How often are Brazilian tortoises fed? How much do you feed your Brazilian turtle every few days?

Juvenile Brazilian tortoises during their growth and development need to be fed twice a day to provide them with the nutrients they need during their developmental stages.

Feed about the same amount as their heads. Foods to choose from include small fish, shrimp, bread worms, and some other meats. It is also possible to feed some vegetables and cereals. When feeding, pay attention to the balanced combination of food, not just meat.

Why do turtles hibernate? Have the owners ever been anxious that their Brazilian turtles don't eat? How does a tortoise tell if it hibernates?

How to feed a Brazilian tortoise to ensure its health? Studies have found that how much food Brazilian turtles eat and whether they can eat normally is highly dependent on temperature. For the baby Brazilian turtle to grow up healthily, the keeper should pay more attention to the feeding.

How often baby Brazilian tortoises should be fed and how much they should eat each time are very crucial.

Under normal circumstances, how much food a Brazilian turtle eats and whether it can eat normally has a great relationship with temperature. When the temperature is higher, the Brazilian turtle will eat a little more, and at the first point of temperature, the Brazilian turtle will eat less, and in late autumn and winter, it will not eat, because the Brazilian turtle also hibernates. Until the following spring, when the climate gradually warms, the Brazilian turtle will gradually wake up and slowly start to eat normally.

In the process of feeding the baby Brazilian tortoise, you can control its diet reasonably according to the actual situation of its growth. For example, when the Brazilian turtle is only 2-3 cm in size, it can be eaten twice a day; When it grows to 3-5 cm, it can be fed 1-2 times a day; Once it has grown to 5 cm, it can be fed only 1 time a day. When the Brazilian turtle reaches 10 years old, it can be fed 1-2 times a day, while the Brazilian turtle over 25 years old can be fed once every 1 day.

In the spring and summer, the turtles can be fed according to the standard until September, when they begin to prepare for hibernation, and their appetite will increase, and they will eat more food each day, allowing their bodies to store more energy and fat. In this process, it is necessary to increase the amount of food eaten by the Brazilian turtle to meet its actual needs, and also ensure that the Brazilian turtle can store enough energy to help it survive the hibernation period safely.

Feed it about once every two days, and if you need it to grow fast, you have to feed it every day, and the Brazilian turtle won't be eating when it's full! Animal baits such as fish, pork, animal offal, snails, blood worms (mosquito larvae), red filarial worms (earthworms), mealworms (bread worms), fly maggots, and plant baits such as vegetable leaves, rice, melons and fruits can be used. Adhere to the "four determinations" feeding.

Brazilian turtles have a wide range of diets, but fresh meat (such as fish and shrimp, lean pork, etc.) is preferred, when feeding, adhere to the four fixed feeding, after feeding meat feed, and then feed bananas, apples, etc.

Usually juvenile Brazilian tortoises need to be fed once a day, and adult Brazilian tortoises can be fed once every 1-2 days. However, the specific feeding frequency of Brazilian turtles may need to be adjusted according to the season. First of all, you can feed the Brazilian turtle food every day, and you can choose the appropriate turtle food according to the specific age of the Brazilian turtle, and you can also feed meat and vegetables appropriately.

In addition, it is also necessary to change the water quality in time after feeding the Brazilian turtle to avoid the breeding of bacteria.

In spring and summer, the ambient temperature is high, the vitality of the Brazilian turtle is also relatively vigorous, and the food needed is more, so it is recommended to feed once every two days, starting from August, to make reserves for the Brazilian turtle hibernation, so special treatment is given, and the food provided for the Brazilian turtle should be more, at this time it is recommended to feed once a day, starting from October, the weather is gradually getting cooler, and the Brazilian turtle will soon enter the hibernation period, in order to ensure that the stomach and intestines are not damaged during hibernation, the food of the gastrointestinal tract of the Brazilian turtle should be emptied, Therefore, it is necessary to gradually reduce the frequency of feeding until you stop eating for a week and start hibernation.

Feed every other day.

The Brazilian red-eared turtle is an omnivorous turtle that is resistant to hunger, and is mainly carnivorous during artificial breeding, especially in the juvenile and juvenile turtle stage, mostly with small fish and shrimp, lean animal meat, etc. as the main food, and the adult turtle stage can also eat plant feed (bananas, fruits, etc.) and worker compound feed.

In the wild, the diet of adult turtles includes algae, duckweed and other herbaceous plants that emerge from the water, crustaceans such as pythons, small fish, shrimp, and various mollusks such as snail spiders.