Hamilton's tortoise is an omnivorous and partial animal tortoise. It eats slowly. It can be fed fish, shrimp, snail meat, clams, tadpoles, earthworms, livestock and poultry offal, rice, noodles, fruits, etc. Vegetables and compound feed, etc.

Hamilton's turtle is aquatic Turtles live in creeks, rivers, swamps and other places, with strong adaptability, lively temperament, and are not afraid of people, but have higher environmental temperature requirements. Generally, when the temperature is above 18 ℃, they can eat normally, but when the temperature is below 15 ℃, they will stop eating and move less, and enter hibernation with the decrease of temperature. The optimum temperature for growth is 22-30°C.