Management measures for turtle breeding in summer
1. The temperature is too high in summer When the time comes, take necessary cooling measures to the tortoise in time to ensure that the tortoise’s appetite will not be affected. High temperature will affect the appetite of the turtle. If the temperature is too high, higher than 33℃, the pet should pay attention to keeping the turtle in a shaded place, and take cooling measures if necessary to avoid heat stroke.
2. When the ambient temperature is too high, the pet owner can place some floating lotus in the turtle pond to ensure that the turtle has a place to perch and escape the heat, and it can also play a role in regulating the water quality. effect. In addition, pets should pay attention to avoid changing the water during the high temperature at noon. In summer, changing the water for tortoises should be done in the early morning as much as possible.
3. Arrange the feeding time reasonably. In summer, it is best to feed the tortoise in the morning or after 18:00 in the evening, because the temperature in these two time periods is relatively suitable, and the tortoise’s appetite is better.
4. Ensure that the food fed to the turtle is fresh and nutritious. Because high temperature weather can easily lead to the deterioration of food, especially the chilled feed, feeding the turtles in summer should be fed immediately and pay attention to check whether the feed has deteriorated before feeding. In addition, 1 hour after feeding the tortoise, it is necessary to clean up the remaining food residue in time to prevent the remaining food from spoiling in the water, affecting the water quality and endangering the tortoise’s health. In addition, the pet owner must ensure that the food fed to the turtle is nutritionally balanced. It is best to combine animal feed and plant feed for feeding, and a small amount of antibiotics can also be added to the tortoise’s feed to prevent the tortoise from gastrointestinal diseases.
5. Use drugs to prevent common turtle diseases in summer. When preventing common diseases of tortoises in summer, antibiotics and other drugs must not be abused to the tortoises. This is not only unfavorable for the prevention and treatment of tortoise diseases, but also makes the tortoise’s body resistant to drug resistance, and even causes harm to the tortoise’s health, so pay attention to reasonable Prevent turtle disease.
6. Skin rot and tortoise rot are some diseases that turtles often appear in summer, and these diseases are usually caused by poor water quality, and the water quality is easy to deteriorate in summer, so in summer, pet owners should It is necessary to increase the frequency of water changes and keep the water quality of the water used for breeding turtles clean, which is necessary to prevent turtles from getting sick.
The above are some of the precautions for raising turtles in summer that we have summarized, I hope they can be helpful to you.
