Turtles are one of the most ancient beings recent on the earth. They is more than 200 have some years. Many get to themselves these animals, thinking that they are unpretentious and I do not demand a special care. However it not so.
Instruction
1. The turtle has to be in the special fenced-off place - an aquarium at the bottom of which it is better to put a thick layer of special filler or paper. The aquarium surely has to be warmed and be lit with the lamp. In the afternoon the turtle likes to get warm under a lamp, from it it has an appetite. In the winter the lamp is simply obligatory.
2. The turtle in a drinking bowl surely has to have always water. Bowls should not be very deep as overland beings can choke.
3. Availability of calcium in a diet is extremely important for health of a turtle. It is necessary for fortress and the correct development of an armor. Buy calcium in pet-shop. Give it, strictly following instructions, observance of a dose is extremely important.
4. Look after an armor. Rub it by means of a cotton pad with vegetable oil in the summer. It not only will improve its appearance, but also will become protection if in the summer at the dacha she is caught in the rain. Oil will not allow to become wet to an armor.
5. Surely you watch appetite of the turtle living in the house. If she the average size, at the same time has excellent health, then in day she has to eat about a half of a salad head of cabbage or the same volume of other vegetable food. If the turtle does not eat or eats very little, show her to the veterinarian. It is better if you regularly weigh a turtle and to write down data in a notebook.
6. In the winter of a turtle, as well as many other animals, fall into anabiosis. During hibernation, activity processes slow down, there is rare pulse, other exchange processes fade. Usually falling into hibernation depends on weather. If good warm weather lasts long, then the turtle can not sleep till October, usually they keep within on winter quarters in September.
7. When you notice that the turtle is ready to fall into hibernation, it needs to be placed in a winter container. It can be a cardboard or wooden box with a large amount of sawdust or shavings in which the being will bury. This box needs to be put in more a box in which heat-insulating material, for example, of the newspaper, polyfoam or peat is put.
8. You store a winter container in dark and cool (but not cold) the place where constant temperature is maintained. Check it not more often than once a week.
9. In the spring when the turtle wakes up, she requires the enhanced attention. At first the pet rather sluggish, without special appetite therefore offer several types of its favourite food that it chose. Add vitamins to water.