We have a 3-4 year old Sulcata, 6 year old Sulcata and roughly a 8-9 year old Sulcata. The 6 year old male is getting rammed by the 8-9 year old female. Is this something we need to be worried about? Unknown if the 3-4 year Sulcata is a male or female yet. If it is a male, we will part with it since i know the males will fight with the female present. Why would the male be getting rammed by the female? Friend suggests it is a girl control thing.

I wish that I could tell you why but I just wanted to say that I love the picture!!! The three are sooo... cute together.
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This post was last modified: 04-22-2008 12:54 PM by drgnfly2265.

Sometimes Sulcatas can live together peacefully with no animosity towards each other regardless of sex (two males...two females...a male/female), and then every so often you get that bully that just plain wants the other torts out of its enclosure. In the real world, tortoises are solitary creatures, only coming together to breed. They don't like to have to share the best hiding place or share the food. Your 8-9 year old tortoise wants to be alone. It really doesn't matter what sex the younger one is, the older one wants the younger one out of there.

Yvonne