At first sight can seem that it is not necessary to look after a turtle especially: put in a box, and feed occasionally. Actually, care for such special animal has some nuances which need to be known and observed.
Instruction
1. Safe life of a turtle begins with her lodge. The terrarium has to be rather spacious that your pet could walk on it. It is better that it was horizontal and by the sizes corresponded to the sizes of its inhabitant. In a terrarium there has to be a dark place where the turtle will hide from the sun or from human eyes.
2. Make ventilation in a terrarium: it is better that one or two parties well passed air. For this purpose instead of glass it is possible to pull a grid. The bottom is usually covered with soil. It can be shaving for rodents, a sphagnum, the turf. You should not use sand, pebble or sawdust (as in them there are rotting processes). It is important to carry out cleaning daily.
3. It is impossible to support turtles on a floor without terrarium at all. It leads to development of various diseases, injuries and fast death. Besides there is a risk not to notice an animal and is accidental to step on it.
4. Overland turtles are animals thermophilic therefore it is so necessary to provide them constant light and heat. It is possible to establish a lamp directly over a terrarium and to try to hold it included as often as possible.
5. It is necessary to bathe overland turtles every week. Sometimes, bathing, the turtle can greedy begin to drink water therefore it is better to give to drink the pet prior to water procedures clear warm water from a superficial pan. Water in a bath should not be much, and it should not be hotter. You watch that the head of a turtle remained on a surface. That the armor was not softened it it is possible to oil olive. After bathing provide to an animal warmly.
6. The turtle has to eat well. Food has to be balanced: small cut fruit, vegetables and berries (bright color of a forage is preferable), vitamins, mineral fertilizing. Besides it is necessary to add leaves of a dandelion, parsley, a clover, cabbage to food. Leaves can be sprysnut water. It is necessary to add to a turtle food of animal origin (chicken boiled egg, cottage cheese, boiled fish, chicken meat, ground beef). It is also possible to offer earthworms, grasshoppers, snails. If it is correct to support an overland turtle, she will long please you with the good appetite, beauty and health.