Hi, First time tortoise owner!

TechnoCheese

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They are Brothers and have been together for the past 12 years, I have been watching them a lot to see if they are appear happy together or not, and they spend a lot of time together, walking around, sleeping, eating, soaking and they are very relaxed with each other so may be strange for them if they were suddenly separated?
They do love tomatoes and strawberries but since reading more about their diet I have only given as a rare treat and given them mainly weeds, they are not so excited about these!
When I came home today, they had filled their water bowel with mud and were covered in it, I don't know if they did this Intentionally, is this normal behaviour and something they enjoy doing do you think, it has been very warm today?

Sadly, what you just described is tortoise aggression. “Spending a lot of time with each other”, “cuddling”, standing on the food, “following”, sitting face to face, are all one tortoise trying to stress the other out of their territory.
 

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