Like all children, even the hatchlings are very delicate and exposed. Special care is needed, why it is advisable to separate them from adult specimens and to ensure a constant high temperature in children. After the first two to three days, you can 'begin to offer solid food, such as strips of vegetables and wild herbs and / or small insects. For turtles the problem of land is less: just make up a terrarium, smaller but with similar characteristics as the main one, where you can leave small for a few days.
For water turtles ideal is to get a special container, rather wide, which pay a few millimeters of warm water (at the same temperature incubator) in which the remaining small can breathe underwater. The water should be changed frequently complemented by a UV lamp and a heating to about 25 cm away from the animals.
When the yolk sac is completely resorbed during hatching, it is advisable to keep the turtles in a tank apart from the smooth bottom and moistened to prevent abrasions and infection.
If the weather allows, after the first day, the turtles may be kept outside, where, however, will remain separate from adults at least for a few months. The growth of children is rather rapid in the early years, although it has more in turtles than in the ground. However, never stops: why turtles more 'old are also more' big.
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