Mou's water turtle is an omnivorous animal, more inclined to carnivorous, mainly fish, shrimp, shellfish, insects, snails, earthworms, etc. as daily food , and occasionally ingest aquatic plants or berries. It should be noted that Mou's water turtle is relatively small, and changing the environment is likely to cause it to not eat.

Moo's terrapin in the wild usually eats berries, water weeds, and various insects and animals Feeding on scraps of meat, Murphy's water turtles forage during the day, but are less active during the hottest hours, eating mainly seeds, strawberries, insects, slugs, worms, and freshwater lobsters. And can eat in water and on land at the same time, it is a more terrestrial aquatic turtle.