eat hard things. Brazilian turtles love shrimp. Adult or elderly Brazilian tortoises are extremely hungry, and some turtles will eat plants such as leaves, rice, and soft melons and fruits, but this is relatively rare.

    Young turtles basically eat only meat. The red-eared turtle has no selective feeding time, and eats evenly day and night. In the state of hunger, there is a rush to eat, and the phenomenon of eating too much and eating too much occurs.

    3. Hatchling turtle rearing:

    Juvenile Brazilian tortoises can be raised in flat-bottomed containers, plastic pots, plastic troughs, glass tanks or boxes, and aquariums are all suitable.

    Each baby turtle should have 5 litres of water to move around, and the depth of the water should not exceed the length of the turtle's body, so that the turtle can hold its feet to the ground when it breathes at the surface. At the same time, they must also be made of bricks and stone chips or buy a sundeck so that the turtle can dry its back. Floating islands are not suitable because hatchlings often can't climb up.

    The water temperature that the hatchlings can adapt to is about Celsius.

    23-28 degrees. When it's cold, the air on the container should also be warmed, and adding a shade light to the tank can give you the best of both worlds. If the water temperature is still too low, you can set a heating rod in the water to adjust the temperature as much as possible.

    4. Adult turtle breeding:

    Adult turtles need much larger tanks so that they have enough room to move. To create an ideal environment, a pair of grown Brazilian tortoises need at least 100 litres of water. If the tank is too small, the Brazilian turtle will quickly become obese and sluggish, and if it falls into the water on all fours, it will drown because it cannot roll over.

    There have also been cases of tortoiseshell stunting due to the size of the culture container. Large plastic basins, aquariums or large wooden containers with plastic sheeting can be used as turtle troughs. The most convenient is the trough with drainage holes, as it is easy to change the water and clean frequently.

    In order to make the water temperature in the breeding tank reach the temperature preferred by the Brazilian turtle, the heating rod used in the aquarium is used, and the equipment and wiring should be prevented from getting stuck in the Brazilian turtle. The electric felt can also be placed at the bottom of the outside of the breeding box, and the synthetic resin rubber can be padded under the electric felt as an insulating material. However, the water temperature should not be higher than the outside temperature (about 25 to 30 degrees Celsius) to prevent the Brazilian turtle from catching cold.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    Ordinary water is fine, and if you are worried about the influence of impurities in the tap water, you can let it stand for a period of time before raising it. The Brazilian turtle is too fierce, basically has no natural enemies, rampant in nature, very harmful, and does not necessarily have a high IQ and more human nature, it is better to buy two old turtles in the market to raise, raise them, or if there are changes in the future, they can no longer be raised and can be used to make soup.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    No. Turtles are cold-blooded animals that stay in the water for a long time and need to go to land every once in a while to bask in the sun.

    It's okay for a normal Brazilian painted turtle, but don't have too much water, just enough to cover its shell. Especially in summer, be sure to put the turtle in a cool place, the water must not be too much, because the turtle is more prone to heat stroke in summer, once the turtle has heat stroke, the first limbs will appear outside the shell, can not be taken back, the state is very like dead, if there is too much water, the turtle will be drowned.

    If you want to eat more casually, you can use the special feed for turtles, and if you don't have it, you can feed some live food. For example, bread worms and small fish. It is necessary to change the water frequently, because the turtle is actually a very delicate thing, and the poor water quality can easily cause the turtle to develop eye diseases, leading to blindness and death.

    Breeding place. There are many ways to raise turtles in captivity, such as pond culture, tank culture, wood pot culture and reservoir pond culture, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, and you can choose according to local conditions. For general professional households and small-scale farms, it is better to build ponds for breeding, because this way is convenient to manage and the economic benefits are also greater.

    Construction of breeding ponds: Hatchling ponds and breeding ponds can be constructed with reference to the specifications and methods of the hatchling ponds and breeding ponds of the golden turtle. The construction of the adult turtle pond is similar to that of the golden turtle, but the area can be larger to allow for a larger number of turtles.

    If the adult turtle pond is larger, you can also fish and turtle polyculture, and raise some herbivorous and filter-feeding fish in the pond to improve the comprehensive economic benefits of aquaculture. It should be noted that turtles also have the characteristics of burrowing and easy to escape, so the base of the fence should be about 50 cm deep underground.

    Precautions. 1) The slag should be raised in separate pools of young turtles, adult turtles and parent turtles, so as to avoid the current suspicion that large turtles swallow small turtles, and it is also convenient to determine the amount of feed and feeding management, so as to observe and grasp the growth of turtles.

    2) Because the turtle has a gentle temperament and is timid, the surrounding area of the feeding pond should be kept quiet, so as not to affect the normal activities of the turtle such as feeding, basking in the sun, mating, and laying eggs.

    3) Change the water of the breeding pond frequently, keep the water of the pond clean, and do a good job of hygiene in the feeding pond to prevent the turtle from getting sick.

    4) The sand and soil in the open space between the pond and the fence should maintain a certain humidity, and in the middle of summer, some cooling measures should be taken, such as sprinkling, planting some small shrubs, etc.

    5) Before the hibernation period, check the growth of the turtle, add more feed to the weak, and feed the turtle more food, so that the turtle can accumulate a lot of nutrients, grow strong and overwinter.

    6) Some turtles don't know how to eat when they are young, at this time, you can grab its left paw, pull out, and then grab its right paw, pull the two together slightly, it will poke out its head, and then gently pinch its head in the left and right directions, and when it opens its mouth, put the shrimp (food) in it, it will know what can be eaten, and the food you put in the future will bite twice.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    No, the turtle is an ectothermic animal, and if you stay in the water for a long time, you need to go to the land every time to bask in the sun.

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