Russian and indian star living together

[forujade00]

My daughter has a Russian and I want to get an Indian Star. Would there be a problem with them living together in the tortoise table?

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[Yvonne G]

Yup, there sure would be.

Russian tortoises are very aggressive little guys and he would more than likely beat your new tortoise up. Sometimes into a bloody mess.

Also, tortoises from different continents that would have not opportunity to ever meet in the wild, carry different pathogens inside them from each other and those pathogens might make the other tortoise sick or even dead.

 

[GBtortoises]

As well as being from very different natural environments and having different care requirements.

 

[Baoh]

I would not recommend this.

 

[Tom]

It's unanimous. I vote against it too.

Both are great species. Can you just set up a second enclosure?

 

[Baoh]

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As well as being from very different natural environments and having different care requirements.

I find this to not be of a particularly great challenge.

 

[mikeh]

Re: RE: Russian and indian star living together

As well as being from very different natural environments and having different care requirements.

I find this to not be of a particularly great challenge.

Speaking of irrelevant, how is the last comment relevant to the OP?

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[Baoh]

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As well as being from very different natural environments and having different care requirements.

I find this to not be of a particularly great challenge.

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Speaking of irrelevant, how is the last comment relevant to the OP?

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The care parameters not being a challenge (at least to me) may indeed be relevant to the OP.

 

[forujade00]

Thank you all.

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[GBtortoises]

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As well as being from very different natural environments and having different care requirements.

I find this to not be of a particularly great challenge.
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Have you kept both species for any length of time?

 

[Irish]

I agree with Yvonne; she pretty much summed it up. Would it be possible? Sure.
Is it a good idea to keep both species together? There is a likely downside if you do, and so why risk it?

 

[peasinapod]

AW: Russian and indian star living together

Wouldn't you need two enclisures anyways for the quarantine period? From there on you could just continue keeping them separately as the work of building an enclosure is already done.

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