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But I have not come across this with iberas. Having kept up to three males with seven females. The same would apply to horsfields too, they are even worse when males together:0)
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Thank you all for advice.
I have put up some more obstacles and two sets of food. Watching them today they seem quite uninterested in each other so maybe it has helped - too early to tell I suspect. They are really romping around at quite a high speed and seem to be doing all the expected tortoisey things. My current thinking is that as they are only 9 weeks I will leave in the table for a little longer before ditching it for a new one and hopefully there will be peace on earth at least until they are a bit older. |
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Thank you all for your advice.
Things seem to be going a lot smoother now and although they still do a bit of head-butting each other it is less frequent as far as I can tell. Both of them are putting on weight slowly but steadily 1g about every 2 weeks |
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Most of the testudo greaca are known as spurthigh but there are quite a few of them and sometimes telling which one is which can be difficult. But like sandy says I think yours are testudo greaca ibera. |
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Putting on weight and eating is the most stressful for keepers, as they think their tortoises are starving:0) But they need to put on weight slowly:0)
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Horsfields are terrific at pecking biting ramming but I did manage to keep 5 males together for many many years without any issues, but once one little one went , Gomez the others seemed to vie for pecking order and sadly I had to part them. lots of good advice on here, if can keep together so they sort out pecking order then that's great at that age, I must admit my two tiny Horsfields are like velociprators at each other - and Gordon BTW I don't even have to clean the old bits of food out like the others cause they are piggy piggy piggy! so sweet , - but the hermanns just sit on one another ...not all that good if you are the smallest of course , CB
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