The Pacific Ridgeback eats a wide range of foods, including rice, wheat, peas, small fish, shrimp, insects, snails, and refined pork. Among them, the favorite foods are small fish, refined pork, and corn. In artificial breeding, in order to meet the various nutrients required for the growth of Pacific Ridley turtles and avoid poor growth and anorexia due to a single feed, a variety of feeds should be used, such as fish and shrimp, snails, mussels, etc. in animal feeds. And rice, wheat, corn, etc. in plant feed. To fully digest these feeds, corn, peas, etc. must be crushed and soaked for about 2 hours before feeding. Other large pieces of food must also be chopped before feeding.

In addition, it should be noted that in the Pacific Ridley turtles growing In different periods of time, feeds with different nutrients should be given according to their growth characteristics. The life of the Pacific ridley turtle is closely related to the climate. It starts feeding in early April every year, and the feeding activity reaches its peak from June to August, and the weight gain is the fastest. After the temperature gradually dropped in October, the food intake began to decrease. When the temperature dropped below 10 degrees Celsius, they stopped feeding and entered the hibernation period.