Has anyone else even seen this?

[FireKing69]

lmao ya that would be a pretty bad ass dragon set up. you could probably house atleast 6 in there but i would try to stay away for putting males in. In my experiance, breeding age males are going to try and mate with your females non stop which can stress them out (not to mention mess them up physically, thats why i took roxy away from rex. the back of her head and neck was gettin all messed up cause my boy is a beast lol).

also, if you are gonna have a male in the tank i would only have 1. If you have more than one male theirs gonna be dominance issues and your dragons can possibly get injured or killed. Not to mention alotta times when a large male becomes dominant the other males will stop eating.

 

[foto69man]

Well when and if i ever build a house, that will be what i do...then have a storeroom/closet right behind it to get to the lights and everything

 

[Pipandmerlin]

Its very interesting hearing how people have very different views on keeping beardies together. Merlin is getting a 66x2x2 viv. I had liked the idea about getting him 2 females but my local reptile house told me to stick to just merlin and have another viv with a female if I wished. She said if they didnt get on it could be bad. So I have decided to stay with Merlin on his own. May get another in the future. Just dont want things to go wrong,

 

[spyder79]

No one should house a male and female/females together you will have a female that literally gets bred to death. But with a large enough viv you can house multiple females. But its not easy or suggested. i say every dragon should have its own home.

 

[midwestreptiles]

well on that note i think any one can agree that beardies are one of the most human-like pets out there, just like a cat or a dog. Some cats and dogs hate others and many love each other. i constantly see the girls licking each other and laying ontop of each other (basking and not basking, they even sleep together some times). if you were to see what i mean you'd understand, and i have plenty of customers from my store who buy them in pair and they get along great as long as theres plenty of food and space.

every one has different views on these kinda things and i think its a case by case kinda thing but personally, my girls get along great and they always have. and have never once shown any type of agression toward each other.

You realize that laying on top of each-other if not a sign of love but a sign that one is more dominant than the other! Its been a proven behavior for years

 

[FireKing69]

well on that note i think any one can agree that beardies are one of the most human-like pets out there, just like a cat or a dog. Some cats and dogs hate others and many love each other. i constantly see the girls licking each other and laying ontop of each other (basking and not basking, they even sleep together some times). if you were to see what i mean you'd understand, and i have plenty of customers from my store who buy them in pair and they get along great as long as theres plenty of food and space.

every one has different views on these kinda things and i think its a case by case kinda thing but personally, my girls get along great and they always have. and have never once shown any type of agression toward each other.

You realize that laying on top of each-other if not a sign of love but a sign that one is more dominant than the other! Its been a proven behavior for years

well theres different opinions about that aswell. In my case, they all take turns doing it. The only thing they've ever gotten close to fighting over is food. Dee is a glutton and wants to eat everything so if when i give them fuzzys she usually downs hers and trys to steal some one else's but even if they try taking food from each other they dont show personal agression, only to smaller bugs and things i give them to eat. Trust me when i say that they do like each other, lol if u see the way they act some times you'd be amazed. they always walk up to each other and lick each other on the nose. Dee and Sasha do it most of all because they grew up together for the most part, and roxy is so happy that i got her from her previous situation she'll put up with anything. All three of them are little [word removed by moderator] but i love em all lol


....but rex will always be my favorite, hes my first and my only boy.

 

[midwestreptiles]

Trust me i know what interactions your talking about i have juvie and sub adult females together and some time alone. I however dont think a male should ever be with females unless breeding. I have two females that were raised together and see the same things you do but i dont think its love just natural behavior's from being domesticated in my opinion. Some time i can have two females subadults in a 6' tank sometime 3 depends on the female. i have an older adult female that has not grown up with another female and she will show more bobbing and arm waiving. i generally hand feed them they're roaches to ensure they get equal amounts. I believe some females can be together and some are just too dominant. Still don't know about the lovin though :?:

 

[lvnnascar]

I have two girls or thats what I was told when I got them at three week old. The smaller one likes to lay ontop of the bigger one, but I haven't see either of them try to hurt each other, I see them lick/ kiss each other but that is it. They were in the same container when I got them so.... the only thing that is going on is that one is growing alot faster than the other. Good luck.

 

[sweetiepie9]

I guess it just depends on the beardie's personality. We have 5 beardies, 4 are rescues. When they were little, especially our two babies (who are now 1 1/2 yrs old) they were together in one tank. But my husband is retired, so he kept an eye on them. When they were 4 mo old, they were put in different tanks. I always thought the 3 females would get along, but they can't stand each other. We give them each time to roam our living room, which is completely beardie proofed. One day I decided to see how Angel, Sweetie and Issy would manage out together. Sweetie, who's the oldest at 3 yrs old, tongue pushed the other two. Issy, our youngest, ran at Angel with her beard puffed out and her mouth wide open, trying to bite her. Angel had the same reaction. So that was the end of that!

We also have two males, Lonzo is 6 yrs old and Rubio is 1 1/2 yrs old. Lonzo was having trouble being out of his tank, he didn't eat for 2 mo, he was just so turned on by the three girls. So Lonzo has his own room (our office) and never sees the other 4. Rubio enjoys bobbing & black bearding the girls and it doesn't affect his appetite. Even so, his tank is in the dining room & the three girls tanks are side by side along the living room wall, so when they're all in their tanks they can't see each other. It's all normal beardie behaviour, I just didn't want to take any chance that they'd hurt each other. I also won't allow them to breed, we don't have the $ or the space to take care of babies.

You're right, everyone has their own opinion. I've just seem some really nasty bites, and sometimes it's babies biting babies. Issy only has 1/2 a tail because she was attacked by another baby while at a pet shop, we got her out of there the minute I laid eyes on her. Rubio was also attacked as a baby, he's missing most of the digits on his right front & back paws. It hasn't stopped him from eating, but he sure was tiny when I found him at the bottom of his tank at the same pet shop. So that's how we got our two babies. They're both fine now, but had to be nursed alot when we first got them. Rubio is now 22" long and 750g; Issy, without her full tail, is 14" long & 418grams. So having them in separate tanks worked for us. Depends on the situation.

 

[lvnnascar]

Thanks you for your story. I have kept an eye on them and they seem to be fine, just one eats more than the other..like you said it depends on the situation and the dragons.

 

[foto69man]

Dee is a glutton and wants to eat everything so if when i give them fuzzys she usually downs hers and trys to steal some one else's but even

You feed them fuzzys...? Could have sworn that was highly frowned upon and definitley never suggested? :study:

 

[mich]

I bought my hatchlings from the same breeder but from different parents so they wouldn't be related and I could have different morphs. They were in the same viv for about 6 months and doing great. I then upgarded and built 2 seperate vivs. Once one viv was done I moved them both from their shared tank into the larger viv for the night, just until I finished installing the UVB lights in my 2nd viv the next day. My dargons are opposit sex and when put in the new environment the male snapped. He rushed the female and and bit her! :shock: I was shocked and of course pulled her right out. They coexist perfectly fine when they are in the bath or tromping around on the floor (always supervised of course) but I'm very thankful I had built 2 adult sized vivs because housing them together went bad fast as I figured eventually it would.

 

[vickson420]

Dee is a glutton and wants to eat everything so if when i give them fuzzys she usually downs hers and trys to steal some one else's but even

You feed them fuzzys...? Could have sworn that was highly frowned upon and definitley never suggested? :study:

You are correct.Occasionally pinkies can be fed to a gravid female to help bulk her up between clutches but fuzzies should never be fed.The risk of impaction from that is ridiculously high not to mention the fat content is almost a certain guarentee of fatty liver disease which shortens the beardies life span greatly.

 

[Twobeardieguy]

I also agree!

 

[HYPORollo]

ok i must chime in here i know fireking he is a realy good friend of mine who just joined the site after i asked him to 1000s times he works at a pet store that i go to to get feeders for my snakes and he is in charge of the reptile section and i can honestly tell you if you guys walked in there yoiu would be proud of the set up and info he gives out not like petco or petsmart at all and before he gives out any info he isnt sure of he calls me and ask me my input instead of misleading some one like most pet store employees but he is on here to learn new and better ways to care for his highly loved animals trust me when i tell you he does anything and everything to ensure thier health and happieness everything he does is with good intent as far as the fuzzies lol they are pinkies with alittle bit a hair lol trust me i buy them for my snakes and i allways complain cause the sell pinkies as fuzzies so i have to buy two per snake to make up for a fuzzie it sucks but i have told him about the dangers about this and he has cut back and joined the site him self to do his own research and also the with the housing of his female dragons i have seen everything he said about them licking eachother and loving eachother its the wierdest thing to see but true lol but please he joined the site because i asked him to a bunch of times so except and help him learn the way to becoming a great beardie slave like the rest of us he likes to learn and passes on what he learns ok im done now sorry for the hijack of the post i just had to let you guys know where he came from since he joined under my advice lol :mrgreen: :mrgreen: