Before getting as a pet a turtle, natatorial or overland, it is necessary to study rules of contents - the animal quite unpretentious at first sight requires thorough care.
It is required to you
- Turtle, terrarium.
Instruction
1. To get a turtle, and her life was comfortable and long, it is necessary to be ready to the fact that it is necessary to spend both time, and money and also to allocate a certain part of the apartment for the place in which there will be a terrarium. Unfortunately, often overland or natatorial skulls get as a toy for children who are not capable to provide an animal to all necessary. As a result many turtles are threatened by painful death for hunger or cold if in time the senior family members do not interfere. Therefore as a canine friend for the child it is better to stop the choice on other animals.
2. The terrarium is necessary for keeping of turtles of the house. Now in specialized shops it is possible to get various models – glass, wooden or from other materials. It is impossible to support turtles on a floor at all - it can lead to death of the pet or to a number of various and dangerous diseases, especially in a frigid climate. Temperature in a terrarium has to be from +28 to +30 degrees. It is extremely undesirable to support several turtles of different types in one terrarium.
3. Overland skulls it is necessary to bathe periodically, washing out them by means of a soft sponge. Water temperature, according to experts, has to be not less than +30 degrees. Water can reach the level of a neck of a turtle, the main thing that it could not get into eyes, ears and a mouth of an animal at all. A clean turtle it is necessary to wipe and watch that she was placed not on a draft. 3-4 times a month are usually enough to bathe turtles.
4. Owners overland skulls need to check claws and a beak of the pet from time to time - if they look too grown, and the turtle feels discomfort and cannot normally eat and move, it is necessary to address the veterinarian. The expert will be able correctly to cut off claws and a beak and also to check a condition of an armor. Usually any care for an armor is not required, only during a molt it is better to grease it with special cream. Means is on sale in shops for animals.