Elnewman622
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Thankyou so very much this is very helpful to knowGreeks are highly aggressive. I've had my Greek for over twenty years, and he attacks anything that even resembles a tortoise. Now, you could get a second tortoise, but you would have to set him up in his own individual enclosure. Don't get me wrong. You can put them together occasionally for supervised visits, but these visits will most likely turn into boxing matches. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. I keep marginated tortoises, and this time of year, the males tend to get a little down in the dumps, grazing less and whatnot. I find that if I introduce them into a neutral grazing area for a few minutes, they see each other, get in each other's faces, and chase each other around a bit. I always make sure that things don't get out of hand (I play tortoise referee, if you will). Once they have both gotten a good whiff of one another, I remove them to their respective enclosures. Usually, the males liven up quite a bit after this, and both of them march about their quarters, confident that they've chased off the intruder. This usually gets them grazing and patrolling. When it comes to my Greek, he is the only one in my group, so I usually introduce an empty turtle shell an uncle of mine got me as a gift (he's an idiot, but the gift actually proved useful). Once Graecus has put the beatdown on the empty shell, I remove it, and he patrols the enclosure like an angry alpha chimp.
Whatever you do, don't keep the tortoises together for any length of time unsupervised. Some folks keep a single male and multiple females together (multiple meaning three or more) in a large enclosure (large meaning an enclosure in excess of forty square feet, and preferably double or quadruple that size), but keeping more than one male per enclosure is risky. One animal will inevitably bully the other, and the less dominant animal will fail to thrive. You can try keeping the two males together. Many on this forum have. But make sure to have a separate habitat available in case they don't get along, which they most likely will not.
T.G.