So I was looking for some forums about what are the effects of inbreeding in tortoise species and I wanted to know your guy’s thoughts and opinions on the subject. I have been looking it up a little bit and from what I had seen from strictly online subjects are the fact that when tortoises or any species inbreed it causes a result of recessive jeans. Now I know in the wild when young tortoises grow past their juvenile stage they will try to mate, but I couldn’t imagine that the hatchlings would travel very far from the original sight of birth, so I would think that inbreeding would happen fairly often in tortoises. The reason why the topic came up is because I have two leopard tortoises and I know they will probable be the same sex because of incubation temps, but by the off chance that they aren’t will I have to worry about them inbreeding.