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My female RES is twice the size of my male RES and she usually bosses him around but since this spring he has started to bite her neck and her tail. He has done his mating dance thing before, she is none reseptive, she is only 3 years old. They have been together for the last two years with no problems. They are in a tank now that is twice the size of their old one, I thought that this would help. He now gets her in the cornor and bites her neck as she swims around the tank and he now hangs on, most the skin behind her head is now raw and pink. I don't know what else I can try other than seperate them. Any advice???

Nothing u have to seperate them

I'm not sure what to say since I've never had my turtles fight that bad where you can actually see the wounds. I have 2 males and at first my little RES bit the bigger one like the way you were talking about it. But lately my bigger RES has been beating up on the small one! It seems to have turned around as of late... I don't know why is that.

Of course having a male and female may be different. Perhaps you can't keep the 2 together or maybe its just a phase. When my turtles were younger they'd mess around like that too but now their 6 years old they rarely ever bite each other unless its fighting for food (even though theres more then one lol)

I have a m and f res and they don't fight. could be because they are in a pond.

you are prolly doing something for the female and not doin it for the male... it could be actin out of jealousy or maybe it could be a phase just watch how you interact if you do for one do for the other