Poor nutrition and environment, or partial eclipse, will cause abnormal back uplift. Normal tortoises have slight bulges on their backs, which are smooth oval in transverse view, rather than exaggerated bulges.
The hunchback phenomenon of turtles is very common when we raise turtles, also known as pyramid disease. Although turtles with long backs usually do not threaten their lives, they are ugly and bad for their health.
The reason of turtle hunchback
Turtle humpback means that the turtle's back is pyramid-shaped, so it is also called pyramid disease. The main reasons are single food and insufficient sunshine. The single food will make too much protein grow too fast and precipitate more in the turtle, and it will also make the supply of calcium and vitamin D3 in the turtle insufficient. In addition, it is impossible to guarantee the sunshine time required by turtles every day, and it is easy to have back augmentation. If you leave the tortoise in the sun for a long time, it will make its back grow out.
Methods of preventing and treating turtle back hypertrophy
1 First of all, we all know that the hump of tortoises is caused by incorrect or single food, too much protein in food and insufficient calcium or vitamin D3. The way to avoid it is to control the content of protein and fat in food. Vegetables with high fiber, high calcium and low moisture are more suitable for turtles to eat, of course, it is best to forage grass.
2, usually give turtles more sunshine, although the owner will use UVB tubes, but UVB can not completely replace the sun, it can help turtles absorb calcium to accelerate the growth of their shells, and the sun contains very different spectra, some spectra may have other uses for turtles, but we don't know, so try to let turtles bask in the sun as much as possible when the weather permits. It is difficult for turtles reared indoors to avoid the phenomenon of back humping, but the phenomenon of back humping is greatly reduced for turtles reared and stocked outdoors.
In fact, although some turtles have humpbacks, they are also a unique beauty. We shouldn't discriminate against these turtles. When we find turtles with humpbacks, we should correctly control the scale of humpbacks and our own attitude towards turtles, which usually does not threaten their lives. Mainly to find ways to control its growth rate. I remember an experienced turtle friend said very well: "for turtles, the less you feed, the better, as long as you don't starve to death;" The more activities, the better, as long as you are not tired. "