| If you and your family have decided that you would | | | | will need to be on. The first factor that you need to |
| like to keep an exotic pet, such as a turtle, there are | | | | realize is that your turtle is an omnivore which means |
| many things that you need to be aware of when | | | | that they will eat both meat and vegetables. On the |
| caring for a pet such as this. Sometimes they might | | | | other hand, you need to make sure that your turtle |
| have special diet requirements that you need to | | | | has a well balanced diet in order for the turtle to stay |
| follow strictly in order for the pet to be healthy and | | | | happy and healthy while it is growing and maturing. |
| happy. | | | | Feeding your turtle fresh fruits and vegetables as |
| Turtles can be interesting pets for anyone to take | | | | well as fish is always a safe diet when it comes to |
| care of and are often picked as pets for the wrong | | | | the health of your pet. Fish is often a good meat to |
| reasons. One of the main things that you will need to | | | | provide for your turtle because it provides a lot of |
| do when you are caring for a turtle is to make sure | | | | nutrients that your turtle will need to stay healthy. |
| that the turtle has the correct environment to live in. | | | | There are also some different types of sticks that |
| Turtles need to have just the right temperatures in | | | | you can buy for your turtle that already contain the |
| order to survive in whatever environment that you | | | | correct amounts of nutrients and food that your |
| have created for them. You need to make sure that | | | | turtle will need to survive. Your turtle needs exercise |
| your turtle has enough room to move around as well | | | | so giving your turtle a live fish in the water will help it |
| as a basking light so they can warm up if they | | | | to stay active and hunting is the best way to |
| choose to. If you choose to use a refrigerator to | | | | exercise for a growing turtle. Remember that if your |
| recreate their habitat, be aware that any drastic | | | | turtle begins to look a cloudy washed out color, you |
| increases in temperature can cause the turtle to go | | | | need to take it to the vet immediately because it |
| into shock and can be fatal to the turtle. | | | | could be sick with some type of disease. |
| Another factor to consider is the diet that the turtle | | | | |