The Indian leatherback turtle is a small aquatic turtle species. It has three blade-like protrusions on its carapace. It looks very domineering and sharp, so many people call it the Blade Warrior.

It is precisely because of this feature that many turtle fans love them. So the question is, how should we choose when buying Indian leatherback turtles? Let's have a look!

I. Shape features

If you want to buy a high-quality Indian leatherback turtle, you first need to understand its shape features, which can be found from Look at the following points.

1. Carapace: The carapace of the Indian leatherback turtle is black, in the shape of a person, like the roof of a house, so it is called a roof turtle.

2. Body color: The top of the head of the Indian leatherback turtle is black, the plastron and upper and lower jaws are yellow, and the throat shield, chest shield, abdominal shield, femoral shield, and anal shield are symmetrically black Plaques; a pair of pale red or orange inverted triangular plaques behind the eyes, extending to the cheeks and lower orbits; the neck is black with several yellow longitudinal stripes; the limbs are gray-brown and covered with yellow Small spots (regular).

3. Limbs: Indian leatherback turtles have webbed fingers and toes and longer claws.

Second, health status

After understanding the shape, we need to observe the health status of the Indian leatherback turtle.

1. Look at appetite: Indian leatherback turtles have a mixed diet, mainly eating vegetables, fish, shrimp and mealworms and other foods. You can feed some food when it is not eating and see its response.

2. Look at the level of activity: Healthy Indian leatherback turtles are more active and will crawl. The problem is, it is not recommended to buy.

3. Look at the carapace: You can try to press the carapace of the Indian leatherback turtle with your hands to see if it is softened or deformed. If so, it is not recommended to buy.

4. Look at the skin: Check whether there are obvious wounds, rot skin or scabies on the skin of the Indian leatherback turtle. If there is, it is not recommended to buy.

5. Look at the eyes: Indian leatherback turtles in a healthy state have clean and bright eyes. If you find that Indian leatherback turtles keep wiping their eyes with their claws, and the eyes are obviously red and swollen , then it may suffer from white eye disease, it is not recommended to buy.

6. Look at the snout: Observe whether there is secretions at the snout of the Indian leatherback turtle. If there is, it is not recommended to buy.

7. Look at the cloaca: check whether the cloaca of the Indian leatherback turtle is tightly closed and whether there is residual excrement. If it is found that the cloaca is loose and there are a lot of residues The excrement of the individual, then it may be problematic, and it is not recommended to buy.

The above are the skills you can use when buying Indian leatherback turtles~ I hope you can choose the one you are satisfied with after reading it!