Will anyone please share experiences and/or knowledge of female California Desert Tortoises living together? Thanks.
Female CDT's
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Most of the time they get along fine. Pairs can be problematic, but even then it often works out with a large enough yard and multiple burrows.
I have several females and one male CDT in a pen together. There are two hiding places and about 2000 square feet of grass area for them. I never see any discord among the tortoises.
No females here....all the rowdy men folk 
wander these grounds....lol..
wander these grounds....lol..
My females all get along fine! 
Experts, wondering ...
Would there ever be a concern when introducing a long term captive and lone kept CDT to a new environment with other CDT(s) that one or the other would do some harm with hidden/unknown mycoplasma organism? Do the experts and/or CTTC members quarantine CDTs when bringing them in for fostering? Do CDT take-ins get tested or is the ELISA test still only being done in Florida? (I read that at some point). At a CTTC meeting I attended several months ago it was shared that several CDTs had died while waiting to be adopted and I wondered then as I am now if the mycoplasma, with the stress of a new environment, was harbored in the body and suddenly presented itself from the stress of being uprooted/habitat changes, and killed them. I know Dr. Mary Brown has said in lectures that horizontal transmission is triggered immensely by stress. Best be safe, than sorry and sad. Your thoughts?
Would there ever be a concern when introducing a long term captive and lone kept CDT to a new environment with other CDT(s) that one or the other would do some harm with hidden/unknown mycoplasma organism? Do the experts and/or CTTC members quarantine CDTs when bringing them in for fostering? Do CDT take-ins get tested or is the ELISA test still only being done in Florida? (I read that at some point). At a CTTC meeting I attended several months ago it was shared that several CDTs had died while waiting to be adopted and I wondered then as I am now if the mycoplasma, with the stress of a new environment, was harbored in the body and suddenly presented itself from the stress of being uprooted/habitat changes, and killed them. I know Dr. Mary Brown has said in lectures that horizontal transmission is triggered immensely by stress. Best be safe, than sorry and sad. Your thoughts?
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