Personally, from an animal welfare perspective, I would recommend against keeping so many closely related animals together. They may, and ultimately will in many cases, stress each other out. These are pretty aggressive turtles and they may or may not lose toes due to fighting or being mobbed. Even if they don't fight, they may have too high stress levels due to the presence of others. My theory is based in part on personal behavioral observations, and in part from the observation that friends' Kinosternids that were being kept together produced much less eggs than mine (being kept singly) -- I expect egg laying in adults to be a good welfare parameter.

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