Redfoot and yellowfoots together?

[Caboose]

Can a yellowfoot and a Redfoot live together in the same an enclosure and can they breed together.


My Sulcata Michelangelo[TURTLE]
and my RedFoot Raphael [TURTLE]

 

[Baoh]

Yes, they can to the first, if properly quarantined and everything looks good after evaluation, as they do meet in several parts of their natural range and without devastation. I have not yet seen a successful hybrid resulting from the second, however, and I am a little surprised by this due to how often people do indeed keep them together. The courtship behavior argument does not always hold up in practice, either. I have seen leopards mate and breed with redfoots in multiple instances and have had an ivory sulcata mate with a yellow foot at my home (and the yellow foot refused males of her own species; she also refused a male redfoot tortoise). People sometimes claim carbonaria x denticulata hybrids, but every case I have seen of this claim looks only like a case of either an oddly colored denticulata or a particularly non-red locale of carbonaria. Most (all) hybrid tortoises show more shared traits from both parents in my experience than that.

 

[kadyskepr]

I personally wouldn't suggest housing a redfoot and yellowfoot tougher as yellowfoots can get larger, faster; this can lead to bullying and a struggle for food for the smaller one. I would personally just avoid the possible stress, but that's just a personal opinion.

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