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how many russians can an outdoor 5x5ft enclosure support?

>>how many russians can an outdoor 5x5ft enclosure support?

I had an 8x8 outdoor pen and found that 1 male, 2 females, and one juvenile were OK. Until the juvenile matured into a male and had to be separated.

With 5x5 I would just go for one pair of animals. Especially if they are wild caught. They once roamed the plains of Central Asia - 25 sq ft will be hard to adapt to.

I have two captive bred (from my wild caught stock) russians that I will place into a 4x4 pen next year. They've spent their entire lives indoors in enclosures no larger than 7 sq ft (with short stays outside in a mesh enclosure) and don't claw at the corners like wild caught specimens do. I will also try to create as interesting an environment as I can. Things to crawl under and over, basking and shade, rocks and plants, etc.

well right now they have a 10x10 but i want to seperate it into quarters to get some diffrent speicies or halves for some larger speicies. not like the giant ones but some that may be a little larger.

My pair are housed in an 8x4 pen when kept outdoors, and are currently housed in a five by two cattle trough indoors while the weather is too cold and wet right now. I think the 5x5 would be fine for the pair. However, a large redfoot, juvie sulcata, or something similar in size would probably need the entire half (10x5). Maybe separate into three pens, each 10x3. The lenght may help with them finding shadier/sunnier, or drier/moister areas better.