Turtles Pet

Many people who love these animals are cute and unique. Turtles are small animals that live in most parts of the world, both temperate and tropical freshwater and seawater. Turtles have a wide range of types, one of which is water turtles that made as many pets as aquatic animals because this water animal can live on land. At the back there is a hard shell and beautifully colored.

In addition to note in the pet turtle are cages and equipment. Cage materials are hard to hurt the feet and lower body. Meanwhile, the enclosure must be equipped with a spacious pool area of the cage and the third two-thirds of the land that needs to be equipped with rocks and greenery as hiding places. Then the pond is completed timber can float for small turtles can rest on it or hide in the side. Water level in the pond or aquarium is set a minimum size of the turtle long to be maintained.

Water must be free of toxic materials. Water left in a pond or an aquarium for 48 hours before the tortoise put into it. As a pet, a tortoise can suffer from malnutrition because the keepers are generally paying less attention to the type and amount of food needed. Many who thought the turtles eat only plants, but he was eating meat. Adult turtles eat meat only, while the young turtles eat plants and meat. Giving the feed is depending on big and the age of the turtle. Usually the young turtles are fed once every day, while adult turtles (old) enough to be fed 2-3 times a week. Dog or cat's food especially made or flavored dried fish very well given because a complete nutritional substances. Moreover, the food is odorless, clean, durable stored, as well as feces and urine produced little. To be nutritionally balanced, turtles can be given additional food in the form of tablets of minerals and vitamins, especially calcium, phosphorus, and vitamin D.