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What kind of food does the snapping turtle feed and how to feed it?

Gustavo 'Gus' Fring
2021-07-21 08:59:51
Snapping turtles can be fed with special turtle food for snapping turtles. Most of the home-raised snapping turtles are fed with turtle food and live bait. In addition to the special turtle food on the market, it can also feed some shrimp meat, loach, snail meat and other foods. If you are feeding young turtles, all the food should be chopped up before feeding, so that they can digest better. If you are feeding adult turtles, just scatter the turtle food on the surface of the water, and they can eat it by themselves. Frozen live bait must be thawed before it can be fed.
What kind of food does the snapping turtle feed and how to feed it?

1. what kind of turtle food

does the crocodile turtle feed? The crocodile turtle can feed the special turtle food on the market. They mainly eat meat food, so when choosing turtle food, you can choose turtle food with more meat ingredients. People who have raised snapping turtles should know that they can't eat salt or too cold food, so they should pay attention to these two points when choosing turtle food.

Whether it is artificial breeding or family breeding, besides turtle food, it is better to feed them with natural food, which will not only enrich the nutrition, but also avoid the situation that they feel greasy because of eating turtle food for a long time. Using natural food can improve their taste very well. The method of

feeding

snapping turtles is similar to other turtles. For adult turtles, most of them put food in the water and let them eat through the force of water. But don't feed too much at a time, otherwise the unfinished food will easily lead to water pollution, which will also increase their risk of disease.

For young snapping turtles, because the individual is relatively small, the digestive system is not as perfect as that of adult turtles, so when feeding, they should be chopped up and fed, such as loach, which should be cut into small pieces to feed, so as to reduce their digestive burden. If it is to feed shrimp, whether adult or young turtles, it is best to remove the head of the shrimp before feeding.

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