Ericaltamez
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So I have a baby sulcata. Not sure how old she is but I have had her for 3 months now. She still fits in the palm of my hand.. i was never planning on getting a second tortoise, but the craziest thing happened to me yesterday, I was sitting in my car in my driveway and I saw movement in the corner of my eye, I look over and a pretty good size tortoise was just walking along the side of the road, no one was around and no houses were around. He is a redfoot tortoise. He tripple the size of my sulcata. He can fit in one hand but hes pretty big around. He isnt shy, so I know he was definitely owned by someone. But the poor thing looks so beat up, his shell has missing sections, the top half of his shell where he normally would tuck his head in is pretty short like a chunk is missing. Hes a mess. But I've been watching him close, he doesnt seem sick, hes eating and hes pretty active, there isnt any worms in his stool or anything. He seems pretty healthy besides the fact that he obviously was mistreated. Hes beautiful and I want to keep him... I read about mixing species, and the only thing that seemed to be an issue on threads was that they require a different diet, but i can easily seperate them for feeding. But besides that.. I want to make sure that my baby sulcata isnt going to be stressed by his presence.. Shes already pretty shy, I cant even walk past her enclosure too much or handle her because she gets too stressed and wont come out of her shell. Honestly it seems like she isnt moving around very much, she is staying in her log and in her shell. I put her infront of her food and she is just sitting there in her shell.. wont come out. Im not sure if she started acting like this before or after i put them together. I think it was a couple days before. Sometimes she goes through days like this where she wont come out very often, but then she goes back to normal. But please give me your opinions. I honestly dont know if i can support two enclosures, i dont even have space for a second one. I have a tank in my garage but its very small, it was even too small for my baby sulcata. Shes in a big plastic container now and shes been much more active ever since I made the switch.. The picture I added is right now, i put my sulcata infront of her food and shes been hiding like that ever since. I barely put my redfoot next to her just for comparison