Hello! So my partner and I received our beloved red-foot from his dad (who got him from a friend who breeds Indian-star who got it from some random person who knew he liked tortoises and couldn't take care of him). Basically the story goes that our tort actually had a female "mate" until about 10 years ago when, in the care of my partner's dad, the mate got out, was hit by a car, rehabilitated by a vet-tech who found her, and then gave the mate to a family before it was discovered she belonged to someone who wanted her back. As a result, our tort went from always having a companion to being a solo tort. Fast forward to now, we have an insanely friendly tortoise who's desire/need for attention can not actually be met by my partner. We have a Russian tortoise who, true to his nature, wants nothing to do with the red-foot on the rare occasions the two have met (our RF is a bit of an escape artist and annoyingly intellegent at breaking through barriers). So, we've been thinking about getting another RF (I think we could only handle one more) but do not know what gender to get, how to ensure they both have space to be seprate when they need to, etc. and I wanted to see what y'all think.
P.S. we feel we'd need to get an adult for sure because our RF is large (15+ in) and has a big personality to boot.
P.S. we feel we'd need to get an adult for sure because our RF is large (15+ in) and has a big personality to boot.