Raise Star Tortoises

Raise Star Tortoises
The young tortoise need a high temperature and ultraviolet ray more than adult tortoise. Young tortoise has weak physical strength in comparison to the adult tortoise. It is easy to destroy young tortoise physical condition and their mortality rate is high.


When you raise a tortoise from young , it accustomed to the person well and like a dog when you call its name near it, the tortoise will accustome to the name.


But different from the dog and the cat, when tortoise's body is touched ,it feels stress. Therefore touch the body of the tortoise is not good. So if you are a person who cannot be satisfied by only looking at the tortoise, should not keep a tortoise as a pet.


Each tortoise will have different character and favorite foods eventhough they are the same type. The color of the shell, shape of the shell, pattern of the shell of same type of tortoise will be different depending upon the influence of heredity and the environmental influence.


The tortoise drinks the water in the tank. If the water is dirty and tortoise do not drink it, the tortoise become dehydration. Tortoise also drink water when being soaking for morning warm bath. When changing the water, pay attention to water temperature. It is not recommended to give tortoise a warm bath at night time because this is sleeping time and wake the tortoise which is sleeping is not good.


Tank is actually not suitable for tortoise as tortoise like to grazzing around but if you do not have suitable place for raising tortoise a large tank is better. Mix 2 tortoise or more in a small tank , even though they are the same type will make the tortoise feel stress and fight, and there are times when even in a gentle kind will became atrocius. When one of a tortoise condition is bad, if you mixed the tortoises together in a tank, there is a possibility of the other is being infected, so it is better to keep each tortoise separately.


It is better to give tortoise a fresh vegetable rather than formula foods.
When 2 tortoises live together, you need to ensure a weak tortoise is eating its food securely, by moving the strong tortoise to the other place. After the weak turtle have eaten its food, put back the strong tortoise to the tank for eating.

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