How big can the yellow-edged box turtle grow?

How long can the yellow-edged turtle grow? Under normal circumstances, the adult of the yellow-edged turtle can grow to about 20 cm, with an average of about 10 cm. Generally speaking, it is medium and small in size.

Cuora flavomarginata is an animal belonging to the tortoise family. The head is smooth and scaleless, the eardrum is round and clear, the back of the head is light olive, flat before kissing, the upper beak has obvious hooks, and the lower jaw is orange. There is a wide gold stripe behind each eye. The two stripes meet at the back of the head to form a U-shaped arc pattern, and the neck after the pattern is light orange. The carapace is dark red or brownish red, high and bulging, with a yellowish ridge in the middle.

Eating habits

Yellow-edged turtle is an omnivorous turtle which mainly eats meat. In the wild, it feeds on insects, worms and mollusks, such as longicorn beetles, gold leaf worms, centipedes, geckos and snails. When animal food is scarce, it also eats cereals, fruits and vegetables. In the hunger tolerance test, some individuals can even eat rotten plant leaves.

In artificial breeding, they like to eat earthworms, Tenebrio molitor, fly maggots and animal meat, and also like to eat granular eel feed and granular eel bait, but they don't like to eat dead fish and shrimps with skins, and they also prey on small live fish in shallow water. ?

The suitable feeding temperature of the yellow-edged turtle is 20 ~ 33℃, but the feeding intensity is the highest at 28 ~ 30℃. Food intake is closely related to temperature. When the temperature is lower than 26℃, the food intake is obviously reduced. According to domestication observation, when the ambient temperature is 20 ~ 24℃, the food intake is less than 1% of the body weight, and the feeding frequency is less, usually once every 2 ~ 3 days.