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What do Brazilian tortoises eat and how do they prepare food for them?

Jane Margolis
2021-05-20 22:35:20
Young Brazilian tortoises mainly eat animal food, such as small fish, shrimps and snails, because they need a lot of nutrients in their infancy, so they are equivalent to carnivorous turtles. When they are adults, they tend to be vegetarian and often eat some plant foods, such as some aquatic plants and duckweeds. If it is a relatively small turtle, when preparing food, we should pay attention to cutting the food into small pieces before feeding. If it is an adult turtle, then prepare a variety of food to feed it.
What do Brazilian tortoises eat and how do they prepare food for them?

1. What

do Brazilian tortoises eat? Adult Brazilian tortoises are omnivorous animals. At this stage, tortoises grow slowly, so their nutritional needs are not so great. Besides eating some carnivorous foods, they also eat some plant foods. If the Brazilian tortoise is in the period of growth and development, it mainly eats high-protein meat, because the food requirements at this stage are relatively high, and the daily young tortoises eat more small fish and shrimps. The nutritional value of small fish and shrimps is relatively high, which can well meet the nutritional needs of young turtles.

Although there are many kinds of turtle feed on the market now, the ingredients of each kind of feed are different. When feeding them, we should pay attention to the ingredients of the feed and choose a more comprehensive one. As we all know, Brazilian tortoises basically eat everything, so they are relatively easy to raise.

2. How to prepare food

for Brazilian tortoises? Generally speaking, the newly bought tortoises are small and have poor predatory ability, so when preparing food, we should break up or cut the food into small pieces to feed them. You can feed them more often, because the turtles need more food. When they grow up slowly, they should prepare a variety of food to feed them. When grown up, turtles require a rich and comprehensive diet, which needs to be fed with plant feed such as fruits and vegetables.

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