The turtle has stopped eating or drinking, is it hibernating?

It's time to hibernate. Below 15 degrees Celsius, it enters hibernation.

Above 15 degrees Celsius, it slowly wakes up.

Attention should be paid before hibernation:

The first thing to do is to determine if your tortoise can hibernate. Whether the turtle has been eating, defecating, and active well before. Whether the weight is within the normal range according to his size. Whether there are other diseases, whether the carapace, stomach, respiratory tract, etc. are normal.

If all of the above questions are normal, then you can start preparing him for hibernation. (The phrase "let him start" here is because even if the tortoise is not in a healthy state, the tortoise will go into hibernation on its own because the temperature gets lower.) But it's generally hard to wake up again. ）

If it is not normal, then it is better not to let him hibernate. Keep the water temperature of the turtle at about 26 degrees Celsius, so that he does not go into hibernation, and then carry out the symptoms**. Don't let the tortoise hibernate again this winter.

Prepare for hibernation: When the temperature gets colder, the turtle will start to stop eating on its own. Generally, 1 to 2 weeks without food, let the turtle empty the poop in the body.

Pay attention to the state of the turtle during the 1 to 2 weeks, and if there is also an abnormality or lack of energy, it is best not to let the turtle continue to hibernate.

Hibernation: In general, just prepare a small box or box for the tortoise. If you can, you can put sand and let him dig a hole to get into. Don't bury your tortoise artificially so that your tortoise won't wake up.

Put some damp newspapers, towels, etc. in a small box. After placing the tortoise in the box, cover the tortoise with the same damp paper or towel. Do not put turtles and turtles in water to hibernate, it will cause frostbite or even freeze to death.

Once everything is done, you can put him in a quiet, dark, damp corner. Let the tortoise sleep beautifully for a winter.

During hibernation: During hibernation, you still have to take care of the tortoise.

Spray some water on the paper or towel on the tortoise every few days, not too much, preferably diffusely. Mainly spray around the head.

The temperature of the hibernation place should not be hot and cold, just keep it in a cold state.

When taking care of the turtle, do not disturb the tortoise's sleep. Don't let the turtle wake up too often.

If you want to check if the turtle is alive, you can gently touch the head or limbs, and the turtle will make small movements.

Wake up from hibernation: Turtles generally wake up from hibernation around March.

Because after a winter's sleep, the muscles of the whole body are relatively stiff, especially the stomach and intestines. So don't let him eat right away. Don't put it in the water right away, either. He should be allowed to slowly adapt to the light and surroundings.

After 3 to 4 days after waking up, you can feed him some shelled shrimp meat. Be careful to feed soft foods. This will not hurt the stomach and intestines.

After all the conditions have returned to normal, and the room temperature can be maintained at 10 degrees or more, you can start to let the turtle enter the water. Don't be in a hurry, put it in a place where there is water and land, you can let him go into the water by himself.

Turtles will hibernate, and when the temperature reaches below 15 degrees, the turtles stop eating, and their activity gradually decreases, and they basically begin to enter the hibernation period. It is not until April and May of the next year that they start to eat and enter the growth season. It's not going to die.

Now that I don't eat, I have entered the hibernation period, so the room temperature should not be too high, 0-5 degrees is the most suitable, so that the turtle is not very active and reduces the consumption of physical energy. If the temperature is too high, the turtle will keep crawling, which will consume a lot of physical energy, which is not good for the turtle.

I also have a couple at home.

Normal, winter is not to eat, you don't have to feed, no need to change the water, the water is dirty, put the water in the basin, put him in the city where he stays for 24 hours, and then change it at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon or 9 o'clock in the morning, the water temperature should be the same as the temperature in the tank, originally these turtles we raised are tropical creatures, not frost resistant, don't let the temperature difference be big, damage his body, I generally keep the temperature around it at about 9 degrees, try to change the water as little as possible in winter, the water is changed all year round, This is the key to raising him.

First, the ambient temperature has not yet reached the temperature at which they are eating. Turtles do not eat for a while after hibernation. The main reason is the temperature!

Generally, turtles enter hibernation at about 15 degrees, and when the air and water temperatures are higher than 15 degrees, turtles will go out of hibernation to eat. However, the best feeding temperature for turtles is above 20 degrees. As a result, turtles rarely or do not eat at 15-20 degrees Celsius.

So wait until the water temperature is above 20 degrees, and most healthy turtles will naturally eat. So in this case, the owner doesn't have to worry.

The second scenario is when the turtle becomes ill during hibernation. Turtles have reduced resistance and immunity while hibernating, and they still have no energy intake. So the chance of getting sick is greatly increased.

This is also the reason why large turtles are rarely seen in the wild) Most of the sick pure turtles are sluggish and lose their appetite. In severe cases, there will be symptoms such as floating. As for what the disease is, it is up to the owner to observe and understand.

After the diagnosis of the disease, the right medicine is prescribed to restore the turtle's health, and the appetite for food will slowly recover.

A: Because the weather is too cold in winter, but the burrows in the land are warm and comfortable, so the turtle can not eat.

Turtles that don't die generally hibernate.

If you don't sleep in winter, you can't sleep because it's too warm indoors, and you won't die if you don't hibernate or eat.

Turtles don't die even if they don't eat for half a year to 1 year. When the temperature comes up in spring, the turtle will eat, whether the turtle hibernates depends on the environmental conditions it is in, the turtle is an ectothermic animal, can not maintain the body temperature of the pure and stable, will change with the ambient temperature, if it is in the natural environment of the temperate region, when winter comes, its body temperature will be reduced to the extent that it cannot move normally and forage for food and must hibernate, and in the tropics, the tortoise will not hibernate. In a state of hibernation, the tortoise's metabolism is very slow, the nutrient consumption is very low, and there is no problem not eating food for a winter.