How To Take Care Of A Baby Turtle Egg

To take care of your baby water turtle start feeding it a week after it hatches since it lives off the yolk from its egg before then.

How to take care of a baby turtle egg. Take a small felt tip maker on your turtle hunt so that you may mark and keep track of which side is right side up in your turtle egg. Start by tracing a circle on the side of the styrofoam cooler. Doing so can damage the unborn turtles. Use an incubator with a built in thermometer or put one of your own inside to make sure that the temperature stays constant.

For those species which are native to our local area the simplest method of incubation is to leave the eggs in the ground and protect the site from marauding dogs cats skunks raccoons etc. Open the container once a week to ventilate and look for signs of mold or baby turtles and spray to keep moist as needed. Place the container into an incubator. Do not pick them up once they are in this tank.

Nearly all turtles and tortoises deposit their eggs in holes which the female digs in soft soil or sand. Place filled egg containers with lightly sealed lids into the incubator. The natural moisture of the soil and warmth of the sun will serve to incubate the eggs. Keep the temperature between 77 and 87 degrees fahrenheit for 2 1 2months.

To build your own incubator you will need. Cut the circle out and put the heater through the hole while leaving the plug outside of the box. Your incubation tank should be kept at constant temperature with the right amount of moisture. After you are done tracing the circle you will have to cut it out to put.

Fill the outer aquarium with water maintaining it at the desired temperature with an aquarium heater. Caring for turtle and tortoise eggs. Feed your turtle daily and always in water where it can swallow. For the first few months give your turtle flake and pellet food turtle sticks and a variety of live blackworms crickets and mealworms.

Place an additional thermometer in the sand to monitor egg temperature.