Advice moving forward

Stuart S.

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Im the past I’ve posted videos of my younger Sulcata chasing my larger one around and it was “cute” at the time but the tables have turned. I posted a picture yesterday under my Spur the Sulcata thread of him mounting the younger. I separated them immediately. Today I brought the younger back outside to see what would happen and as soon as he saw her from across the yard he bolted towards her wanting to get after it again but I didn’t let him and he actually started getting aggressive just to get to her. He would charge her, bite, anything to get to her.

I’m expecting Stella to grow significantly this summer but she’s currently about 650-700 grams while Spur is bumping 10 lbs. I was thinking she would be ready to move outside size wise by the end of summer but I wanted to ask you senior veterans if it would even be right to keep them together later on at all? Or will this just be a constant thing? Our yard is big enough for 2 and it has plenty of visual barriers but at the same time. I don’t want one to be bullied into stress...
 

TechnoCheese

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Tortoises (especially sulcatas) shouldn’t be kept in pairs even with a large enclosure, so I would definitely keep them separate. Even if they didn’t attack each other, all it would cause is stress.
 
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