Brazilian red-eared turtles are omnivores and wild turtles in nature, mostly carnivorous. Under artificial feeding conditions, they like to eat animal bait, such as fish, pork, animal offal, mussels, snails and blood worms (chironomid larvae), red filarial worms (water earthworms), Tenebrio molitor (bread worms), fly maggots, etc. . Also eat vegetables, rice, fruits and other plants.

You can feed small red-eared turtles when raising Brazilian red-eared turtles Fish, shrimp, liver, red worms, cockroaches, etc. The Brazilian red-eared turtle has no selective feeding time, and eats both day and night. In the state of starvation, there is snatch behavior, and the phenomenon of eating large and small occurs.