In the wild most of their adult diet are aquatic plants.
Malayan box turtle food.
The wood turtle glyptemys insculpta is a species of turtle endemic to north america.
The malayan box turtle is technically an omnivore although adults eat more vegetation than meat.
It is in the genus glyptemys a genus which contains only one other species of turtle.
At riverview park and zoo we feed the malayan box turtle fruits like melons strawberries kiwi peach grapes mango kale lettuce and yam as well as super worms chopped smelt and commercial turtle pellets.
Food like lettuce carrots or apples should be peppered with calcium powder with vitamin d3 as the supplement.
Feeding can be done once in two days or lightly daily.
To keep a box turtle healthy it is important to provide it with suitable box turtle food.
Food at the zoo.
The malayan box turtle is omnivorous meaning it can eat meat fruits and vegetables from lettuce to live fishes.
They can be fed a commercial turtle pellet supplemented with duckweed mealworms crickets live feeder fish fruit dandelions or mushrooms.
However the name malayan box turtle is commonly used for the entire amboina box turtle species.
We will share information about his origin scientific name diet his habitat home age pond fish tank setup and many many more.
The malayan box turtle cuora amboinensis commonly referred to as the ambo is at this time sept 2002 the most common hard shelled chelonian species found in the food medicinal markets of southern china.
These turtles are aquatic and spend almost all their lives in water.
It was only a few years ago that this distinction applied to the reeve s turtle chinemys.
Cuora amboinensis kamaroma malayan box turtle or domed malayan box turtle rummler fritz 1991 mainland indochina south and central vietnam southern laos and cambodia thailand phang nga province etc singapore and mainland malaysia and borneo.
Whereas the malayan box turtle eats more plant matter.
Commercial turtle pellets are also well accepted.
The malayan box turtle also known as the south east asian box turtle or the domed malayan box turtle is a subspecies of the amboina box turtle.
The bog turtle glyptemys muhlenbergii the wood turtle reaches a straight carapace length of 14 to 20 centimeters 5 5 to 7 9 in its defining characteristic being the pyramidal shape of the scutes on its upper shell.
Do research on the species you own to find out what kind of balance you should have.
Some species such as the chinese three striped box turtle focuses much heavier on animal matter.
