Leopard tortoises are complete vegetarians and their staple diet is plant-based foods such as vegetables, high-fiber plants, and pastures. It is recommended to give low-protein, high-fiber foods, and avoid daily fruits and vegetables that provide more water.

Don't give meat foodleopard Tortoiseseat, as this necessarily leads to overgrowth, rugged bone growth, dangerous levels of blood lipids, stones and kidney disease. If you feed leopard tortoises with soy foods (high protein, low phosphorus/calcium ratio), there will also be serious growth problems. Also, if fed normally, their shells will not have bulges.