CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What is the best thing to feed the golden coin turtle?

Golden coin turtles are omnivorous turtles. In nature, they mainly prey on aquatic animals such as snails, fish, shrimps, tadpoles, etc. They also eat young mice, small fish, shrimps, snails, young frogs, beetles, earthworms, snails and fly maggots. Sometimes they also eat pumpkins, bananas, and tender stems and leaves of plants, as well as seeds. Under artificial breeding conditions, they like to eat animal viscera, earthworms, lean meat, small fish and mixed feed.

Feed for golden coin turtle

The feed for raising golden coin turtles is divided into two categories: animal feed and plant feed. Animal feed includes lean pork, animal offal, fish, shrimp, and oysters, while plant feed includes bananas (peeled) and apples. Animal feed is the main feed, and the two types of feed are used alternately. The number of times plant feed is fed is about 1/7 of the number of times animal feed is fed. From the observation of the eating habits of golden coin turtles, it can be seen that golden coin turtles like lean pork in animal feed and banana in plant feed the most.

Feeding of Golden Turtle

1. Newly hatched baby turtles: Newly hatched baby turtles still have a yolk sac. Within 2 to 3 days, the nutrition of the baby turtles is provided by the yolk sac, so there is no need to feed the baby turtles. After 2-3 days, feed them with small fish, shrimps, earthworms, a little rice and vegetables.

2. For young and adult turtles: the feed mainly includes fish, shrimp, snails, clam meat, earthworms, pumpkin, vegetable leaves and commercial feed. The feeding time depends on the season, water temperature and the growth of the turtle. Generally, the daily feeding amount should be about 5% of its own body weight. Feed at regular times, quantitatively and with regular quality to ensure that the turtle eats well and is full. During the hibernation period, the golden coin turtle does not eat and does not need to be fed.

The food that golden coin turtles eat includes fish, shrimp, snails, clam meat, earthworms, as well as pumpkin, vegetable leaves and commercial feed.

Feeding is mainly animal feed, and the two types of feed are used interchangeably. The number of times plant feed is fed is about 1/7 of the number of times animal feed is fed. Feed should be chopped when feeding. The quality, quantity, time and location of feeding should be determined. Contaminated bait should be discarded rather than fed.

Feeding time varies according to the season. In summer, feed at 10-11 am every day, and in autumn, feed at 3-4 pm. It should be adjusted at any time according to the actual eating situation, and the amount of each feeding should be eaten within 1 hour after feeding.

Additional information:

Disease prevention and control operations:

Every 2 weeks, use 10mg/L bleach solution or 2% salt water to soak or shower the turtle body for 5 to 10 minutes to prevent and treat common bacterial diseases; soak or shower the turtle body in concentrated kelp for 5 to 10 minutes to prevent and treat goiter in golden coin turtles.

When the appetite of the golden coin turtle decreases and the movement is slow, soaking the turtle body in concentrated kelp extract for 10 minutes can improve the appetite of the golden coin turtle. Feed it with oxytetracycline bait once a week, that is, mix oxytetracycline powder into mashed lean pork, and the dosage is calculated based on 1/5 tablet of oxytetracycline for each 100-gram young turtle.

Place the golden coin turtle in an outdoor dry sand pool (be careful to prevent escape) to bask its back once a week. It is best to bask in sufficient sunlight between 9 and 10 a.m. in the morning. Each basking lasts for 20 to 30 minutes in summer and autumn, and 30 to 60 minutes in winter and spring.

Sunbathing the turtle's back not only kills the fungus, but also creates conditions for the vitamin D on the turtle's body surface to be converted into vitamin D, thereby enhancing the turtle's disease resistance.

Feed and feeding Zheng Jing

Nutritional conditions are one of the factors that have a great impact on the artificial breeding of golden coin turtles. Golden coin turtles have a wide range of diets. When they are artificially raised, they should be mainly fed with animal feeds such as small fish, shrimp, minced meat, snail meat, earthworms, cooked and chopped animal viscera, and supplemented with plant feeds such as rice and vegetables. In addition, a variety of vitamins, trace elements and calcium can be appropriately added to the feed to ensure that the nutrients in the feed are comprehensive and avoid poor growth and development of golden coin turtles or anorexia.

The easiest way is to feed the turtle with tortoise food. Just feed it directly. However, it may be too nutritious to feed it for a long time. When necessary, feed it meat, fish, shrimp, animal organs, etc. It is also okay to give it some fruits such as grapes and apples occasionally.

For example, fish, shrimp, tadpoles, shellfish, earthworms, etc.; the stems, leaves and seeds of some aquatic plants can also be used as food for golden coin turtles.