More often in modern houses contain water skulls. Representatives of krasnoukhy and marsh types are most widespread. They are beautiful and are pleasing to the eye the slow movement in an aquarium. To provide to a water turtle necessary conditions for life, it is necessary to know about features of its feeding.
It is required to you
- - low-fat beef;
- - meat of hens;
- - fish;
- - beef liver and heart;
- - shrimps;
- - insects;
- - snails and slugs;
- - floating plants;
- - vitamins and minerals.
Instruction
1. Make a diet of kormleniyavodny reptiles it is necessary to feed with proteinaceous food: beef and chicken meat, fish, beef liver and heart. Offer a turtle once a week small cut crude beef liver, heart and fish. And, if fish sea, it has to be soaked, and small river it suits to the use at once. Separate only large fish bones, cut meat on pieces and feed a turtle. A specific place in a diet is held by crab meat and the crude shrimps are a delicacy for reptiles and it is very useful for their armor.
2. Treat turtles Krom of meat and fish surely give to an adult turtle of cockroaches, bugs, larvae of a flour cockchafer and water snails: big pond snail and coil horn. During the warm period of year be not too lazy to collect caterpillars, earthworms and slugs. Grow up a duckweed, gigrofila and bakopa in a separate aquarium - adult turtles can eat plants. Treat a turtle with leaves of lettuce and a dandelion, having put them on a water surface.
3. Make a feeding diet for young people the cherepashekmalenky individuals need carefully picked up menu. The various forage contributes to the correct development of an armor and growth of kids. In the first 3 months of life give meadow plankton – it supports many insects who got there during mowing of a grass. The special dry mix containing fish flakes (10%), shrimps (50%) and bokoplav (40%) will become addition during this period. Do not forget to add vitamin D to food – it is vital for turtles. Besides, for growth of an armor enrich a forage with calcium, minerals and other vitamins. Kids whose length is 6 cm, require daily 0.2 g of various components. If the turtle size more than 6 cm, add her to a forage every day 0.5 g of vitamins.
4. Track quantity of the forage eaten by a turtle in 30 minutes – this time is enough for saturation. That food did not remain, from now on offer it exactly as much. Frequency of feeding depends on age of reptiles. Young individuals up to 2 years and pregnant females have to eat daily, and the diet has to be various, with inclusion in food of a large amount of calcium. To adult turtles 2 years of rather full feeding 2-3 times a week are more senior.
5. Choose a way to kormleniyakormit a turtle it is possible differently: to spread food in water, to give food from tweezers or to leave a forage on the eminence about water. The size of the prepared pieces directly is connected with the size of an individual. That water did not spoil from the food remains, feed a reptile from tweezers not only the cut meat, but also the granulated dry feed. If it is not suitable for you – offer turtles food ashore. That the remains of food were not trampled, leave it in a terrarium no more than for 2-3 hours.