Mixing tortoises

[adammc1982]

What is peoples opinion on mixing different sizes of tortoise? I have a six year old hermans and was thinking a getting another youngster. Do you think they would get on?

 

[Yvonne G]

Hi adammc1982:

First of all you have to have a quarantine period. It really is best if you don't put a small baby in with a larger tortoise because tortoises don't care what's in their way...they just bulldoze over it and don't go around it. A baby might be injured if that happens. If you're talking about a larger tortoise, but smaller than the existing tortoise, it might be ok. You would just have to try it to see how it works out. And since you already have a quarantine set up, you can always separate them if they fight. You never know. Its an individual tortoise thing.

 

[tortoises101]

John on TFO (Shelly) had an adult male desert tortoise living with a male juvenile. It worked out in the beginning, but once they grew up they had to be seperated due to extreme aggression.