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How to raise soft-shelled turtles?

Artificial breeding

1. Placement and cleaning of the feeding table The feeding table is best placed on the edge of the pond and at an angle of 30-45 degrees to the water surface, which is conducive to the turtles finding food and avoiding interference. Before each feeding, use a mild disinfectant and a sterilized brush to clean the feeding table and its surroundings, and disinfect once every 3 days. 2. Preparation and feeding of bait The amount of fresh feed added is generally 10%-40%. When using fresh feed, it must be disinfected, cleaned, and prepared immediately to avoid corruption and deterioration. Feeding should be done in the form of feeding, and the bait should be 2-30% above the water surface.

3 cm is enough. Soft-shelled turtles are timid, so try to minimize the disturbance to them when feeding. The feeding amount is based on the standard that they can be eaten in 1-1.5 hours, and the remaining bait should be collected in time for other uses. In the hot season, the feeding time should be before sunrise and at sunset. 3. Water quality regulation The aquaculture water body should be regularly changed and discharged, and the amount of water changed each time should not exceed 1/3. If conditions permit, the effect of micro-flow aquaculture will be better. During the aquaculture process, regularly use chlorine dioxide preparations 0.5-1ppm, bleaching powder 2-3ppm, strong chlorine 1-2ppm, and quicklime 15-40ppm to spray and disinfect the entire pond. After 2-3 days of application, spray the entire pond with photosynthetic bacteria preparations of about 5ppm, which can play a role in regulating water. 1-2 times a month is enough. 4. Plant green on the water surface and build a sunbathing platform. In the pond, a 1.5-meter long and wide frame is built about 1 meter away from the feeding platform to plant water hyacinth. Water hyacinth has a well-developed root system, which can absorb harmful substances in the water and play a role in regulating water. It is also beneficial for turtles to hide, bask in the sun, and enjoy the cool. For ponds with less slopes beside the pond, a basking platform should be built in the pond. 5. Regularly patrol the pond and remove dead turtles in time. The purpose of patrolling the pond is to timely understand the feeding, growth activities, diseases, pond water quality, facilities, etc. of the turtles. Dead turtles in the pond should be removed in time and buried or incinerated, and sick turtles should also be isolated and treated in time.

Turtle breeding ground

Selecting and building a turtle farm is the first step in artificial breeding and raising turtles, and it is also a key step in laying a good foundation. The scale of a turtle farm can be large or small, depending on the funds of the turtle farmer. It can be a single pond or a turtle farm consisting of dozens of ponds; it can be open-air, or covered with a plastic shed or a greenhouse. Regardless of the size of the site, the following principles should be followed when choosing:

1. Turtle ponds should be built in sunny and quiet places to avoid being frightened, which is conducive to the growth of turtles. 2. The soil of turtle ponds should be clay or loam, which is conducive to water retention. If sandy soil that is easy to leak is used, effective anti-seepage measures must be taken. 3. The water source must be of good quality and clean, and not polluted by industrial and agricultural pesticide wastewater. Water from rivers, lakes and reservoirs is best. Well water should be raised in a sunbathing pond. If polluted water is used to raise turtles, all previous efforts will be wasted. 4. Turtle farms should be close to feed sources, such as meat and fish processing plants or places with rich aquatic animal resources (snails, clams, etc.). The waste such as internal waste and fresh natural bait can be used to raise turtles to reduce costs. When designing turtle ponds, they should be designed according to the different breeding objects (parent turtles, juvenile turtles, young turtles, and adult turtles). (1) Parent turtle ponds Parent turtle ponds should be built in the most secluded place. The general area is about 1 mu, and the water depth is about 1.5 meters. A spawning ground is set up on the bank of the pond on the sunny side and covered with sand. It is best to have trees or tall crops around the spawning ground to provide shade. Turtles are reptiles, so there should be a fence around the pond, i.e., an escape-proof wall. The general requirement for building an escape-proof wall for turtle ponds is that it is 50 to 80 cm higher than the bank. If it also has an anti-theft function, it should be more than 2 meters high. The top of the wall should extend 15 to 25 cm above the water surface. There should be an open space on the bank between the fence and the water surface to facilitate the movement and reproduction of turtles. (2) Juvenile turtle ponds require heat preservation, so it is best to build a juvenile turtle pond indoors. Generally, a cement pool with an area of ​​25 to 30 square meters, a water depth of 0.5 meters, and a bottom covered with 5 to 10 cm of powdered sand is preferred. The hatching ring of domestic fish can also be used, with the bottom covered with powdered sand. The water inlet pipe and fry hole of the ring can be used as inlet and outlet pipes. (3) The area of ​​the young turtle pond is about 150 square meters, the water depth is 0.8 meters, and the bottom is covered with powder sand. The spawning pond of domestic fish can also be used for laying sand, and a 30-centimeter-high escape-proof wall should be built around the pond, and escape-proof facilities should be built at the inlet and outlet.

(4) The area of ​​the turtle pond is generally 1 to 2 mu, with a water depth of about 1.5 to 2 meters. Ordinary fish ponds can be used with escape-proof walls. Larger turtle ponds need to have a small island in the middle of the pond for turtles to bask in the sun and move around. (5) Hatching and wintering equipment Small-scale turtle farming generally uses basins as hatching basins for turtle eggs, and the wintering pond can be replaced by a hatching ring for domestic fish, or the turtles can be moved to small containers such as plastic buckets and basins, with sand on the bottom and placed indoors for wintering. Large-scale turtle farms can build greenhouses with temperature control equipment. In places with hot springs, hot springs can be used to raise turtles, keeping the water temperature at 27 to 30 degrees Celsius all year round. After 18 months of breeding, commercial turtles weighing 1.5 kilograms can be cultivated.

Soft-shelled turtles are easy to raise. It is best to keep them in water during the day. The water can be deeper. They are good swimmers, but they need a platform to rest and bask in the sun. Their diet is much more diverse than that of turtles. They eat almost everything, but it is best to feed them small fish, shrimps, mealworms, etc., and you can also add some fruits and vegetables. You can feed them directly into the water. This guy can eat and poop, and will soon make the water very dirty. You must pay attention to changing the water frequently to ensure the water quality, otherwise they will get sick. More sun exposure is beneficial to the growth of soft-shelled turtles, but don't expose them to excessive sunlight. Put them in the sand at night. The sand can be thicker. They will swing their limbs and try their best to drill in. It looks very funny. Then don't worry about it. Wait until the next day, put them in the sun, and they will peek out after a while. They look very cute when basking in the sun!

But please note that the feeding tools must be deep, as they are masters of jailbreaking and will escape if you are not careful.

Can turtles be raised anywhere?

Not all places can raise soft-shelled turtles.

Soft-shell turtles mainly live in lakes, ponds, reservoirs, bays and slow-flowing rivers.

The turtle is a cold-blooded animal, amphibious, and breathes with lungs, so there should be enough land beach around or in the center of the turtle pond for it to carry out land activities. The living habits of the turtle can be summarized as "three likes and three fears", that is, it likes quietness and fears being startled, likes the sun and fears the wind, and likes cleanliness and fears dirt.

Soft-shelled turtles react sensitively to the sounds of their surroundings. As long as there is a slight movement around them, they will quickly dive into the mud at the bottom of the water, so the environment of the turtle farm or turtle pond must be kept quiet. If soft-shelled turtles are often frightened, it will be very detrimental to their growth and reproduction.

Additional information:

The turtle is a cold-blooded animal, very sensitive to changes in ambient temperature. When the outside temperature drops below 15°C, the turtle stops eating and hibernates in the mud at the bottom of the water (usually from October to April of the following year), which can last up to half a year.

Therefore, turtles raised under natural conditions grow slowly, generally only growing about 100 grams a year. In order to speed up the growth of turtles, heating measures are often used in artificial breeding to break the hibernation habits of turtles and speed up their growth.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Turtle

No, the soft-shell turtle is also known as the tortoise. Selecting and building a turtle breeding site is the first step in the artificial breeding and farming of turtles, and it is also a key step in laying a solid foundation.

The scale of the turtle breeding site can be large or small, depending on the funds of the turtle breeder. It can be a single pond or a turtle breeding site consisting of dozens of ponds; it can be open-air or covered with a plastic shed or a greenhouse. The following principles should be followed when choosing:

The turtle pond should be built in a sunny and quiet place to avoid being frightened, which is conducive to the growth of turtles. The soil of the turtle pond should be clay or loam, which is conducive to water retention. If sandy soil that is easy to leak is used, effective anti-seepage measures must be taken.

The water source must be of good quality and clean, without being polluted by industrial and agricultural pesticide wastewater. Water from rivers, lakes and reservoirs is the best. Well water should be heated by drying ponds. If polluted water is used to raise turtles, all previous efforts will be wasted.

Additional information:

Feeding

The feeding table is best placed on the edge of the pond and at an angle of 30 to 45 degrees to the water surface, which is conducive to the turtle finding food and avoiding interference. Before each feeding, use a mild disinfectant and a sterilized brush to clean the feeding table and its surroundings, and disinfect once every 3 days.

When making and placing bait, fresh bait must be disinfected, cleaned, and prepared before use to prevent it from spoiling. Feeding should be done by feeding, and the bait should be 2 to 3 cm away from the water surface.

The turtle is timid, so try to minimize the disturbance when feeding it. The standard is that the feed should be eaten in 1 to 1.5 hours, and the remaining bait should be collected in time for other uses. In the hot season, the best time to feed is before sunrise and start feeding at sunset.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Turtle

1. Ensure the water quality. The quality of water directly affects the breeding effect of soft-shelled turtles. If the pond water is too rich or even smelly, it is not only bad for the growth of soft-shelled turtles, but also affects the taste of their meat. Generally, clean river water is added to the pond once every week or so, and the total amount accounts for about a quarter of the original pond. Clean the remaining food on the table regularly. In addition, water hyacinths are planted in the pond, accounting for about half of the total pond. This can not only purify the water quality, but also provide a hidden and quiet place for soft-shelled turtles, and try to meet their natural living habits.

2. Do a good job of disease prevention. For ponds with convenient drainage and good escape prevention facilities, stock 2-3 turtle fry of basically the same size (50-100 grams) per square meter. Sprinkle the entire pond with 30-50 grams of quicklime per cubic meter of water every 15 days or so. Unless there are very special circumstances, it is forbidden to step on or catch turtles in the pond. At the same time, use bamboo rafts to build several drying platforms for the turtles to bask in the sun.

Although this method of raising turtles takes a long time, it takes about three years from seedlings to 500 grams of commercial turtles, including two hibernation periods, but its economic benefits are good. The cost of feed and seedlings per kilogram does not exceed 60 yuan, and the rest is income. This method is suitable for family breeding in small water bodies. For the current stage of planting industry, it is a good project and worth promoting.

Because the turtle is carnivorous, I feed it some small fish and shrimp, which I cut with scissors and then feed it. Other small insects are also fine, such as mealworms bought at the flower and bird market. However, if you only have one, you don't have to buy it, because the small turtle has a small appetite. It would be a waste if you buy too much, and you still have to feed it mealworms. In addition, rice bugs and other things are also fine. As long as it eats, you can feed it

But it is winter now, and turtles are cold-blooded animals. The temperature is so low that they have almost no ability to move and cannot eat. So you should get a small basin, put a little water in it, preferably rice water, and then put it in a dark place to let it spend the winter. As long as it survives this winter, in the spring of next year, the weather will gradually warm up. Around mid-April, it will begin to recover its vitality. At this time, you can feed it a lot of food. As long as it eats a lot, it will grow quickly. It's very interesting:)

Not on cement floor

Yes, as long as the temperature and environment are suitable.