The question concerning many owners overland skulls consists even not in that, how exactly to organize a watering place for the wards, and in whether drinking water in principle is necessary to them.
To give to drink or not to give to drink?
In this respect there are several points of view, however there is no universal answer – each case should be considered separately. In the nature the Central Asian turtles live in conditions of a lack of moisture and, as a rule, seldom have an opportunity to drink much. Therefore the nature at them provided the mechanism of receiving necessary liquid from food. Eating juicy plants, turtles compensate for the deficiency of water and can feel long time without drink absolutely remarkably.
There are, however, situations when turtles need additional moisture. The dehydrated reptiles really drink water, and do it very willingly. If you give to the favourite a dry feed or juicy components in her diet are not really numerous, it is necessary to take care of additional liquid. Dry ingredients of a kormosmesa can be soaked previously, and to sprinkle lettuce leaves, segments of vegetables or fruit water just before giving to a turtle.
The refreshing bathing
Important addition to juicy sterns for overland turtles are regular water procedures. Moisturizing the skin, turtles have an additional opportunity to saturate gentle parts of the body with moisture and to fill its stock. Besides, during bathing of a turtle gain a small amount of water in a foul place from where it is also soaked up in blood. If your terrarium is not equipped with the pool or a reservoir into which the turtle can plunge, if desired, time in 1-2 weeks she surely should settle bathtubs. If reptiles contain in the summer in the covered open-air cage or on a loggia, bathings need to be organized depending on air temperature. During a heat when stem of thermometer rises higher than 28 wasps, it is necessary to bathe turtles once a week. If the summer not really dry and hot, is enough to be limited to two bathtubs a month.
Arrange a drinking bowl
If you doubt whether enough moisture your alumna receives, and want it to have an access to drinking water constantly, it is possible to equip its terrarium with a special drinking bowl. It can be and a usual vodoyemchik – reptiles very much like to plunge sometimes into them and to reflect on the turtle life. You watch that water in a drinking bowl was clear and fresh. If the turtle wants to get drunk – she will always have such opportunity. However be ready to the fact that not the watering place, but desire as soon as possible will become the first and main goal of your alumna to overturn a new subject in the environment.