I have to do a bio project on the animal of my choice. My friend and i want to use turtles. We will feed one red cabbage and one regular cabbage to see if the one eating red cabbage only will turn redder. Do you think this will work? What is the best turtle for my experiment? Where is the best place to get the turtle in central jersey?
2007-03-31 12:03:04 · 8 answers · asked by Music~Is~Life! 2 in Pets ➔ Reptiles
It will not work but it may be harmful to the turtles, the pigment in reptiles scales is not affected by food, cabbage however has almost no nutritional vallue and the turtles will become sick and weak and might die from eating nothing but it.
2007-03-31 12:52:00 · answer #1 · answered by Han Solo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad idea. Pending on which type of turtle you acquire, the diet is different. A common snapping turtle would be fine eating cabbage, but they do not change in pigmentation (they are likely the most common turtles around you). An experiment you can do it with baby turtles. You put one turtle in a tank that has a water heater, and one in a tank without the water heater. Look for size changes, the water heater turtle should grow much faster than the other.
2007-03-31 13:13:03 · answer #2 · answered by Male0138 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most science projects that take animals need you to follow strict rules- including feeding the animal right. Since cabbage is not a healthy food for turtles, this is not a safe project for them.
Besides, a.) they won't turn red from the cabbage, and b.) it would take a long time for it to show even if it did.
2007-04-01 09:08:41 · answer #3 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting idea but you may run into problems.
I can not think of a single turtle species that will voluntarily eat cabbage... no matter what the color and IF you were to find one, chances are that you would get a color change are zip to none.
You might want to try something with mice instead, I am sure that the results would be much faster.
2007-03-31 15:31:26 · answer #4 · answered by hotsnakes2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think this experiment would work, and it may be bad for the turtles depending on their nutritional habits (not a turtle expert sorry).
Some other suggestions:
- Observe the different behavior patterns of different species and compare the similarities/differences (how fast is one compared to the other, what are the differences in eating habits, size, behavior) between the two.
- Observe the differences in colors/patterns, do some research, and come up with possible reasons as to why you feel their colors are specific to their environment.
- Perhaps recording how fast the turtle is in different areas (water, rocks, plants)
Hope this helps!
2007-03-31 12:31:28 · answer #5 · answered by mroof! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
turtles are flowers in vases with water that has die in it. beside malnutrietion the turtle could be hurt by being in captivity for more than a few weeks.
as for the baby turtles with a water heated and one with out that someone mentioed don't do that either. the turtle without one will die from not having enough heat. try mice or something to that effect and use corn vs store bought feed to see anychnges in growth personallity activity level etc.
2007-04-02 10:14:22 · answer #6 · answered by Akkaiden 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i strongly advice against this idea cmpletly as others have said you will not get any results it will make absolutly no difference to the turtles colouring, you will notice that both of them will rapidly deteriorate large amounts of foods such as carrots and cabbage not only have next to no nutritional value they are also known to cause thyroid deficiency meaning that you will have no turtlesto experiment on anyways before long this is not a good idea
2007-04-02 20:52:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
how bout u dont do that...it might be harmful for the turtles
2007-03-31 12:14:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋