Not all as pets choose habitual cats and dogs. More exotic favourites are also popular. The overland turtle is an interesting and unpretentious animal. If you provide her with due leaving, she will please you for a long time.
It is required to you
- - aquarium;
- - soil;
- - lamp;
- - lodge;
- - bowls.
Instruction
1. As the house the aquarium made of natural or organic glass perfectly will be suitable for an overland turtle. Ideally the party of a wall has to exceed five times length of a body of your favourite. If a turtle still small, learn to what sizes representatives of this look that you had not to buy one more not cheap aquarium over time grow. Check tightness of a design and if necessary process joints glass glue, construction mastic or liquid nails.
2. On a bottom of a terrarium it is necessary to put soil. Its structure depends on features of a species of the animal living with you. Usually use sand, sawdust, stones, hay, wood spill. Various types of soil can be combined among themselves. Turtles of some types (for example, a popular Central Asian turtle) like to dig holes. The layer of earth has to be sufficient in order that the animal could indulge in the hobby.
3. Turtles are thermophilic animals therefore it is necessary to maintain temperature, comfortable for them, in a terrarium. It is the simplest to make it by means of the glow lamp. More advanced fans of turtles use infrared or ceramic heaters and also ultra-violet lamps which not only warm a terrarium in terrariums, but also provide to turtles the best comprehensibility of calcium.
4. In a terrarium the turtle should make the shelter where if necessary she will be able to hide. For this purpose it is possible to use a half of a clay flowerpot or to buy a ready lodge in pet-shop. Often shelters for turtles do of lodges for rodents. It is necessary to establish the building opposite to a lamp.
5. Your pet by all means needs ware for food and water. It is better to establish it near a lamp. Do not forget to watch that the turtle received amount of liquid necessary for it and food.