Solution to catch red ear turtles in Ho Guom Lake

A 13-year-old businessman who has been raising red-eared turtles in Hanoi proposes a plan to catch the number of red-eared turtles living in Sword Lake.

The Tien Phong newspaper had an article on how to rescue the turtle in the current problem of red-eared turtles. The article brought the solution of Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Khoi, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of Ecological Conservation of Hanoi City. According to Mr. Khoi, thanks to the method he proposed to apply in Sword Lake, most recently, he captured almost all of the red-eared turtles he kept for the past 13 years.

Red turtles, the threat to the environment.

The plan to catch red-eared turtles is based on the behavior of turtles that he personally studied on the lakes in Dam Bong area of ​​the family.

Accordingly, red-eared turtles often eat all kinds of floating plants and vegetables. With animals, Khoi observed that red-eared turtles almost never eat live and moving animals. But if animals die and rot, it is their favorite.

' When I let go of buffalo skin, they ate it. Drop live fish, they don't eat. Likewise, if the fish dies, it eats right away, 'said Khoi. Because of this, Mr. Khoi intends to study the use of red-eared turtles to help clean up the rotting environment in ponds and lakes.

The method of collecting red-eared turtles at Sword Lake, according to Mr. Khoi, has two parts, the lower part is the design grid so that the red-eared turtles can not come out (of course, not to let the turtle enter). In order to lure red-eared turtles, he set the bait to be rotting food with sufficient amount to not pollute the lake water environment.

The second part of the system is a bamboo raft, where the red ear turtles are exposed to the sun. ' The phenomenon of a red-eared turtle sitting on the back of the Sword Lake Turtle is expressing the hobby of sun exposure of this species, ' said Mr. Khoi.

Just like to feed and seduce sunbathing in the same way, within a month, Mr. Khoi collected almost all of the red-eared turtles that he had raised since 1997 and then destroyed them in front of representatives of the authorities. power.

Mr. Khoi said that some types of algae in Sword Lake may be good food for red-eared turtles, but Sword Lake is not an ideal environment for them to breed.

Like many other turtles, red-eared turtles need sandbanks not only for sun exposure but also for reproduction. If it is possible to prevent the release of releasing the red-eared turtles into Sword Lake, their fertility in the Sword Lake is very low.

Mr. Khoi once observed and found that a set of red-eared turtle turtles consists of two female turtles and two male turtles, averaging 50-60 eggs per year, but the rate of hatching and maturation in nature only 10-20%.

The reason is that eggs cannot hatch in the proper environment. Eggs in the mud will rot. Eggs on land will be attacked by rats. Red-eared turtles are also food of other natural enemies such as catfish and pomfret.