General Care Discussion :: Strange behaviour?

[anon94837]

Hello, I've had a male and female for almost a year. At first everything went fine but the male (left side on the video) keeps smelling her and doing this dance with the head all day, and then she tries to bite him. Is it a normal behaviour? Are they playing? He sometimes also goes from behind, climbs her up and tries to bite her head from behind

I am kind of relative new to turtles, here it is a link for the video:

[youtube]https://youtu.be/u2Khnj0DS7k[/youtube]

Thanks

[steve]

Are those both RES? If they are, they look like they have been overfed way too much as the shells are not to have such a high dome appearance. As for that kind of behavior, it will not really subside and only escalate. You need to have separate enclosures for them.