safety question

[Blgreek08]

My redfoots are about 3.5 inches, my new baby cherry head is about one inch, when would it be safe to keep them together, because I tried just to see and it was like he was a rock. He wouldn't come out of his shell and they both walked around and over him like he was a rock. I got concerned and removed him

 

[Yvonne G]

I don't like to keep young babies with older tortoises, even slightly bigger/older, because of the danger of the bigger tortoises pushing the smaller one around, sitting on him and just bowling him over.

 

[DobbyRed]

I have my two reds seperated do to the same reason, differential in size is too much. Try once to put them together and Dobby almost bite one of Hedwigs legs.

 

[Michael in MO]

however unless you want seperate enclosures forever I'd try to have supervised interactions as frequent as possible. Perhaps even switch the enclosures every once in a while