Responsiveness and kindness are very important qualities of any person. To form them in children will help care for a pet. Turtle can be considered an ideal animal for a city apartment, if the family has a small child. To maintain a reptile, regardless of the selected species, you must purchase a terrarium for turtles.
Most often, representatives of the family of eared ears are bought for the house. For most of the day they are in the water, but they get out to warm themselves on land. Therefore, for a full life, they need a special
terrarium for red-eared turtles. One part of it will serve as a pool for water procedures, and the other - land.
In this case, the dry area should be quite large and occupy a quarter of the entire area, and not be limited to a plastic island, which is attached to the wall
terrarium. In the dry part, the turtle not only rests and warms up, but there it is taught to eat. With such feeding, food does not fall into the water and does not provoke the formation of an unpleasant odor.
To maintain the purity of the water, the terrarium for turtles can be equipped with a filter. In its absence, water will have to be changed up to two times a week. The presence of a filter does not save you from replacing water, but you will have to do this much less often (once a month), combining this procedure with cleaning the entire terrarium.
If the room is cool, then you need to buy a heater and maintain the temperature at 25–27 degrees. At this temperature and additional artificial lighting, the red-eared turtle will remain active even in winter and will not hibernate.
The terrarium for turtles of this species should be large enough (105-120 liters), as the babies grow quite quickly, and with proper care they can reach a length of up to 30 centimeters and a weight of up to 2.5 kilograms.
Often, novice owners who have taken a land tortoise into the house make a mistake, letting them into “free swimming”. She is allowed to roam freely around the apartment, choose a place to sleep and eat. You still have to buy a terrarium for land turtles , because the animal can get injured, catch a cold and get sick, crawling on the cold floor.
Your pet’s home should have a shelter where she could hide in order to feel safe. For small individuals, you can use halves of coconut shells. Land tortoise cannot be left without drinking water. In addition, guests from the humid tropics love to just lie in the water. Therefore, the terrarium for turtles should be equipped with a drinking bowl and a bath, which must be buried in the ground. The bathhouse must be equipped with a convenient gangway for entering and leaving the water. The water level should not be more than half the height of the animal. It is better to fill the bottom by 6-10 centimeters with small pebbles or pebbles without sharp edges, so that, satisfying your instinct for the digger, the turtle is not injured.
If you follow the simple rules of care, then long-lived turtles are able to give joy to their owners for more than a dozen years.