Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:41 pm
Females turtles have no motherly instinct. They lay their eggs and they're job is done--they leave the covered nest and don't return or try to protect it as some other animals do. So, I don't think it's an issue if the hatchling were separated from the mother (in the wild the eggs would hatch on their own and the hatchlings would have to fend for themselves). You would not want to keep turtles of greatly different sizes together as well.
"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." -Antoine de Saint Exupery-
