The snapper is an omnivore with animal bait as its main food, preferring to eat fish, shrimp, shellfish, insects and animal offal and carcasses. When the animal material lacks, also need to eat grass, melons and grains and other plant erbium, gluttony, erbium is not enough, often eat each other.

The main food is small fish, shrimp, tadpoles, snails, mussels, aquatic insects.

The snapper is both gluttonous and hunger-resistant, and won't die even if it doesn't eat for a long time after a meal. Of course, this is to rely on its own accumulated nutrients to maintain life activities, in artificial culture must be supplied with sufficient food to accelerate its growth. Snappers eat earthworms, animal offal, etc., and also eat vegetables, grass, fruits and melons. When there is not enough food, the same kind of people can eat each other, can also eat animal carcasses.

Generally, the number of domesticated snappers will not be too much, so do not need to buy specialized snapper feed, usually buy some small fish and shrimp when buying food, there are some pork on it, but also can eat some vegetable leaves and so on.

Generally feed about two times a day, normally that is once in the morning and once in the evening, according to the size of the turtle to decide the amount of feeding. If you can't decide the amount, you can test it a few times to finish it. Slowly you will master the amount of food it eats.

The snapper does not need to be fed in winter. When the temperature is below 15℃, the snapper basically goes into hibernation and rarely moves or eats. Simply place it in a fish tank with a small amount of water.

The domesticated snapper needs to ensure that the water quality of breeding snappers, the water should be changed when the water quality becomes bad, and the snappers don't have finished food need to be cleaned up in time. Purchased back to the small snapper with a good cleanup and cleaning. Because of the snappers' aggressive nature, the snappers should not be mixed together.