I was wondering about adopting another tortoise but wanted to find out if you thought this was a good idea and obviously didn't want it to have a detrimental effect on Timmy.  What advice could you offer please?  I think we have enough space, we have a fully enclosed garden about 100 square metres.  Should we get another male? I'm thinking we shouldn't have a female as I'm not wanting to breed them.  Or are they perfectly happy as solitary creatures?

Any advice appreciated.

1.  There are quite a number of species of  spur' torts., they can't be mixed as they can't tolerate each others bugs.

2. Males can fight very aggressively.

3. They are more interesting in 2s, but in this case after [say] 50 years 'in solitary' it would be best to leave him alone.

Tom