Redfoot vs cherry head
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It's perfectly fine for them to live together...and every tortoise has a different personality, but all the cherry heads are is a different color mutation of a normal red foot.
Generally they should get along fine, but I've heard cherryfoot males can be more territorial. It might make more sense to just get another redfoot.
They have the same colors, lol!
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How dare you ..... < grin > ....ALDABRAMAN said:
Yes they can be housed together.......
JD~
N2TORTS said:How dare you ..... < grin > ....ALDABRAMAN said:
Yes they can be housed together.......
JD~
HAHA thats funny.
They are perfectly fine together. Cherryheads just differ in respects of coming from brazil and portraying the super red colored head and marbling on their shells. Your northern redfoot("normal" redfoot) will come from venezuela,suriname,guyana,columbia,central america, and some islands like grenada, tinidad tabago, corn islands, etc... SO blah blah blah from my end. Yes have at it.
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cmitch said:N2TORTS said:How dare you ..... < grin > ....ALDABRAMAN said:
Yes they can be housed together.......
JD~
Lol ok cause I want one
Well you've come to the right place ...... I got um!
Cherry Heads are still a RF, technically. Just a type of them. RF's do good together. Unlike some torts, such as Russians, whom are hardly a social tort, RFs don't seem to mind company.
'Cherry-heads' are currently considered a color morph of the Eastern or Brazilian variant of the red-footed tortoise, but there are DNA differences within the red-footeds, so they may be recognized as either species or subspecies in the near future.
One reason for this is that there IS a difference in the typical behavior- most red-footeds are very non-confrontational except during mating, but both of the variants from south of the Amazon are more territorial and confrontational.
Not to the point it causes any real problems most of the time though- especially as they also average a bit smaller than the northern variants and in general, for red-footeds of all types, the biggest is usually boss.
One reason for this is that there IS a difference in the typical behavior- most red-footeds are very non-confrontational except during mating, but both of the variants from south of the Amazon are more territorial and confrontational.
Not to the point it causes any real problems most of the time though- especially as they also average a bit smaller than the northern variants and in general, for red-footeds of all types, the biggest is usually boss.
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