The time to worry is if she starts biting - don’t want to worry you but they can take heads off. Just keep an eye on it and try and separate them if it looks to be chronic bullying or intimidation. From what I’ve read, sitting on food, staring, following and crowding are bullying behaviours. If...
Definitely not! It went on for about 10 minutes until she lost him in the hedge. He had to have a bit of time to himself afterwards - if a tortoise could ever look gutted, he was
Have been laughing so much at this thread! Have been in Corfu, and the villa we stayed at had a load of Hermanns, we saw at least three adults and a juvenile wandering around- it was ace! I took a video of one of em trying to get lucky (I felt just like David Attenborough!) but don’t know how...
Hi,
My Hermann loves lambs lettuce and magnolia flowers with a fiery passion. She’s head down like someone let off a diet at a buffet - I don’t think she actually breathes while she’s eating. Second favourites are clover, pansy/viola flowers, plantain and dandelion.
Hi again,
I agree about the substrate. My set up was similar to yours when I got my little one last year, because I went to the pet shop - what a mistake. After a lot of research and reading what was on this forum and looking at other people’s set ups, I changed to a mixture of topsoil, coconut...
Hi,
You might want to deepen your substrate so they can dig down. My little Hermann likes to dig down at night, which is what they would naturally do in the wild.