Turtles are usually represented lazy, sluggish, dull animals though it absolutely not so. Healthy turtles are rather active, mobile, in particular during reproduction. The majority overland skulls in the nature overcomes huge distances. And on ingenuity of a turtle will give a form to many rodents. Choosing a turtle, be attentive – some unfair sellers can palm off on you a sick animal. To find the healthiest individual among the offered turtles, take some advice.
Instruction
1. First of all examine skin of an animal on existence of ektoparazit (pincers). Look at tooth needles - they have to have identical length. On a front part of the head there should not be horn outgrowths as they prevent a turtle to eat food.
2. Examine an armor. If the turtle incorrectly eats, her armor can be deformed or just to become less strong. Adult turtles have an armor, both belly (plastron), and back (carapace), is firm and is not mobile. The cornea at these animals fastens to a skeleton. On it there should not be scratches and/or other damages. At leathery turtles it is absent. Smooth skin is in its place at an animal.
3. Examine eyes. They should not be stuck together. Neither muddy, nor transparent allocations should not be. During a century there should not be hypostases.
4. The mucous membrane of a mouth and nasal openings have to be free from allocations and deposits. If in an oral cavity or nasal openings there are vials of foam, perhaps, it is pneumonia.
5. At a disease the turtle is often not able to hide the head reflex. Sea and water turtles during a disease can keep on a water surface or behave in it strangely (it often happens at pneumonia). Also wrong situation at turtles can be observed after ingestion of a foreign matter (for example, a big stone).
6. Observe also noise that publishes an animal. Breath of healthy individuals silently though in an unusual situation they can sniff. Foreign sounds, noise at breath can testify to a disease.