biting!!!!

[TANK]

hi everyone, i have had a baby tortoise who is one for a year now, but recently i have just got a new baby tortoise and my one year old one keep going up to her and trying to bite her the other day i went to cheak on the and she had her mouth around the babys head, but today when i was watching she was still trying too bite her though she has started putting her i her shell now, i have split there pen into two now, she is alot more active than usual since i have got my new tort but i was wondering if there is any way i can get them yoo get along

thanks

p.s i have only keep putting them together too see if they will get along, and have been watching them all the time they are together, plus i know the one year old could feel as if it is her terriroiry (sp?) and doesnt want her in it!

[Becks]

hi there
it could be any reasons ..
but i will add that if u have just got a new tort they sould be kept seprate for atleast 6months
b4 putting them together anyways..
sorry cant help much more u are best keeping them apart as u are
luv becks xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[TANK]

thanks becks

[Maude]

Having same problems with new tortoise. It only likes one of my older ones and not the other. Someone has said it might well be a male and they are definitely more terratorial. I just keep the younger one on its own as that's the one causing the problems for the older ones. Are they both the same kind of breed as this is often a problem.

[piglet]

Hi Heather don't no why your older tortoise is being aggressive to your smaller one strange behaviour for such a young animal.
These two are siblings bred by me folks just one is older so quarantine was though to be unnecessary.
Darren

[TANK]

Having same problems with new tortoise. It only likes one of my older ones and not the other. Someone has said it might well be a male and they are definitely more terratorial. I just keep the younger one on its own as that's the one causing the problems for the older ones. Are they both the same kind of breed as this is often a problem.

there both female and same type testdu graeca graeca

[piglet]

Heather
They were incubated at 32.f so female is what we are hoping they will be .they are testudu graeca ibera the same as your adult male Tank
Darren

[TANK]

ok thanks darren i always though the were testdu graeca graeca thanks for telling me :lol: hopfully they are both girls its just she is quite agressive like trying to get out of her pen more and rapidly running around! i dont think this is normal for a tortoise of her age
thanks

[piglet]

Heather which ones running around.
There paper work says testudo greaca as all mediterranean spur thighed are classed as this under defra law
Darren

[TANK]

ok my bigger baby is the one that keeps running around, the one that is biting

[piglet]

Heather don't no sorry all i can say is this behaviour is usually associated with male behaviour when introduced to a female or other tortoise then the other tortoise is removed he will go mad searching for it, but as yours is only 1yr old i doubt that .
Some one else more experienced may be able to help as i certainly have never seen this in such a young tortoise before.
As said you will have to keep seperate if it continues or the stress will make them both sickly.
Darren

[TANK]

ok my new baby one seems fine and i think that after a couple of days my bigger one will calm down a bit, i was thinking do you think that she just thinks that she's smells of food or somthing and she just is trying too eat her :lol: but it's just the crazy running around thats confusing me!