what kind of torts were you housing together when you lost them?

when you see agressiveness in something you are housing together its kind of a no brainer that you need to seperate that. like you; i have a golden greek that is just bruital towards others. one day during the winter of 05 i observed him repeatidly ramming one of my spurrthighs (female 4lb), look on you tube under turtle fights and there is one displaying similar behavure. so he is now in a better place. just kidding! he is in my room living it up how he likes it. i have never seen spurred torts being aggressive towards each other its been not an issue thus far for me. cross that bridge when it comes. the temp. was supposed to drop here in houston tonight so i checked the thermostate in the shed to make sure it was in working order and was laying in the grass today with the large spurrs when i thought of putting my male burmese 11lbs in with the large spurrthighs. so i did. i observed them and about a half hour into it i was offering them both some carrots and the burm started grunting and head bobing. i have seen this behavure before when he persues females so i watched out of curiosity to see if it was it or if he was being aggressive. his mannerisms were typical burm mtn tort. mateing stuff except one thing he raised his body way high this i had never seen and could be a sign of aggressiveness. needless to say everybody to their regular spots.

now as far as reds and spurrs together my reds and spurrs are fed seporately. sulcs eat mostely grass anyways and fruit is offered only in portions that my reds will eat in about a half hour or so. now as far as the protien my reds eat that so fast that the sulcs never know its there. i dont even know that the rate and eagerness that they accept it is normal. i limit their intake of protien to one ten minuite meal a week and an occasional minnow here there. there humidity requirements are met with mulch that i wet once a week or as needed the sulcatas will go in the mulch too but i dont see it as a problem. they stay mostly either i a burrow or under a wood crate. indoors yes i will admit i have seen corphagousfrom a red to a spurr. outdoors i have never seen this and i am out there a lot. reguardless its always good to take a sample to the vet every now and again. i personally dont believe in keeping wc torts. i have friends that do and it dosent bother me.

what signs did you start noticing when you lost thoes torts? i have lost torts too for various reasons. in 04 i lost a greek ( one of a pair) we live and learn. its what keeps having captive torts. interesting.

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