Please help! (do tortoises eat tortoise?)

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cmitch

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My adult female redfoot is with my juvenile redfoot she is much larger my bf freaked me out said "what if she eats marley" that doesent happen right
 

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Ha ha she wont actually eat her whole just a leg here and there. Totally kidding :D ;). I would keep them separate if there is a huge size difference because they can get quite testy sometimes with each other if there is only two of them and with her being much bigger there would most likely be a case of bullying going on.
 

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Eweezyfosheezy said:
Ha ha she wont actually eat her whole just a leg here and there. Totally kidding :D ;). I would keep them separate if there is a huge size difference because they can get quite testy sometimes with each other if there is only two of them and with her being much bigger there would most likely be a case of bullying going on.

Here they are together marley is not scared of her at all i dont have anything right this sec to seperate them :(
 

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I would also seperate. If the larger one decides to bully the smaller one, it could be really bad with that size difference.
 

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I'd separate them if bullying starts. But for now they are fine. Those are some really nice Red Foot's :)
 

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Wow your adult is so smooth! Did you raise him?
I don't have any advice about separating them. I'm not there to see how they are doing. I'm assuming the smaller the indoor enclosure is the higher chance of bullying would occur.
 

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It took a few days for mine to get along. The smaller one...Solo...would bob her head and try to bite Pio....the larger one's....leg. After a few days they were fine and spent most of the Summer outside in the garden together. Just my experience, not saying it would be OK for yours.
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Def separate while they cannot be supervised! The larger 1 could hurt the smaller 1 even by accident...I'd wait til they were a bit closer in size...mine have their moments with each other (and the smallest 1 is def the bully, little guy syndrome I don't know) but they have enough space to get away from each other and I've provided 8 hides for the 3 of them, so there is always someplace to get away!

Oh I should add that the size dif. btw my guys is much less than yours (11" is my "little" guy)
 
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