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RE: Introducing Russian Torts?

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Posted by: bradtort at Thu Feb 9 12:46:52 2006  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bradtort ]  
   

I've kept two males together with two females in an 8'x8' enclosure. Lots of places to hide, rocks and logs to break up the line of site.

And yet they still go at it every once in awhile. And they are father and son. When the offspring was only one or two years old and appeared to be female, the father left it alone. But once his tail took on the characteristic size and thickness of an adult male, the old man came after him. And they don't fight fair. Biting at the face, shell ramming, high speed pursuit :->

I worry about the stress levels so I've taken to keeping them in separate pens. I want to rebuild my main pen this year and maybe get rid of the side pen, but then I have to deal with the 2-male problem.

So I'd recommend that you should be prepared to keep them separately. Maybe trade some of those males in for females!


   

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