HippieLizards":2hddcaff said:Hello,
Very cute beardie! I hope he thrives under your care!
But I would highly advise against letting the bigger dragon near the baby dragon as they are sometimes cannibalistic and the bigger dragon might eat the baby beardie. I would recommend not letting them near each other at ALL. Because next time you may not be so lucky.
This video informs a few more reasons why not to let an adult beardie near a baby beardie(not my video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CgoxUHcTpk
-HippieLizards.
VenusAndSaturn":8avomvav said:I thought the same thing when I bought my two eldest beardies, about a month in or so got them out sat them down on my bed and the next thing I know my female bites down hard on the others head. If he wasn't so frightened, in pain and submissive he probably would have fought back and then died because she would have bit down harder killing him and I would have buried him in the backyard at only 6 months of age.
They are not like us, they are not social animals, they are solitary animals and they are cannibalistic and when they want to they will turn on each other and fight to the death without any signs at all.
Keeping two animals that only come together for fighting or mating is practically animal abuse in all honesty, not trying to be rude but it is. Lets say your very anti-social and one day a sudden stranger, thats also anti-social gets tossed into your very small room. Your probably not going to like that because there is no escaping that person. And you may end up killing them or you yourself will be killed because as tension and stress builds like it or not we ourselves will lash out just like an animal will, because we are animals. It may not even be from violence, it may be from starvation or dehydration.
HippieLizards":8wp0a9ww said:I Agree with VenusandSaturn. Even though I do Occasionally let one or two beardies out together, but ones normally being held and the other free roams. But normally it's just one out for an hour or more then the next dragon gets an hour of free time and so on.
But I definitely advise against letting your adult beardie near the baby beardie. They Have to be in separate enclosures for their whole lives.
-HippieLizards.
VenusAndSaturn":31jyhthg said:Hopefully your beardie will recover... at least it was in a more open area where Rocket could get away and you guys could intervene. If they were still together in a small enclosure with far more limited space I'm sure the injuries would be much worse.
Have you taken her to a vet yet?
If not please do, no home remedies will fix this...
http://www.anapsid.org/vets/#vetlist
This is a pretty good site for finding a proper reptile vet.