Comparatively speaking, red-eared tortoises prefer to eat some animal feed. During the hatchling period, some red-eared tortoises are even purely carnivorous. Yellow-bellied red-eared turtles are fierce and sometimes bite, so be careful when feeding them, and don't easily feed them directly with your hands.

The yellow-bellied red-eared turtle is an omnivorous turtle. It likes to eat animal bait, such as fish, pork, animal offal, mussels, snails and blood worms (chironomid larvae), red worms (water earthworms), mealworms (mealworms), snails and mollusks, insects, flies Maggots, etc., as well as various crude fiber foods. In addition, the yellow-bellied red-eared turtle loves to eat shrimp.

The yellow-bellied red-eared turtle is good for all fat, hard dry Meat, cooked meat and all kinds of crude fiber foods are not interested, or even hate such foods and refuse to eat them. In addition, the food provided should not have thorns and bones to avoid injury to the turtle. It is best to feed fresh raw meat. The cooked meat will become hard. Turtles do not like to eat hard things. inflammation.

The location of the bait should be fixed, so that it is easy to observe the feeding situation and activity of the turtle. When the feed is fed, healthy turtles can climb to the food table to forage. Those turtles that are unresponsive or do not eat should be observed, and severe cases should be kept separately. The feed must be fresh and free of peculiar smell. The leftovers should be washed first, and then the excess tendons and skins should be removed to avoid indigestion.