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By Senzeal | 25 October 2019 | 0 Comments

3 Key Points of Keeping Pet Turtles

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Although keeping turtles is easier than keeping some kinds of fishes, you still need to know more about your lovely turtles, so that they can live healthily and keep strong. There are 3 key points that you need to know when keeping them.



 

1. How to purchase a healthy turtle?

Purchasing a healthy turtle is an important first step of keeping them, which will be much easier in future keeping. Check the type of pet turtle online before purchase, and select your favorite pet turtle according to their habit and shape. When you go to the store to buy turtles, remember to compare the pictures to avoid the possibility of being deceived by the seller. Gently stretch the tortoise's limbs by hand, and if it retracts or struggles vigorously, it indicates that it is a healthy turtle. Then look at the turtle's anus. If there are feces near the anus, it may indicate a problem with the digestive tract. In addition, it is necessary to carefully observe whether it is lively, whether the pace is normal, and whether the response is sensitive. After you have purchased a healthy turtle, we suggest you keep this pet turtle tank


 

2. How to feed them properly?

Turtles need a lot of calcium to maintain the development of their turtle shells, so we have to feed the turtle with foods that contain a lot of calcium. For example, they can be fed with some nutrient-rich turtle-specific feed, and occasionally we can feed them some fresh food such as boneless fish meat and small shrimps. If you only feed them with only fish and meat, it will cause malnutrition. They need to be added with water-soluble nutrients, and they can also be fed with some vegetable leaves, carrots for providing essential vitamins.


 

3.Other notes of keeping

If you don't often give your turtle a sunbathe, it can't synthesize calcium of its shell. For young turtles, the adverse consequence of this is even more serious. The turtle shell of a young turtle will become soft. Therefore, before going out in the morning, we can put the turtles outside, and put it back indoors in the evening when we get back home. Let it properly enjoy the sunbathe and enhance the body. However, do not leave them outdoors when the summer is very hot and dry. In the prevention of disease, care should be taken to prevent bacteria from entering the body from the wound. A medicated bath can be used for treatment, and an appropriate amount of antibiotics is dripped on its body. However, some turtles might be allergic to antibiotics, so that special attention should be paid when using antibiotics.


 
From above we can know that there are key points that we need to pay attention to when keeping turtles. To provide a healthy and clean environment to your turtle, you need to use a good quality turtle tank filter. This
Turtle Tank Filter has double filtering: enhanced activated carbon and filter plate to improve water quality. Moreover, it has 2 fixing methods: suction cups fixing and hook fixing for you to choose. You can create a special aquascaping in this special Acrylic Turtle Tank.



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