The Brazilian tortoise is known as the Brazilian red-eared tortoise, alias the showy tortoise and the mahjong tortoise. It is called the red-eared turtle because it has two thick red stripes behind its head. It is an animal that grows in water and belongs to the subphylum Vertebrata, which is transformed from two α animals. The Brazilian tortoise is native to Mexico and other areas in the northern hemisphere, and can be used both as medicine and as an ornamental animal, and it can also be used for food. It has many functions.
It is not only cheap, but it is also very easy to keep. Its color is very bright and beautiful, so the Brazilian red-eared turtle has become a favorite animal for many people to keep. It is because many people like to keep this animal that the Brazilian red-eared turtle has become the most common of the many species of turtles, but it is also because it is so numerous that it has caused an invasion of the species and was once listed as a dangerous species. Smooth without scales.
The Brazilian red-eared tortoise has a large head and fewer stripes on its back than on its belly. It has a raised ridge all along its back, and each piece of its back shell has a particularly nice pattern, some parallel and some showing rings.
The Brazilian red-eared turtle is also very demanding about the living environment, because it lives in water all year round, so it likes a quiet environment, likes warm places, likes to move, and has good adaptability to various environments. It also has a good ability to adapt to food, even if it does not eat for a long time, it can also withstand hunger. Artificial feeding can choose some minced meat or some small shrimp, small dried fish, rice balls to feed it, it is easy to raise.
It can grow up to 30 cm under normal feeding conditions, and its weight can reach one thousand to two kilograms, it grows very fast, you just need to give it no meals regularly to give it enough food, it can grow at a rate of 2-10 cm per year, although it is not picky about food, but its food is very large, you can feed it more food if you want him to grow even larger. Don’t worry about it will hold up, the daily exercise in the water is enough for it to digest.
